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Revisiting Gang Violence in Boston
Scott, Esther; Zimmerman, PeterCase HBS-HKS329-EStrategyOn the night of November 28, 2006, Reverend Jeffrey Brown, a Baptist minister and co-founder of the Ten Point Coalition in Boston, Massachusetts, received bad news: 20-year-old Jahmol Norfleet, a leader in one of Boston's warring gangs, had been shot and killed near his home. Norfleet's death did not simply represent one more grim statistic in a year marred by gang violence in Boston: it threatened to undo a fragile truce between two gangs that h...Starting at €8.20
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"Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (B)
Leonard, Herman; Lee, Henry; Fung, Archon; Scott, EstherCase HBS-KS1049-ESupplement case for KS1016.Starting at €5.74
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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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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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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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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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Keeping a Campaign Promise: George W. Bush and Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage
Scott, Esther; Porter, RogerCase HBS-HKS191-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
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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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Sea Breeze Capital (A)
Nieboer, Ian; Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Kelly, Peter; Menden, Lenka; Johnson, RobCase F-888-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceIn recent years, there has been growing interest in the entrepreneurial acquisitions sometimes known as "search funds." The concept, which was first referred to as a search fund in the United States, has been appearing increasingly in Europe and other countries, including developing economies in Asia and Latin America. Search funds are based on the idea of finding and acquiring a company as the basis for becoming an entrepreneur. Sea Breeze Capit...Starting at €8.20