Development Diplomacy in Action: The CASA-1000 Electricity Grid

Publication Date: February 6, 2025

Scenario:This eight-party development diplomacy simulation, set in late 2024, places students in a complex negotiation to revive the stalled regional energy infrastructure project known as CASA-1000. This transmission line seeks to create a regional...

Shimla City High School & Camp Sunshine: Negotiating Over Limited Resources

Publication Date: November 13, 2024

Scenario:In this fictional simulation, Shimla City High School has been dealing with financial troubles and is leasing its fleet of five school buses during the summer holidays to raise funds. Camp Sunshine, an environmentally oriented children’s...

Milestone or Misstep? Corruption, Development, and Democracy After Brazil’s Lava Jato Probe

Publication Date: October 3, 2024

This case explores Brazil’s Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato in Portuguese), the largest public corruption investigation in history, which led to indictments and convictions of some 359 business executives, government officials, and...

Through a New Lens: Physicians for Human Rights’ Photovoice Research with Kenyan Survivors of Sexual Violence

Publication Date: June 12, 2024

 In 2022, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a US- and Kenya-based non-governmental organization, was eager to evaluate the impact of a multi-year project to improve mental health services for survivors of sexual violence in Kenya. In doing...

A Fork in the Road: Simulating Lyndon Johnson's Choices in Vietnam in Early 1965

Publication Date: April 11, 2024

This historical role-play simulation is set on March 28, 1965. The scenario places students within the context of that time, a point at which, after months of increasing tensions and contentious debate, President Lyndon Johnson appears to be...

Getting Out the (Missing) Vote: Ohio Organizers Experiment with 'Relational' Contacts

Publication Date: April 8, 2024

In the first two decades of the 21st century, community organizers were increasingly enlisted by progressive foundations to help increase voter turnout among the “low propensity” voters in their communities, especially people of...

The Mosquito Network: Global Governance in the Fight to Eliminate Malaria Deaths

Publication Date: April 5, 2024

Malaria, a deadly disease transmitted by the bites of infected mosquitoes, had been effectively eliminated from the developed world since the end of the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Eradication Campaign in 1969. In Africa,...

Confronting Constraints: Shashi Verma & Transport for London Tackle a Tough Contract Sequel

Publication Date: December 19. 2023

This sequel accompanies HKS Case 2275.0, "Conflicting Constraints: Shashi Verma &Transport for London Tackle a Tough Contract."  The case introduces Shashi Verma (MPP 97) in 2006, soon after he has received a plum appointment: Director...

Confronting Constraints: Shashi Verma & Transport for London Tackle a Tough Contract

Publication Date: December 19. 2023

The case introduces Shashi Verma (MPP 97) in 2006, soon after he has received a plum appointment: Director of Fares and Ticketing for London's super agency, Transport for London. The centerpiece of the agency's ticketing operation was the Oyster...

Leading Pension Reform in Rhode Island: Building Holding Environments to Achieve Change

Publication Date: December 12, 2023

In 2010, Rhode Island’s public employee pension system was on the verge of collapse: it was just 48% funded and represented a $4.7 billion liability – the largest such pension liability in the nation. For many state employees and...

Climate Resilience in New York City: The Battle over East River Park

Publication Date: November 28, 2023

What makes climate change different as a policy challenge? Why is it so hard to solve? And how can we balance the need for the right technical solutions with the importance of having the process be as democratic and participatory as possible?The...

Reckoning with History: Confederate Monuments in American Cities Practitioner Guide

Publication Date: November 15, 2023

This practitioner guide accompanies case 2235.0. When the Reverend Clementa Pinckney and eight worshipers were massacred during bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015, a widely...