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The Challenge Facing the U.S. Healthcare System
Authors: Bohmer, Richard; Knoop, Carin-Isabel
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
In response to growing challenges in the health care industry, regulators have introduced new forms of payment and financial incentives for doctors and delivery organizations, and managers have experimented with several new service models and delivery organization designs. This case frames the problems managers of delivery organizations are currently facing.
Unocal and the Yadana Gas Pipeline Project
Authors: Lawrence, A; Tolley, H., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2002
Unocal, a global energy company based in California, entered into a joint venture with the military government of Burma (Myanmar) to build a natural gas pipleline across that country's southern panhandle.
Hurricane Katrina: Continuing the Discussions A Year Later
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex; The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2006
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the media was suddenly broaching topics such as race inequality and environmental planning that receive little attention in the national discourse. CasePlace.org released a Featured Collection that covered a variety of topics that could be raised in business school classrooms (ranging from how to detect windfall profits to the history of racialized images in the media to budget tradeoffs in the face of warnings about environmental disaster). A year later, the same issues are relevant, but have they lost urgency? From securing levees to securing livelihoods, these topics remain important for future business leaders....
Hard Line State: Big Labor's War on Wal-Mart Claims Casualties Among Poor Marylanders
Authors: Hanke, Steve H.; Walters, Stephen
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Publication Year: 2006
The authors argue that the legislation passed in Maryland, the Fair Share Health Care Act which requires Wal-Mart to pay a fixed percentage of payroll for workers' health care undermines economic development in the state...
Financial Fraud at Royal Ahold
Authors: Cohen, Jacob; Hawkins, David F.; Raver, Jenifer
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2007
The case discusses the financial fraud at Royal Ahold.
The Power of Activism: Assessing the Impact of NGOs on Global Business
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; LaMure, Lane T.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2003
Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the emergence of activism across a wide variety of issue areas. On topics ranging from human rights to labor conditions, NGOs and activists represent an increasingly important constituency in a firm's nonmarket environment...
PolyMedica Corp. (A, B, C)
Authors: Hawkins, David F.; Cohen, Jacob
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
The Securities and Exchange Commission and investors question PolyMedica Corp.'s practice of capitalizing rather than expensing of direct-response advertising.
China: Building “Capitalism with Socialist Characteristics”
Authors: Spar, Debora; Oi, Jean; Bebenek, Chris
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Describes China's phenomenal development from a poor, communist country to a global powerhouse.
Norway Sells Wal-Mart
Authors: Pozen, Robert C.; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
In June 2006, Norway's Pension Fund decided to divest its position in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. after an investigation by the Fund's Ethics Council...
IPODERAC
Authors: Austin, James E.; Bermudez, Wendy; Escobar, Gustavo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1998
This 32-year-old nonprofit organization has dedicated itself to the care and social development of abandoned street children in Mexico...
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