DART's Suburban Service

Publication Date: March 01, 2003

In the spring of 2000, planners at Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), the regional public transit agency serving the Dallas metropolitan area, had to decide whether to cancel or modify a poorly performing bus route serving the suburban cities of...

The Challenge of Multi-Agency Collaboration: Launching a Large-Scale Youth Development Project in Hartford

Publication Date: November 05, 2002

The idea that better "collaboration" among public and private service providers improves the effectiveness of social service programs for the poor is virtually uncontested in social service circles--yet many efforts at collaboration founder...

The Challenge of Multi-Agency Collaboration: Launching a Large-Scale Youth Development Project in Hartford (Sequel)

Publication Date: November 05, 2002

The idea that better "collaboration" among public and private service providers improves the effectiveness of social service programs for the poor is virtually uncontested in social service circles--yet many efforts at collaboration founder...

WBLT Public Television, 1999

Publication Date: November 02, 2002

This disguised case is a vehicle for discussion of the financial situation facing the management of a US public (nonprofit) television station. “WBLT” is a Midwestern station which has matured from simply broadcasting programs produced elsewhere...

Coastal Ventures Limited Partnership: Balancing a Sustainable Investment Strategy with a Social Mission

Publication Date: October 01, 2002

Nat Henshaw, president of CEI Ventures Inc. (CVI) a subsidiary of the nonprofit Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), was involved in a balancing act. He was a manager of a for-profit venture capital fund, Coastal Ventures Limited Partnership (CVLP),...

High Road or Low? Transparency International and the Corruption Perceptions Index

Publication Date: August 1, 2002

The challenge of spurring economic development in poorer nations had perplexed wealthy donor nations during much of the post-colonial, post-World War II period. During the 1990s, there developed a consensus that outside financial assistance was...

A Commercial Bank Does Microfinance: Sogesol in Haiti

Publication Date: July 01, 2002

In 1995 Haiti's banking sector undergoes reform, two important aspects of which are a lowering of the reserve requirement on banks and a lifting of the interest rate ceiling on loans. These reforms give banks the opportunity to expand their...

Women's Thrift Cooperatives in Andhra Pradesh

Publication Date: July 01, 2002

After more than 10 years of operation, the Women's Thrift Cooperatives (WTCs) in the impoverished Karimnagar and Warangal districts of Andhra Pradesh are an established part of the lives of their women members. As such they represent...

Cochin International Airport: Gateway to God's Own Country

Publication Date: March 01, 2002

Cochin International Airport opened in 1999 to widespread acclaim as the first and only airport to be constructed and operated by a private company in India. By 2001 the airport was generating enough revenue to cover its operating costs, but not...

"A Multiplicity of Roles": The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Search for a Director (Sequel)

Publication Date: October 30, 2001

Two years after cutting the ribbon on a dramatic new building, the trustees of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art face a crucial decision: whom to hire as the museum's new executive director. It's a decision that arises in the context of...

"A Multiplicity of Roles": The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Search for a Director

Publication Date: October 30, 2001

Two years after cutting the ribbon on a dramatic new building, the trustees of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art face a crucial decision: whom to hire as the museum's new executive director. It's a decision that arises in the context of...

The Tampa Museum of Science and Industry: The Fowler Avenue Land Problem (Epilogue)

Publication Date: October 30, 2001

When the fast-growing Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida finds out that a key, privately-owned parcel of land adjoining its "campus" is up for sale, it moves quickly--but unsuccessfully--to convince the owner to sell the land...