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Cracking Oyster: Shashi Verma & Transport for London Confront a Tough Contract (B) Teaching Plan
Donahue, John D.; Varley, PamelaTeaching Note HBS-KS1009-EEconomicsTeaching plan for product HKS744.Starting at €0.00
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Negotiating from the Margins: The Santa Clara Pueblo Seeks Key Ancestral Lands, Teaching Plan
Hong, Kessely; Varley, Pamela; Garcia-Rios, PatriciaTeaching Note HBS-KS1011-ETeaching plan for product HKS886.Starting at €0.00
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Measured Approach: TEGV Assesses its Performance & Impact on Educational Enrichment Programs
Varley, Pamela; Laidler-Kylander, NathalieCase HBS-KS1042-EThis case traces the evolution of thinking about, and the implementation of, performance assessment at one of Turkey's largest and most respected nonprofit organizations, the Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey (TEGV). TEGV delivers a broad array of educational enrichment programs to low income children across Turkey through a team of volunteers. In contrast to many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) across the world, which have adopte...Starting at €8.20
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Devil in the Details: Designing a Social Impact Bond Agreement in Medellin
Varley, Pamela; Levy, DanCase HBS-KS1139-EEconomicsIn July 2012, three freshly-minted Harvard Kennedy School graduates bought one-way tickets to Medellin, Colombia, to launch a nonprofit startup they called Instiglio. Their idea: to bring Social Impact Bonds, still experimental even in affluent nations, to Colombia and other low to middle income countries. This statistics case-one of two nearly identical HKS cases about Instiglio-provides background about the SIB model (a financing mechanism for ...Starting at €8.20
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The Quest for Sustainable Public Transit Funding: SEPTA's 2013 Capital Budget Crisis
Varley, Pamela; Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Rosengard, Jay K.Case HBS-KS1145-EFinanceDesigned for a course in public finance or in transportation, this case describes the financial crisis that, in 2013, loomed over the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the transit system serving Philadelphia and four surrounding counties. The difficulties were predominantly in the system's long-inadequate capital budget, which funded maintenance, repair, and replacement costs for the aging legacy system, but these proble...Starting at €8.20
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The Quest for Sustainable Public Transit Funding: SEPTA's 2013 Capital Budget Crisis, Teaching Plan
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Rosengard, Jay K.; Varley, PamelaTeaching Note HBS-KS1147-EFinanceTeaching plan for cases KS1145 and KS1146.Starting at €0.00
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Target of Opportunity: South Africa's Western Cape Seeks a Role in the African Oil Boom, Teaching Plan
Hausmann, Ricardo; Varley, PamelaTeaching Note HBS-KS1173-EEconomicsTeaching Note for case HKS771.Starting at €0.00
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Detroit's Troubled Waters: Race, Politics, Bankruptcy & Regionalism
Varley, Pamela; Mayne, QuintonCase HBS-KS1250-EEconomicsRegional governance, by contrast to municipal or state control, is the best level of government to tackle certain public functions-or at least, so it seems to most urban planners. Yet in many parts of the United States, it is all but impossible to build the political will to shift from local to regional governance. This decision-forcing case (which includes a video supplement, HKS Case 2093.0) places students in Detroit during the city's financia...Starting at €8.20
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Transforming Desert Land & Human Potential: Egypt's 'SEKEM' Initiative Reaches a Crossroads
Varley, Pamela; Seelos, ChristianCase HBS-KS1266-EEconomicsThe SEKEM initiative, headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, was an unusual social enterprise by any standard. It produced organic products; provided health, education and arts programs to the local community; and-more broadly, sought to create a sustainable community that explicitly cultivated the human potential of its members. It reflected the vision of its charismatic founding director, Ibrahim Abouleish, who had run SEKEM with his son, Helmy Aboulei...Starting at €8.20
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New Peril, Old Adversary: George W. Bush, 9/11, & Iraq (B): The Road to War, September 2002 to March 2003
Westad, Arne; Varley, PamelaCase HBS-KS1268-EEconomicsSupplement to case KS1267. The U.S. choice to go to war with Iraq, beginning in March 2003, was enormously consequential. This two-part case, developed for an HKS course called "Power Shifts: Understanding Global Change Through History," goes back in time to trace the evolution of American policy toward Iraq prior to 9/11, and the shift in thinking that led to war with Iraq during the administration of George W. Bush. The two parts of the case co...Starting at €5.74