The Job Negotiation: A three-party, email-based, employment offer negotiation

Publication Date: April 8, 2016

Scenario:Jordan Webb, a current master’s student, negotiates via email (simultaneously) with two tech firms who are potential employers. Both firms have offered to create a new position for Jordan, as the Director of Community Engagement, to manage...

A Different Approach to Child Labor: Ecuador's Working Boys' Center

Publication Date: March 28, 2016

The eradication of child labor worldwide has long been a goal of the United Nations, the International Labor Organization, and a host of NGOs, yet child labor has proven stubbornly resistant to reform efforts, even when cash and other incentives...

A Rising Storm: Eric Garner and the Explosive Controversy over Race & Policing

Publication Date: March 3, 2016

The controversial choking death of Eric Garner in New York City in 2014 is the point of departure for this rich and complex case, which tackles difficult questions of race, crime, and policing in poor, racially-isolated urban neighborhoods. The...

Innovating by the Book: The Introduction of Innovation Teams in Memphis and New Orleans

Publication Date: January 29, 2016

Can an innovation model be used to solve seemingly intractable problems consistently, reliably and effectively? In 2011, Bloomberg Philanthropies founder and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a $24 million initiative to fund...

Fighting Pollution with Data: Environmental Audits and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board

Publication Date: January 11, 2016

In 2010, the overwhelmed Pollution Control Board in the Indian state of Gujarat faced a difficult path ahead. The agency charged with monitoring and enforcing pollution regulations in the heavily industrialized state had a problematic...

A Delicate Balance: The International Criminal Court’s Process for Identifying New Cases

Publication Date: October 13, 2015

Ever since it was created, in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been the subject of high expectations and frequent controversy over its selection of cases. This 5-page multimedia website challenges students to put themselves in...

Fighting Bonded Labor in Rural India: Village Activist Gyarsi Bai Tackles an Entrenched System of Coercion

Publication Date: October 13, 2015

A multimedia case is an integral part of the case study. It features short interviews with Gyarsi Bai, the case protagonist, as well as three former bonded laborers. In October 2010, the beating of a young bonded laborer--his punishment for...

The Quest for Sustainable Public Transit Funding: SEPTA’s 2013 Capital Budget Crisis (Sequel)

Publication Date: October 7, 2015

Designed for a course in public finance or in transportation, this case describes the financial crisis that, in 2013, loomed over the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the transit system serving Philadelphia and four...

The Quest for Sustainable Public Transit Funding: SEPTA’s 2013 Capital Budget Crisis

Publication Date: October 7, 2015

Designed for a course in public finance or in transportation, this case describes the financial crisis that, in 2013, loomed over the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the transit system serving Philadelphia and four...

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: Vice Admiral John Mateczun and JTF CapMed (A) (Epilogue)

Publication Date: September 17, 2015

This case is part of a four part series that examines the merger of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Military Center at Bethesda--the most expensive, controversial and largest hospital merger in US history. The series...

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: Integrating Army and Navy Cultures at the New Walter Reed (B)

Publication Date: September 17, 2015

This case is part of a four part series that examines the merger of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Military Center at Bethesda--the most expensive, controversial and largest hospital merger in US history. The series...

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: Vice Admiral John Mateczun and JTF CapMed (A)

Publication Date: September 17, 2015

This case is part of a four part series that examines the merger of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Military Center at Bethesda--the most expensive, controversial and largest hospital merger in US history. The series...