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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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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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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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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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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
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The "Three Strikes" Law in California: The Ballot Initiative
Scott, Esther; Donahue, John D.Case HBS-HKS112-EStrategyIn November 1994, California voters were presented with a ballot initiative on a proposed "three strikes" measure, which would impose stiff penalties on repeat offenders. Under the terms of Proposition 184, offenders with one or two violent or serious felonies on their records would get much longer sentences for second or third felony crimes-in the case of a third "strike," a term of 25 years to life; moreover, these repeat crimes did not have t...Starting at €8.20
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"Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (Sequel)
Leonard, Herman; Lee, Henry; Scott, EstherCase HBS-KS1058-EOn January 11, 2006, residents of New Orleans's Broadmoor neighborhood, which still bore the deep scars left by Hurricane Katrina, were shocked by the headlines in The Times-Picayune. The Urban Planning Committee of a mayoral commission charged with developing a reconstruction plan for the hurricane-ravaged city had proposed giving hard-hit neighborhoods like Broadmoor four months to prove that they were still viable and, hence, worth rebuilding...Starting at €8.20
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"Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (A)
Leonard, Herman; Lee, Henry; Scott, EstherCase HBS-KS1016-EOn January 11, 2006, residents of New Orleans's Broadmoor neighborhood, which still bore the deep scars left by Hurricane Katrina, were shocked by the headlines in The Times-Picayune. The Urban Planning Committee of a mayoral commission charged with developing a reconstruction plan for the hurricane-ravaged city had proposed giving hard-hit neighborhoods like Broadmoor four months to prove that they were still viable and, hence, worth rebuilding...Starting at €8.20
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Keeping a Campaign Promise: George W. Bush and Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage (Epilogue)
Scott, Esther; Porter, RogerCase HBS-HKS209-EStrategyIn January 2003, President George W. Bush was finalizing a groundbreaking proposal for Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly. Under the terms of the plan, Medicare would offer a major new benefit: prescription drug coverage-a long-sought but elusive goal for seniors and their advocates. By any measure, this would seem a surprising initiative coming from a politically conservative White House. If approved by Congress, the ...Starting at €8.20