The Turnaround Artist: Craig Coy Tackles Political Influence at Massport

Publication Date: November 24, 2008

Craig Coy, a business executive, retired Coast Guard officer, and former White House security adviser, was named executive director of the Massachusett's Port Authority, or Massport, on April 11, 2002. The appointment came at a time of...

Keeping an Open Mind in an Emergency: CDC experiments with 'Team B'

Publication Date: November 20, 2008

The CDC's chief response in a public health emergency was to undertake a high-speed scientific investigation--combining epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory data--in order to identify, then come up with strategies to prevent, contain, and...

"Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (Sequel)

Publication Date: October 15, 2008

This sequel case accompanies "Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (A & B). On January 11, 2006, residents of New Orleans's Broadmoor neighborhood, which still bore the deep scars...

"Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (B)

Publication Date: October 15, 2008

This B case accompanies "Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (A). On January 11, 2006, residents of New Orleans's Broadmoor neighborhood, which still bore the deep scars left by...

"Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (A)

Publication Date: October 15, 2008

On January 11, 2006, residents of New Orleans's Broadmoor neighborhood, which still bore the deep scars left by Hurricane Katrina, were shocked by the headlines in The Times-Picayune. The Urban Planning Committee of a mayoral commission charged...

Thin on the Ground: Deploying Scarce Resources in the October 2007 Southern California Wildfires

Publication Date: October 10, 2008

The October 2007 wildfire siege in southern California posed a major challenge for the state firefighting system. In a three-day span, more than 200 brush fires ignited. Whipped by intense Santa Ana winds, 22 of them grew almost instantly into...

Experiments in Public Procurement: Italy Buys in Bulk (Sequel)

Publication Date: September 30, 2008

Under pressure from the European Union, which had admitted Italy to the Eurozone hesitantly, on condition that the country control its deficit spending and reduce its high public debt, the central government in Italy initiated dozens of...

Experiments in Public Procurement: Italy Buys in Bulk

Publication Date: September 30, 2008

Under pressure from the European Union, which had admitted Italy to the Eurozone hesitantly, on condition that the country control its deficit spending and reduce its high public debt, the central government in Italy initiated dozens of...

Mikhukhu People of South Africa: A Question of Survival (Abridged)

Publication Date: September 19, 2008

This is an abridged version of case 1291.0. It focuses on an organization established to fight for the housing rights of people living in "informal settlements" in apartheid-era South Africa. In the wake of democratization, the group finds...

Rural Electrification in Nicaragua (Abridged)

Publication Date: August 18, 2008

In the fall of 2001, officials of the National Energy Commission of Nicaragua were reviewing a pilot study of the options for electrification in three rural communities. Rural electrification was an important issue in Nicaragua since 40 percent...

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

Publication Date: July 21, 2008

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...

Vision Mumbai

Publication Date: July 01, 2008

In 2006, officials of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the State of Maharashtra were beginning to implement a plan to improve the economic fortunes of the city. Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, was India's richest city, with...