Financing Environmental Improvements in Slovakia: The Slovak Environmental Revolving Investment Fund

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

The fall of the Iron Curtain revealed previously unimagined environmental degradation in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the newly-independent Slovak Republic, untreated waste flowed into the rivers, heavy industry clouded...

Policing Northern Ireland: A Question of Balance (B)

Publication Date: January 1, 1993

How can normal social order be kept in a country racked by political disorder? This case describes the extreme difficulties faced by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Northern Ireland as it struggles to define its role in a society divided by...

Policing Northern Ireland: A Question of Primacy (A)

Publication Date: January 1, 1993

How can normal social order be kept in a country racked by political disorder? This case describes the extreme difficulties faced by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Northern Ireland as it struggles to define its role in a society divided by...

A Welfare System that Works for Everyone: The Montgomery County, Indiana, Department of Public Welfare

Publication Date: January 1, 1993

This case examines the efforts of a new manager to improve morale at a rural Indiana county's Department of Public Welfare. Keith Weedman approaches his task not merely as a matter of better internal management but as one of changing the...

Implementing Income Tax Reform in Democratic Spain (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

This case examines the challenge of implementing a major change in public policy in Spain in the post-Franco period, namely the shift from a tax system in which tax liabilities were inferred from objective, non-monetary indicators to one that...

Who Should Own What? Choosing a Public Sector in a Newly Capitalist State (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

The process of privatization of state-owned industries looms as one the most difficult social, economic, and political challenges of our era. This case examines the dilemma as seen through the prism of Hungary where the newly-established State...

Who Should Own What? Choosing a Public Sector in a Newly Capitalist State

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

The process of privatization of state-owned industries looms as one the most difficult social, economic, and political challenges of our era. This case examines the dilemma as seen through the prism of Hungary where the newly-established State...

Disability Issues in the Workplace

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

This composite case explores the managerial, ethical, and logistical issues that arise when a federal employee is diagnosed with breast cancer and has difficulty dealing with her job responsibilities and co-worker reactions. The case ends with...

The Treuhandanstalt: Taking a Nation Private

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

The dramatic merger of the former East and West Germanys led to an historic mission for a new agency: the sale to private buyers of the vast assets of the former East Germany. The agency created for the purpose was the Treuhandanstalt, conceived...

Hungary: Forging New Channels of Communication

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

The collapse of communism in Hungary, as in other Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union itself, has not led smoothly to a democratic government in its place. The transition from a government which is, in most ways, an extension...

Incentives for Excellence at the Colorado State Hospital

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

The successful efforts of an energetic director to improve conditions at the Colorado State Hospital lead to an unexpected consequence: legislative budget committee members, after a tour, take the view that the hospital, because it looked so...

Ordering Floppy Disks in Poland

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This five-paragraph case presents the process by which a basic office supply item had to be ordered by Polish government officials in January 1992.Learning Objective:As in many brief cases, the deceptively simple procedural description can...