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- November 2012 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
The Levees Repaired, a System Still Broken: Post Katrina Turnaround at the Orleans Public Defenders (A)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Olivia Leskinen
Law Professor Ronald Sullivan was asked to lead a turnaround of the Orleans Public Defenders as a one-year assignment following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The office was underfunded and had perverse incentives embedded throughout the system. Sullivan's new vision to...
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Olivia Leskinen. "The Levees Repaired, a System Still Broken: Post Katrina Turnaround at the Orleans Public Defenders (A)." Harvard Business School Case 313-026, November 2012. (Revised June 2013.)
- March 2010 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
Public Education in New Orleans: Pursuing Systemic Change through Entrepreneurship
By: Stacey M. Childress and James Weber
After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in August 2005, the state had taken over 102 of the 118 public schools in New Orleans and shifted the management structure from a “single school system to a system of schools.” Entrepreneurs from the region and around the...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Governance;
Natural Disasters;
Education;
Entrepreneurship;
Education Industry;
New Orleans
Childress, Stacey M., and James Weber. "Public Education in New Orleans: Pursuing Systemic Change through Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Case 310-052, March 2010. (Revised January 2011.)
- February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
The Big Easy, Not So Easy
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo
Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and, if so, how to mitigate the risks. Set in January 2007, more than a year after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the case examines how...
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Keywords:
Natural Disasters;
Housing;
Projects;
Risk Management;
Urban Development;
Reputation;
New Orleans
Retsinas, Nicolas P., Arthur I Segel, and Ben Creo. "The Big Easy, Not So Easy." Harvard Business School Case 208-068, February 2008. (Revised May 2012.)
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
Video Embed Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert. They weren’t home yet, though. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins,...
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- 14 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
secured his place in history with the critical Louisiana Purchase, Mukunda argues that "no diplomatic virtuosity or intellectual brilliance was required there is nothing in the events surrounding it that suggests any normal president...
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by Kim Girard
- Web
The Other Crisis and What You Can Do About It - Forum for Growth
27th, news broke that a Louisiana police officer was fired for saying it’s “unfortunate” more black people didn’t die of Coronavirus. While this officer’s dismissal is a step in the right direction, it should remind us that the “other...
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- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
decade in Louisiana working in education, and had deep knowledge about local schools and state policy. Realizing that her individual efforts to support new charter schools were just scratching the surface, she launched NSNO. She recruited...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
heartland is significant. We're excited to do more—to better understand the issues and opportunities in these regions. And, next year’s FIELD immersions will be domestically focused, taking students, faculty members, and staff to cities from Baton Rouge, View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Academy of International Business and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Stobaugh started his education in a two-room schoolhouse in a small Arkansas town, later entering Louisiana State University at age fifteen and earning a...
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- December 2018 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Darling Ingredients International
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
Led by CEO Randall Stuewe, Texas-based Darling Ingredients International was a rendering firm with $3.7 billion in 2017 revenues. Since 2003, Darling had transformed from U.S. focused into a global player in the processing of biological waste from meat and foodservice...
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Keywords:
Darling;
Ingredients;
Stuewe;
Rendering;
Animal Byproducts;
Used Cooking Oil;
UCO;
Diamond Green Diesel;
DGD;
Valero;
Renewable Diesel;
Biofuel;
Recycling;
Carbon;
LCFS;
Blend;
Blender;
Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Renewable Energy;
Food;
Agribusiness;
Expansion;
Diversification;
Growth Management;
Technological Innovation;
Policy;
Government Legislation;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Energy Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States;
Louisiana;
California;
Texas
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Darling Ingredients International." Harvard Business School Case 519-048, December 2018. (Revised May 2019.)
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Public School System is faced with rebuilding from the ground up. The challenge is enormous, as is the opportunity to remake the lowest performing public school system in Louisiana and one of the lowest...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
had problems on the stage and became violent, they would put him into jail instead of in a hospital. So his run goes from maybe 1895 through 1906. He maybe gets 10 or 11 years of creativity and by Labor Day 1906 he's committed to the insane asylum of View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and-barely-to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation's hard-won independence from Britain. Buy the book:...
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Sean Silverthorne