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Implementation of a New Country-Wide Social Safety-Net Program: The Jamaica PATH Program, Teaching Note
Boatright Wilson, Julie; Murphy, Christina E.Teaching Note HBS-KS1271-ETeaching note for case KS1164 and KS1225.Starting at €0.00
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La reforma de salud en Bolivia: generando evidencia y sostenibilidad con gestión por resultados
Schwab N.; Pancorvo J.Case P-1026Service and Operations ManagementEn 1999, Bolivia dio comienzo a una reforma del sector salud basada en la evidencia. El caso describe los esfuerzos que hizo el Ministerio de Salud y Previsión Social para generar e institucionalizar una cultura gerencial basada en los resultados de establecer compromisos de gestión con las autoridades departamentales, con los objetivos e indicadores pertinentes. Los objetivos conciernen el plan de Seguro Básico de Salud (SBS) y el Programa Ampli...Starting at €8.20
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Petrobras in Ecuador (B)
Musacchio, Aldo; Goldberg, Lena G.; Reisen de Pinho, RicardoCase HBS-309108-EStarting at €5.74
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Petrobras in Ecuador (A)
Musacchio, Aldo; Goldberg, Lena G.; Reisen de Pinho, RicardoCase HBS-309107-EOn October 18, 2007, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announced his intention to migrate Petrobras' existing participation contracts to exploit oil reserves in Ecuador's Blocks 18 and 31 to servicing agreements under which Petrobras would be paid a production fee and reimbursed for investment costs but all recovered oil would belong to the government. Correa also announced a dramatic increase in corporate taxes and changes to other contracts to ...Starting at €8.20
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Petrobras in Ecuador (A), (B) and (C), Teaching Note
Musacchio, Aldo; Goldberg, Lena G.Teaching Note HBS-311043-ETeaching Note for 309107.Starting at €0.00
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Designing Impact Evaluations: Assessing Jamaica's PATH Program, Teaching Note
Levy, DanTeaching Note HBS-HKS622-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for HKS448.Starting at €0.00
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Jamaica Macaroni Factory: Capital Budgeting for Renewable Energy
Ryan Hudgins; Zach ChenCase IVEY-W34511-EAccounting and Control, StrategyIn January 2022, Nicholas Chen had to decide whether to invest in one of two solar power systems to reduce the energy cost of the manufacturing company, Jamaica Macaroni Factory Ltd.’s (JMF). He could purchase a 100kW solar power system and generate some of the energy JMF used while also selling back electricity to the grid when the factory was not operating, or he could purchase a 230kW system, which would produce more energy but, due to regulat...Starting at €8.20
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Designing Impact Evaluations: Assessing Jamaica's PATH Program
Bjorkegren, Daniel; Levy, Dan; McCreless, MichaelCase HBS-HKS448-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case asks participants to put themselves in the position of a government official in charge of selecting an evaluation design to assess the impact of a social program. The goal is to illustrate the tradeoffs that are made in the real world when trying to balance the desire for a rigorous and credible evaluation design with the logistic, political, financial and ethical constraints that so frequently arise in evaluating social programs. Par...Starting at €8.20
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Born Global: Timeless Herbal Care Prepares to Supply Medical Marijuana to Canadians
Brian C. Pinkham; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B16M212-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2012, a former crown attorney for Canada’s Department of Justice started Timeless Herbal Care, a company that was intended to capitalize on Jamaica’s deregulation of marijuana for medical purposes. The entrepreneur and his family relied on their ties to Jamaica and his legal expertise to create a legislative framework for Jamaica’s medical marijuana industry to meet international standards. Concurrently, Canada was readying legislation to allo...Starting at €8.20
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Implementation of a New Country-Wide Social Safety-Net Program: The Jamaica PATH Program, Epilogue
Boatright Wilson, JulieCase HBS-KS1225-EThis epilogue accompanies Case Number 2058.0, "Implementation of a New Country-Wide Social Safety-Net Program: The Jamaica PATH Program." In 2002 the Jamaican government redesigned its social safety net programs for children and the elderly. Their goal was to simplify and better target support to those individuals most in need. This case examines the new design for the PATH program, a conditional cash transfer program that rewarded mothers for ge...Starting at €8.20