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Improving Health Care Access for the Poor: A Case Study of the Washington DC Public Health Care System Reforms (A)
Pate M. A.; Abramson, W.; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1046-EService and Operations ManagementThe Major of Washington must decide how to restructure the health care of the District of Columbia, which has suffered from severe financial crisis. The availability of resources contrasts with its poor health outcomes. The main provider of health care to the uninsured, the Health and Hospitals Public Benefit Corporation is forecasted to exhaust its FY2001 subsidy by the middle of March. A commission has submitted its recommendations, which inclu...Starting at €8.20
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Movies online (B)
Rata, Cristina; Ariño, Miguel Angel; Baucells Alibés, ManelCase AD-278-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsPart (B) describes how to fit a lognormal distribution to the five percentiles given in Part (A) of the case. Given this lognormal distribution, a straightforward Monte-Carlo simulation model can be implemented to find the alternative with the smallest expected cost.Starting at €5.74
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The Lydia Pinkham Story
Gómez, JavierCase AD-273-EEconomicsThe Lydia Pinkham data are presented. The case focuses on the analysis of the effect of advertising expenditures on sales of a pharmaceutical product. Consideration is given to the fact that the effect of advertising on sales may change during the period, because of external factors such as FDA regulations.Starting at €8.20
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Atlas Investment Management - Teaching Note
Estrada, JavierTeaching Note FT-60-EFinanceAid to instructors in the classroom use of case no. F-727-E Atlas Investment Management.Starting at €0.00
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Salomon Brothers (B)
Golembiewski, Christopher; Campana A.; Torres, Maximilian B.Case TD-150-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityPaul Mozer informs his supervisor, John Meriwether, about the US Treasury's letter to Mercury Asset Management, and the events that precipitated it. The decision is now Meriwether's. Should he in turn bring the problem to his superiors and the legal compliance department, a path that might result in Mozer's dismissal, harsh penalties for the firm and the loss of his traders' confidence? Or, given the SEC's stated intention of dropping the matter...Starting at €5.74
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Investment Strategies and Berkshire Hathaway
Palencia, LuisCase C-734-EAccounting and ControlAn average investor, Josu Short, reviews Berkshire Hathaway's 13-plus-one points of the "contract with shareholders" present in each of the company's annual reports. Apparent inconsistencies and financial paradoxes are presented.Starting at €8.20
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Angel Toy
Huang J.; Rosenberg, MikeCase ASN-35-EFinance, Knowledge and CommunicationBefore leaving for Spain, Joe was working for his family' business, Angel Toy Corporation. Angel Toy had acquired two cartoon licenses which Joe was in charge of. Everything had gone smoothly, but inventory had not arrived yet and he wanted to make sure that things were running smoothly. A weekly industry email was sent out every Wednesday to update on what was happening in the toy biz. He had just read an AP about a particular toy company. Appla...Starting at €8.20
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Linkality's Call Center
Bitran, Gabriel R.; Mitchell, Jordan; Rocha e Oliveira, PauloCase M-1221-EMarketing, Service and Operations ManagementLinkality is the 8th largest Internet service provider (ISP) in the United States, with a subscriber base of approximately 3 million users. The case is focused on the management of Linkalitys call center, where approximately 85% of all contact with existing customers takes place. Hal Paden, VP of Operations, is looking for ways to reduce operating costs while at the same time improving service quality levels. Shelly Townsend, the call center ma...Starting at €8.20
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Morgan Stanley, 2005
Oleaga M.; Campa, Jose ManuelCase F-805-ECorporate GovernanceIn the fall of 2005, Miles Marsh, Morgan Stanley Lead Director, was looking at a series of requests from different groups of shareholders for proposals to be included in the agenda for the forthcoming Annual Shareholders meeting of Morgan Stanley. It had been a very eventful year at the company. During the spring of 2005, Zoe Cruz, a 24-year veteran of Morgan Stanleys Institutional Securities Group and Stephen Crawford, the Firm's Chief Adminis...Starting at €8.20
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Guidant Corporation: Disclosure or non Disclosure Dilemmas in the Pacemaker Industry
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-168-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation is a high-tech startup producing medical devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators and coronary stent systems. Toward the middle of 2002, Guidant discovers that some of its pacemakers and defibrillators, which had been sold and implanted in thousands of patients, had a technical problem and could fail to deliver an electric shock when one was needed. The company faces the dilemma of whether or not to disclose the information ...Starting at €8.20