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Buses for Democracy: Improving Public Transport in South Africa
Anthony Wilson-Prangley; Gretchen Wilson-PrangleyCase IVEY-9B14C028-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyWith the 2010 FIFA World Cup fast approaching, Johannesburg, South Africa, needs a much-improved public transport system. A bus rapid transit (BRT) system is proposed and the key challenge involves getting buy-in from the minibus-taxi industry, which serves current commuters with 22,000 minibus-taxis, but which sometimes threatens violence to ensure there is little change in its way of operating. The leader of the main Johannesburg taxi associati...Starting at €8.20
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Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, Teaching Note
Leonard, Herman B.; Giles, DavidTeaching Note HBS-HKS566-EStrategyTeaching Note for HKS456 and HKS455.Starting at €0.00
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Tennessee Responds to the 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza A Pandemic
Giles, David; Howitt, ArnoldCase HBS-HKS680-EStrategyThe 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic posed enormous challenges for state health departments across the U.S. This case focuses on the experience of Tennessee - which endured an intense resurgence of the disease in late summer and early fall 2009 - and explores, in particular, how state health officials, working with their partners from local government and the private sector, mobilized in advance of this second wave of the disease. An array of prepare...Starting at €8.20
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Moving People out of Danger (B): Special Needs Evacuations from Gulf Coast Hurricanes
Giles, David; Howitt, ArnoldCase HBS-HKS700-EStrategyIn late summer 2005, Hurricane Katrina - the worst natural disaster in U.S. history - wreaked havoc along the Gulf Coast, causing massive loss of life and property damage. (Just a few weeks later, Hurricane Rita would inflict even more suffering across much of the same area.) The evacuation of special needs individuals (e.g., the institutionalized, those with medical conditions, people without access to cars, etc.) from New Orleans was especially...Starting at €5.74
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Olitzki Property Holdings Catalyzes Change in Johannesburg
Anthony Wilson-Prangley; Jonathan Marks; Margaret SutherlandCase IVEY-9B15M118-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe large-scale abandonment of property in inner-city Johannesburg had brought waves of crime, illegal building occupation and general disinvestment. The founder of Olitzki Property Holdings (OPH) saw that an improvement at a precinct level, through carefully constructed partnerships with government, other property owners, tenants and illegal residents, was the key to building a sustainable, inclusive and socially grounded entrepreneurial busines...Starting at €8.20
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Tackling the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Through Multi-partner Stakeholder Engagement
Margaret Sutherland; Anthony Wilson-Prangley; Verity HawardenCase IVEY-9B13C029-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (WRHI), a South African non-government organization, played a crucial role in turning the tide in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa. The organization significantly influenced the national response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic through its credibility, research output and multiple stakeholder engagement. The collaborative multiparty relationships between WRHI's stakeholders were a key component of the o...Starting at €8.20
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On the Frontlines of a Pandemic: Texas Responds to 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza A
Giles, David; Howitt, ArnoldCase HBS-HKS678-EStrategyIn the spring of 2009, cases of a previously unidentified strain of influenza began appearing in Mexico and the southwestern U.S. Within just a few months, outbreaks of 2009 Novel H1N1 (commonly referred to as Swine Flu) were so widespread that the World Health Organization declared its first influenza pandemic in over forty years. This case focuses on how state health officials in Texas, which experienced some of the first cases of H1N1, organiz...Starting at €8.20
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On the Frontlines of a Pandemic: Texas Responds to 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza A & Tennessee Responds to the 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza A Pandemic, Teaching Note
Giles, David; Howitt, ArnoldTeaching Note HBS-HKS679-EStrategyIn the spring of 2009, cases of a previously unidentified strain of influenza began appearing in Mexico and the southwestern U.S. Within just a few months, outbreaks of 2009 Novel H1N1 (commonly referred to as Swine Flu) were so widespread that the World Health Organization declared its first influenza pandemic in over forty years. This case focuses on how state health officials in Texas, which experienced some of the first cases of H1N1, organiz...Starting at €0.00
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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Politics of Crisis Response (B)
Giles, David; Howitt, Arnold; Leonard, DutchCase HBS-HKS740-EEconomicsFollowing the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in late April 2010, the Obama administration organized a massive response operation to contain the enormous amount of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico. Attracting intense public attention and, eventually, widespread criticism, the response adhered to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, a federal law that the crisis would soon reveal was not well understood - or even accepted - by all r...Starting at €5.74
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Defending the Homeland: The Massachusetts National Guard Responds to the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings
Giles, David; Howitt, Arnold M.Case HBS-KS1220-EOn April 15, 2013, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev placed and detonated two homemade bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three bystanders and injuring more than two hundred others. This case profiles the role the Massachusetts National Guard played in the complex, multi-agency response that unfolded in the minutes, hours, and days following the bombings, exploring how its soldiers and airmen helped support efforts on multipl...Starting at €8.20