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Hurricane Katrina (C): Responding to an 'Ultra-Catastrophe' In New Orleans (Abridged)
Howitt, ArnoldCaso HBS-HKS194-EDirección estratégicaOn 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 ...Desde 5,74 €
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Moving People out of Danger (A): Special Needs Evacuations from Gulf Coast Hurricanes
Giles, David; Howitt, ArnoldCaso HBS-HKS682-EDirección estratégicaIn 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...Desde 8,20 €
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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Politics of Crisis Response (A)
Giles, David; Howitt, Arnold; Leonard, DutchCaso HBS-HKS739-EEconomíaFollowing the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in late April 2010, the Obama administration organized a massive response operation to contain the enormous amount of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico. Attracting intense public attention and, eventually, widespread criticism, the response adhered to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, a federal law that the crisis would soon reveal was not well understood - or even accepted - by all r...Desde 8,20 €
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Operation Rollback Water: The National Guard's Response to the 2009 North Dakota Floods (A)
Howitt, Arnold; Tannenwald, DavidCaso HBS-KS1135-EEconomíaIn spring 2009, North Dakota experienced some of the worst flooding in state history. This case describes how the state's National Guard responded by mobilizing thousands of its troops and working in concert with personnel and equipment from six other states as well as an array of federal, state, and local stakeholders. Specifically, after providing background on the North Dakota National Guard and the state's susceptibility to flooding, the case...Desde 8,20 €
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Confronting a Pandemic in a Home Rule State: The Indiana State Department of Health Responds to H1N1
Giles, David; Howitt, ArnoldCaso HBS-HKS728-EEconomíaWhen Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Judy Monroe learned of the emergence of H1N1 (commonly referred to as "Swine Flu") in late April 2009, she had to quickly figure out how to coordinate an effective response within her state's highly balkanized public health system, in which more than 90 local health departments wielded considerable autonomy. Over the next several months, she would come to rely heavily on relationships she had worked hard...Desde 8,20 €
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Operation Rollback Water: The National Guard's Response to the 2009 North Dakota Floods (B)
Howitt, Arnold; Tannenwald, DavidCaso HBS-KS1136-EEconomíaIn spring 2009, North Dakota experienced some of the worst flooding in state history. This case describes how the state's National Guard responded by mobilizing thousands of its troops and working in concert with personnel and equipment from six other states as well as an array of federal, state, and local stakeholders. Specifically, after providing background on the North Dakota National Guard and the state's susceptibility to flooding, the case...Desde 5,74 €
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Operation Rollback Water: The National Guard's Response to the 2009 North Dakota Floods (Epilogue to B)
Howitt, Arnold; Tannenwald, DavidCaso HBS-KS1137-EEconomíaIn spring 2009, North Dakota experienced some of the worst flooding in state history. This case describes how the state's National Guard responded by mobilizing thousands of its troops and working in concert with personnel and equipment from six other states as well as an array of federal, state, and local stakeholders. Specifically, after providing background on the North Dakota National Guard and the state's susceptibility to flooding, the case...Desde 8,20 €
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On the Frontlines of a Pandemic: Texas Responds to 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza A & Tennessee Responds to the 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza A Pandemic, Teaching Note
Giles, David; Howitt, ArnoldNota del Instructor HBS-HKS679-EDirección estratégicaIn the spring of 2009, cases of a previously unidentified strain of influenza began appearing in Mexico and the southwestern U.S. Within just a few months, outbreaks of 2009 Novel H1N1 (commonly referred to as Swine Flu) were so widespread that the World Health Organization declared its first influenza pandemic in over forty years. This case focuses on how state health officials in Texas, which experienced some of the first cases of H1N1, organiz...Desde 0,00 €
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Health Care Reform in Massachusetts: Impacts on Public Health
Howitt, Arnold; Weeks, JenniferCaso HBS-HKS762-EEconomíaIn 2006, with healthcare costs and the number of uninsured rising, Massachusetts passed landmark legislation that aimed to provide health insurance to everyone in the state. A product of bipartisan collaboration between a legislature dominated by Democrats and a Republican governor, the law contained several major innovations, including: mandates requiring residents to purchase health insurance and businesses to contribute toward employees' healt...Desde 8,20 €