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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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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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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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Moving People out of Danger (A): Special Needs Evacuations from Gulf Coast Hurricanes
Giles, David; Howitt, ArnoldCase HBS-HKS682-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 €8.20
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A Cascade of Emergencies (A): Responding to Superstorm Sandy in New York City
Howitt, Arnold M.; Giles, DavidCase HBS-KS1264-EEconomicsOn October 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy made landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sandy's massive size, coupled with an unusual combination of meteorological conditions, fueled an especially powerful and destructive storm surge, which caused unprecedented damage in and around New York City, the country's most populous metropolitan area, as well as on Long Island and along the Jersey Shore. This two-part case study focuses on how New York City p...Starting at €8.20
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A State of Flux (A): Reorganizing Public Health in Arkansas, 2005 - 2007
Giles, David; Howitt, Arnold M.Case HBS-KS1272-EEconomicsBeginning in the late 1990s and lasting through much of the next decade, the Arkansas Department of Health underwent multiple changes to its organizational structure. Part A of "A State of Flux" recounts how, after a brief period in which the director of health replaced traditional hierarchical leadership with team-based management, several findings of administrative shortcomings helped prompt Governor Mike Huckabee and the state legislature to m...Starting at €8.20
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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Politics of Crisis Response (A)
Giles, David; Howitt, Arnold; Leonard, DutchCase HBS-HKS739-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 €8.20
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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