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Reform in the Chicago Public Schools
Weinzierl, Matthew C.; Flanagan, KatrinaCase HBS-714027-EEconomicsIn 2012, the Chicago Teachers' Union went on strike over proposed reforms by the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel. At the heart of the reforms, and the strike, was frustration over many decades of underperformance in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and a surge of controversial, largely market-based, experimentation in public education in many U.S. cities.Starting at €8.20
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Should Corporate Profits Be Taxed (A)
Weinzierl, Matthew C.; Flanagan, KatrinaCase HBS-714033-EEconomicsTaxing corporations is popular, but why? Corporations do not bear the burden of taxes, people do, and the incidence of the corporate income tax burden is likely to be far different from what many of its supporters assume. Instructors may also obtain a Teaching Note, written by this case's author, that provides suggestions for using this case effectively in the classroom.Starting at €8.20
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Janet Yellen and the Bernanke Fed (Spanish version)
Weinzierl, Matthew C.; Flanagan, KatrinaCase HBS-718S20EconomicsThe unelected Federal Reserve Chairman exerts exceptional influence over the U.S., in fact global, economy. As Janet Yellen prepared to take over the position, she would look back on Chairman Bernanke's tenure during the Great Recession. During that time, Bernanke was attacked by critics from both the left and the right for guiding monetary policy into dangerous territory. Their criticisms echoed arguments Bernanke himself had made with regard to...Starting at €8.20
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Obamacare
Weinzierl, Matthew C.; Flanagan, KatrinaCase HBS-714029-EEconomicsOne vote in June, 2012, decided the fate of President Barack Obama's crowning first-term achievement: universal health insurance. Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court cast the deciding vote to uphold the keystone of the reform: the mandate to purchase insurance. That mandate had a convoluted history. Though born in a conservative think-tank and originally adopted by Republican leaders as a necessary component of reform, it was rej...Starting at €8.20
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Janet Yellen and the Bernanke Fed
Weinzierl, Matthew C.; Flanagan, KatrinaCase HBS-714030-EEconomicsThe unelected Federal Reserve Chairman exerts exceptional influence over the U.S., in fact global, economy. As Janet Yellen prepared to take over the position, she would look back on Chairman Bernanke's tenure during the Great Recession. During that time, Bernanke was attacked by critics from both the left and the right for guiding monetary policy into dangerous territory. Their criticisms echoed arguments Bernanke himself had made with regard to...Starting at €8.20
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Google Cloud Platform: BigQuery ML
Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr.; Boatright, BenjaminTechnical Note DARDEN-QA-0942-EDecision AnalysisGoogle Cloud Platform offers BigQuery ML, a popular cloud computing resource for developing data models. This note provides information about creating, evaluating, and deploying data models with BigQuery ML.Starting at €8.20
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Zillow Offers' "Volatile Error Rate"
Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr.; Boatright, BenjaminCase DARDEN-QA-0944-EDecision AnalysisIn November 2021, Zillow announced that it was planning to shut down Zillow Offers, its iBuying program that leveraged its home value algorithm to quickly purchase homes for later resale. Zillow made the announcement after its market capitalization dropped from $48.35 billion in February 2021 to $16 billion in November. Poor program performance in 2021 left the company with roughly $500 million in losses due to an extensive inventory of overpaid ...Starting at €8.20
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Google Cloud Platform: BigQuery Explainable AI
Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr.; Boatright, BenjaminTechnical Note DARDEN-QA-0943-EDecision AnalysisMachine-learning (ML) models have become a common tool used across a multitude of industries to help people make decisions. As these models have increased in predictive power, many have also grown in complexity. The pursuit to improve the accuracy of predictions has diminished the interpretability of many models—leaving users with little understanding of the model’s behavior or trust in its predictions. The field of eXplainable artificial intelli...Starting at €8.20
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Google Cloud Platform: BigQuery Explainable AI
Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr.; Boatright, BenjaminTechnical Note DARDEN-QA-0943Decision AnalysisMachine-learning (ML) models have become a common tool used across a multitude of industries to help people make decisions. As these models have increased in predictive power, many have also grown in complexity. The pursuit to improve the accuracy of predictions has diminished the interpretability of many models—leaving users with little understanding of the model’s behavior or trust in its predictions. The field of eXplainable artificial intelli...Starting at €8.20
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Immigration Policy in Germany (A)
Weinzierl, Matthew C.; Flanagan, Katrina; Su, AlastairCase HBS-715029-EEconomicsGermany's Chancellor Angela Merkel faced economic and moral pressure to encourage greater immigration from struggling European, and especially Eurozone, countries after the economic downturn that began in 2008. In fact, it was possible that both the Euro currency union and the European political union depended on increasing migration across member countries, including into Germany. But German domestic politics made Merkel's decision a difficult o...Starting at €8.20