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The California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), Teaching Note
Gomez-Ibanez, JoseTeaching Note HBS-HKS684-EEconomicsIn November of 2010, the California voters had to decide whether to support a ballot proposition that would effectively end the state's pioneering effort to reduce global warming. In 2006, the California legislature passed Assembly Bill (AB) 32, "The California Global Warming Solutions Act", a law mandating that California reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020. Supporters of AB 32 argued that it would energize other stat...Starting at €0.00
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Ho Chi Minh City
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Xuan Thanh, NguyenCase HBS-HKS115-EEconomicsIn March 2008 the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, approved a revised master plan designed to guide the development of the city through the year 2025. Vietnam's economy had been growing at rates of 6 to 8 percent per year for nearly two decades, and much of that growth was located in its cities, and in Ho Chi Minh City in particular. Real estate prices were at all time highs, development pressures threatened the h...Starting at €8.20
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TransMilenio: The Battle Over Avenida Septima
Mojica, Carlos; Gomez-Ibanez, JoseCase HBS-HKS681-EStrategyIn August of 2007, the mayor of Bogota, Luis Eduardo Garz n had to decide whether to proceed with plans to build a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line in Avenida S ptima, one of the most important transportation corridors in the Colombian capital. The proposed line would be an extension of Bogot 's BRT system, called TransMilenio, which had opened in 2000 as the first BRT system to be built in a large metropolis. TransMilenio's modest construction co...Starting at €8.20
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Rural Electrification in Nicaragua (Abridged)
Shiekh, Tahir; Gomez-Ibanez, JoseCase HBS-HKS483-EService and Operations ManagementIn the fall of 2001, officials of the National Energy Commission of Nicaragua were reviewing a pilot study of the options for electrification in three rural communities. Rural electrification was an important issue in Nicaragua since 40 percent of the population, mostly in rural areas, was without power. Many of those lived too far from the main high-voltage grid to be served easily with grid extensions. The consultants were recommending subsidiz...Starting at €8.20
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Lagos Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (LAMATA)
Gomez-Ibanez, JoseCase HBS-KS1156-EIn 2011 the World Bank and others were concerned that cities all over the developing world were losing their battle with increasing traffic congestion in part because they lacked institutions that had the authority and the capacity to promote public transportation in an integrated fashion. Lagos was one of the few major cities in the developing world to have a metropolitan area public transportation authority with broad powers, independent resour...Starting at €8.20
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Regulating Broadband in Chile: The Debate Over Open Access
Martabit, Jorge Tarzijan; Gomez-Ibanez, JoseCase HBS-HKS670-EEconomicsIn 2011, Chile's Undersecretary of Telecommunications, Jorge Atton, was considering adopting a different policy toward regulating competition in Internet services than previously applied to voice telephony. Atton headed Chile's telecommunications regulatory agency, SUBTEL. For the past two decades, SUBTEL had encouraged the emergence of competition in telephone services in part by forcing the incumbent telephone company to give new entrants to th...Starting at €8.20
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Parking in San Francisco
Broaddus, Andrea; Gomez-Ibanez, JoseCase HBS-HKS346-EEconomicsIn 2006 planners in the City and County of San Francisco were promoting an overhaul of the city's parking policy that they claimed would correct unfair and unwise subsidies for automobile users. The effort was designed to allow market forces to play a greater role in determining parking costs by, among other things, raising the price of residential on-street parking in neighborhoods where it was scarce, and raising parking meter rates on downtow...Starting at €8.20
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Yogyakarta Bus Terminal: The Private Provision of Municipal Infrastructure
Parikesit, Danang; Gomez-Ibanez, JoseCase HBS-HKS734-EEconomicsIn January 2009, Herry Zudianto the Mayor of Yogyakarta was reflecting on the apparent failure of his first effort to involve the private sector in the financing and provision of municipal infrastructure. Seven years earlier the City had awarded a 30-year concession to a local private company to build and operate an intercity bus terminal. Earlier that month, the company had sent the Mayor a letter announcing its intention to return the concessio...Starting at €8.20
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New Orleans After Katrina Sequel
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Schlefer, JonathanCase HBS-HKS189-EStrategyThis sequel accompanies the main case (1862.0). On Tuesday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans, causing inadequate levees to collapse and flood the city in what came to be widely seen as a man-made disaster. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) calculated that 105,000 of the city's 188,000 housing units were severely damaged or destroyed. It was the worst urban disaster in national memory. However, city leaders were...Starting at €8.20
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Vision Mumbai
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Masood, Sheikh ZahidCase HBS-HKS119-EEconomicsIn 2006 officials of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the State of Maharashtra were beginning to implement a plan to improve the economic fortunes of the city. Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, was India's richest city, with wealth based on trade, finance and filmmaking. But the city was also famous for its enormous slums, terrible traffic congestion, and poor infrastructure. And while India's economy had been growing rapidly since...Starting at €8.20