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U.S. Healthcare Reform: Reaction to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
Daemmrich, Arthur A.Case HBS-711103-EEconomicsSupplement to "U.S. Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives," HBS No. 710-040, updating key events and disputes concerning the reform law, including the 2010 Congressional elections, legislative proposals, legal challenges, and responses by employers.Starting at €8.20
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Divided We Stand: Gay Marriage Rulings and Official Disobedience
Winig, Laura; Robichaud, ChristopherCase HBS-KS1199-EOn June, 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the federal Defense of Marriage Act violated the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection of equal liberty, effectively overturning the law. Pennsylvania, however, banned same-sex marriage. Despite the state law, D. Bruce Hanes, a register of wills in Pennsylvania, agreed to honor a request from two women seeking a same-sex marriage license-an act of official disobedience that immedi...Starting at €8.20
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Money & Morals: The Minimum Wage and the American South
Varley, Pamela; Robichaud, ChristopherCase HBS-KS1233-EEconomicsIn 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama called on Congress to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10. To the surprise of no one, Congressional Republicans blocked the move, as they had a similar proposal the year before. Seeing little hope of federal action, wage activists turned their sights on state and local governments. Riding a tide of popular support, dozens of jurisdictions voted in hikes in their own state and city mini...Starting at €8.20
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Hero or Traitor Edward Snowden and the NSA Spying Program
Winig, Laura; Robichaud, ChristopherCase HBS-HKS798-EEconomicsOn June 5, 2013, a London newspaper reported that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers in the U.S. The story was the first of many top secret revelations about the NSA's spying programs, leaked by Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor. The case examines Snowden's actions and motivations and asks students to consider the repercussions of whistleblowing/leaking on t...Starting at €8.20
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A Managerial Perspective on Clinical Trials
Daemmrich, Arthur A.Case HBS-709033-EEntrepreneurshipThis note describes the history and regulation of clinical trials, managerial challenges related to pharmaceutical product testing, and current debates regarding prescription drug safety. Since clinical testing takes between five and seven years, and consumes up to 70 percent of a drug's total development costs, pharmaceutical and biotechnology leaders need to understand clinical trial management. Likewise, with a growing variety of new product i...Starting at €8.20
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Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target, Teaching Note
Daemmrich, Arthur A.Teaching Note HBS-710006-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note for [709002].Starting at €0.00
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Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change (Abridged)
Daemmrich, Arthur A.Case HBS-711050-EArcadia Biosciences is seeking to introduce genetically modified rice to China that will lower farmers' costs and generate environmental benefits through reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The case describes challenges facing this small agricultural biotechnology company, notably uneven enforcement of intellectual property in emerging market countries, and uncertainty regarding the provision and market value of carbon credits under international c...Starting at €8.20
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Role Responsibility, Official Disobedience, and the Supreme Court's Ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, Teaching Plan
Robichaud, Christopher; Winig, LauraTeaching Note HBS-KS1177-EEconomicsTeaching plan for case HKS793. In June, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the federal Defense of Marriage Act violated the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection of equal liberty, effectively overturning the law. Pennsylvania, however, banned same-sex marriage. Despite the state law, D. Bruce Hanes, a register of wills in Pennsylvania, agreed to honor a request from two women seeking a same-sex marriage license-an act of offici...Starting at €0.00
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Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target
Daemmrich, Arthur A.Case HBS-709002-EEntrepreneurshipThis case explores regulatory, product testing, and business strategy at Targanta Therapeutics, a biotech company preparing its first new drug application to the FDA. In October 2007, Mark Leuchtenberger, president and CEO of Targanta - which has just held a successful IPO - weighs options for the approximately ten month review period after the company submits to the Food and Drug Administration. The case reviews Targanta's origins and "de-riskin...Starting at €8.20
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Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change
Daemmrich, Arthur A.; Reinhardt, Forest L.; Shelman, MaryCase HBS-709019-EArcadia Biosciences is an entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September, 2008. The company had a plan to share carbon credits allocated by the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to China, for use of Arcadia's rice varieties, since they enabled farme...Starting at €8.20