Liquor Tax Reform in Thailand: Competing Interests and Objectives

Publication Date: February 27, 2007

Income tax cuts for individuals and businesses, ambitious government spending plans, financial assistance for citizens affected by the December 2004 tsunami, rising costs of the national healthcare system, and public pressure to curb alcohol...

The St. Xavier Healing Touch Hospital

Publication Date: October 04, 2006

The case is set in a large teaching hospital. Students must analyze the actual and forecasted budgets provided for the previous year to identify the financial difficulties of the hospital. They can then solve costing and budgeting exercises...

The Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus and the City of Mosul, Iraq (Epilogue)

Publication Date: April 10, 2006

This case (1834.0 and related epilogue 1834.1 and abridged case 1834.3)  tells the story of Major General David Petraeus and the US Army's 101st Airborne Division in the months following the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the fall of Baghdad,...

The Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus and the City of Mosul, Iraq

Publication Date: April 10, 2006

This case (1834.0 and related epilogue 1834.1 and abridged case 1834.3) tells the story of Major General David Petraeus and the US Army's 101st Airborne Division in the months following the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the fall of Baghdad, and...

Mr. Nam's Dilemma

Publication Date: September 30, 2005

In 2000, Vietnam passed the Enterprise Law to spur private sector development and facilitate its transition from a centrally-planned to a market economy. The Enterprise Law changed the paradigm for private business in Vietnam by making business...

Liconsa and the Program of Social Assistance for Milk

Publication Date: September 15, 2004

In 2003, officials in Mexico's Ministry of Social Development were debating whether to eliminate a long-standing program that provided subsidized milk to poor families. In its place, they would expand a new program that gave poor families...

BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets

Publication Date: June 01, 2004

Microfinance is a field that has received increasing attention over the years in the development community. It consists of the delivery of financial services to people excluded from traditional banking institutions. For many years, most work was...

Rudy Giuliani: The Man and His Moment

Publication Date: May 01, 2003

In the hours and days following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which destroyed New York's World Trade Center towers, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani distinguished himself, in the view of many, for his style of leadership. A combination...

Winning Hearts and Minds: Reforming the Providence School District (B)

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In August, 2002, Melody Johnson, the deputy superintendent of the Providence, Rhode Island School District, was hastily appointed acting superintendent in the wake of the resignation of her predecessor and close colleague Diana Lam. Lam and...

Winning Hearts and Minds: Reforming the Providence School District (A)

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In August 2002, Melody Johnson, the deputy superintendent of the Providence, Rhode Island School District, was hastily appointed acting superintendent in the wake of the resignation of her predecessor and close colleague Diana Lam. Lam and...

Aung San Suu Kyi: "Icon of Hope" in Burma (B)

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

Aung San Suu Kyi, who would win the Nobel Peace Prize and galvanize world attention on the brutal military rulers of Burma, was, until 1988, an expatriate for much of her life, with largely historical and intellectual connections to the country...

Aung San Suu Kyi: "Icon of Hope" in Burma (A)

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

Aung San Suu Kyi, who would win the Nobel Peace Prize and galvanize world attention on the brutal military rulers of Burma, was, until 1988, an expatriate for much of her life, with largely historical and intellectual connections to the country...