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"Miracle on the Hudson" (C): Epilogue
Weeks, Jennifer; Howitt, Arnold; Leonard, DutchCase HBS-HKS715-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement for case HKS713Starting at €5.74
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Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, Epilogue
Howitt, Arnold; Leonard, Herman B.; Tannenwald, DavidCase HBS-HKS455-EStrategyOn one side, a loose network of protesters made arrangements for dramatizing their opposition to the WTO and international trade practices. At the same time, public safety officials from local, state, and federal agencies developed security plans for the public areas near the locus of the ministerial meetings. Their aim was to ensure that the talks proceeded smoothly while preserving the activists' rights to peaceful protest. Throughout the plann...Starting at €8.20
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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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Oregon's Experiment with Coordinated Care Organizations
Tannenwald, David; Howitt, ArnoldCase HBS-KS1133-EEconomicsWhen Dr. John Kitzhaber became Oregon's Governor in January 2011, the state faced a reported $2 billion deficit in the state's Medicaid budget. Consequently, Kitzhaber, working in partnership with his top health policy advisors and an array of stakeholders, undertook a multi-year effort to transform the state's Medicaid delivery system. At the time, that system consisted of separate managed care organizations for different kinds of providers; but...Starting at €8.20
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Hurricane Katrina (B): The Looming Storm (Abridged)
Howitt, ArnoldCase HBS-HKS193-EStrategyOn Tuesday, August 23, 2005, meteorologists in the US National Weather Service spotted a tropical depression in the southeastern Bahamas. As it strengthened into a tropical storm, weather officials gave it a name, Katrina, and closely tracked it as it turned into a hurricane, crossing south Florida and then moving into the Gulf of Mexico. There, fed by the gulf's warm waters, Katrina turned into a monster: a "Category five" hurricane, with winds ...Starting at €5.74
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"Miracle on the Hudson" (B): Rescuing Passengers and Raising the Plane
Weeks, Jennifer; Howitt, Arnold; Leonard, DutchCase HBS-HKS714-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement for case HKS713Starting at €5.74
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Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999
Leonard, Herman B.; Tannenwald, David; Howitt, ArnoldCase HBS-HKS456-EStrategyOn one side, a loose network of protesters made arrangements for dramatizing their opposition to the WTO and international trade practices. At the same time, public safety officials from local, state, and federal agencies developed security plans for the public areas near the locus of the ministerial meetings. Their aim was to ensure that the talks proceeded smoothly while preserving the activists' rights to peaceful protest. Throughout the plann...Starting at €8.20
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Performance Management for Health in Washington State
Howitt, Arnold; Weeks, JenniferCase HBS-HKS760-EEconomicsBy the mid-2000s, Washington State's Department of Health (DOH) had earned a national reputation as an innovative and effective agency. But beginning in 2005, when newly elected Governor Christine Gregoire introduced a state-level performance management system - Government Management Accountability and Performance (GMAP) - DOH and other state entities found themselves having to regularly explain and justify their work through the newly establishe...Starting at €8.20
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The Consolidation of the Health Departments in Summit County, Ohio
Tannenwald, David; Howitt, ArnoldCase HBS-HKS753-EEconomicsIn late 2008, government officials in Summit County, Ohio began to discuss the possibility of combining the county's three public health districts. These early discussions set the stage for more than two years of negotiations that eventually led to the consolidation of the health departments in late 2010 and early 2011. This case tells the story of why and how officials in Summit County combined their public health districts and includes an epilo...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