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Rethinking School
Childress, StaceyArticle HBS-R1203E-EEconomicsEconomists have found that the higher a country's academic test scores, the faster its GDP grows. That puts the United States' perennially mediocre test scores in a particularly ominous light. Progress is being made, says Childress, of the Gates Foundation, but at the rate even the most engaged school systems are improving, it will take 80 years to catch up to where China is now. New approaches, including personalized technology, online videos, a...Starting at €8.20
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College Summit: Rethinking the Relationship Between Growth and Impact
Childress, Stacey; Marietta, GeoffCase HBS-309088-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. College Summit, a nonprofit organization "committed to the day when every student who can make it in college makes it to college," was faced with an important strategic decision. After growing rapidly at more than 30% a year for the last several years, Founder and CEO J.B. Schramm, Chief Strategy Officer Mora Segal, and the College Summit team must now decide whether or not ...Starting at €8.20
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Crossing the Line: Don Imus and the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team
Scott, Esther; Jones, AlexCase HBS-HKS120-EOn April 4, 2007, talk show host Don Imus, while chatting with his sidekicks on his morning radio program, referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team-which had lost a college championship game the previous evening-as "nappy-headed hos." This was not the first time that Imus and the regulars on his show-which was nationally syndicated by CBS Radio and simulcast on MSNBC-had ed racial and sexual innuendo into their early morning banter. "Imu...Starting at €8.20
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Taking a Therapeutic Approach to Juvenile Offenders: The "Missouri Model"
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Scott, Esther; Boatright Wilson, JulieCase HBS-HKS104-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. In the early 1970s, the Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) took its first steps toward radically changing the way it dealt with youthful offenders remanded to its custody. For years, like most states, it had incarcerate...Starting at €8.20
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Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
Childress, Stacey; Marietta, GeoffCase HBS-309090-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In his role as Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed), Art Rolnick and his colleague, Rob Grunewald, had written "Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return." The thesis was fairly straightforward; early childhood development (ECD) had the highest returns so states and local...Starting at €8.20
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Jailing Kids for Cash in Pennsylvania (Supplement)
Donahue, John D.; Scott, EstherCase HBS-HKS114-EStrategyThis supplement is the third part of a three part case. The main case (case 1908.0) provides background on the California three strikes law, and then briefly describes the proponents and opponents of the ballot measure, and the arguments each side put forward. The sequel and supplement can be read sequentially in class. The brief sequel summarizes the impact of the ballot initiative-which was overwhelmingly approved by voters-on both the state...Starting at €8.20
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The "Three Strikes" Law in California (Sequel): The Impact
Donahue, John D.; Scott, EstherCase HBS-HKS113-EStrategyThis sequel is the second part of this three part case. The main case (case 1908.0) provides background on the California three strikes law, and then briefly describes the proponents and opponents of the ballot measure, and the arguments each side put forward. The next two parts can be read sequentially in class. This brief sequel summarizes the impact of the ballot initiative-which was overwhelmingly approved by voters-on both the state priso...Starting at €8.20
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School of One: Reimagining How Students Learn
Childress, Stacey; Weber, James; Haldeman, MatthewCase HBS-310053-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. School of One was a start-up with a new approach to learning. Instead of one teacher delivering the entire math curriculum to a class of 20-25 students, School of One utilized a technology platform that allowed several teachers to collectively oversee the learning of a larger group of students. Each student followed a personalized pathway to mastery of a set of math concepts...Starting at €8.20
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Same Bed, Different Dreams': The China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (A)
Scott, Esther; Thomas, JohnCase HBS-HKS187-EEconomicsIn February 1994, top officials from China and Singapore signed a landmark partnership agreement to develop a massive new industrial park and residential community in the city of Suzhou in China. The ambitious project, modeled after Singapore's highly successful industrial-residential parks, would provide not only jobs for hundreds of thousands of people, but homes and community facilities as well. The agreement between the partners also called f...Starting at €8.20
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Same Bed, Different Dreams': The China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (B)
Scott, Esther; Thomas, JohnCase HBS-HKS188-EEconomicsIn February 1994, top officials from China and Singapore signed a landmark partnership agreement to develop a massive new industrial park and residential community in the city of Suzhou in China. The ambitious project, modeled after Singapore's highly successful industrial-residential parks, would provide not only jobs for hundreds of thousands of people, but homes and community facilities as well. The agreement between the partners also called f...Starting at €5.74