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  • 14 Jun 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp

Keywords: by Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux; Education
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Governance; Natural Disasters; Education; Entrepreneurship; Education Industry; New Orleans
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Oliver Tercieux
In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top... View Details
Keywords: Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Design
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  • 06 Sep 2005
  • What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

contributors to the learning process? If so, what will have to happen? What do you think? Original Article There will be an endless number of post-mortems concerning the tragedies that befell the residents of New View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux Abstract—In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Natural Disasters; Housing; Projects; Risk Management; Urban Development; Reputation; New Orleans
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  • 08 Jun 2022
  • News

Joseph B. Fuller on the State of the Workforce

  • 25 Jan 2012
  • News

Pine Street Inn gets into corporate catering

  • 18 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew

Jackson Shuttleworth (HBS MBA 2020) had his first cold drip in a New Orleans coffee shop in February 2019, from which began his journey to obtain a decent cold drip device for the home. After giving up on... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

structured and how much equity the founders should relinquish in exchange for the start-up capital. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807027 Rebuilding the New View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

plainly what was at stake," he wrote in Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul. The answer, in Schultz's mind, was a three-day conference in New Orleans in October 2008, a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
  • Supplement

The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
A short, supplemental case to "The Big Easy, Not So Easy" (208-068). Doris Koo must respond to new challenges at Lafitte in New Orleans. View Details
Keywords: Natural Disasters; Housing; Projects; Risk Management; Urban Development; Reputation; New Orleans
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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

protect Guyana’s vast forests.” Back to top Desiree Rogers (MBA 1985) Co-Owner, CEO, Black Opal LLC The Big Easy: “I grew up in the 7th Ward of New Orleans and went to school in the French Quarter. Growing... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Made in Italy

boundaries of the classroom. The idea stretches back to 2006, when, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a group of MBA students organized a service trip to New Orleans to study—and assist—businesses... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Pursuing Systemic Change through Entrepreneurship Stacey Childress and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 310-052 After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in August 2005, the state had taken over 102 of the 118 public schools in View Details
  • 06 May 2021
  • HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

her hometown of New Orleans before moving to Miami. Gibson shifted her focus to cultivating higher-wage jobs in marginalized communities and drew on her background in environmental sciences to form EcoTech... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

elements do not translate well from manufacturing and what challenges exist in a unique setting, such as this. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-001.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsNew Schools for New View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Carnival Queen

In Chicago, Desirée Glapion Rogers (MBA '85) is known as a hardworking executive at Peoples Energy, a diversified energy company, and as the former head of the Illinois State Lottery. But ask folks in New View Details
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Tribute to Fellowships

wondered whether she should pack up and go home. Not that she had a home to return to. That was the problem. The day before Thompson moved into Chase Hall on August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina had flooded the New View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

A bold experiment in education

A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA 2005) planned to open a charter school in New York after HBS, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was inspired to found New View Details