The KIDSNET Story: Can a Medical-Information System Improve Public Health?

Publication Date: September 27, 2005

In January 1997, the Rhode Island Department of Public Health inaugurated KIDSNET, an effort to harness the power of information technology to ensure that all children in the state received proper preventive care. The medical informatics system...

Beyond Cooperation: Gender, Activism, and Self-Help in Maharashtra (Epilogue)

Publication Date: September 19, 2005

In February, 2004, the general manager of the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank failed to show up for work several days in a row. His absence followed a meeting of the full staff of the bank with the chair of the board, Chetna Sinha, in which...

Beyond Cooperation: Gender, Activism, and Self-Help in Maharashtra

Publication Date: September 19, 2005

In February 2004, the general manager of the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank failed to show up for work several days in a row. His absence followed a meeting of the full staff of the bank with the chair of the board, Chetna Sinha, in which...

The Social Construction of Gender: Microfinance and Fa'afafines in Samoa

Publication Date: September 19, 2005

In 2003, Minh Lai, manager of the South Pacific Business Development Foundation (SPBD), a nonprofit microfinance institution providing financial services to women in Samoa, made a decision to lend to fa'afafines after several asked whether SPBD...

Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship: South Pacific Business Development Foundation

Publication Date: September 19, 2005

American businessman, Greg Casagrande, founder and president of the South Pacific Business Development Foundation (SPBD) in Samoa has a decision to make: who should he hire to be the next general manager of SPBD, when the contract of his current...

Upwardly Global: Building a Model for Assisting Immigrant Professionals

Publication Date: September 19, 2005

This social entrepreneurship case focuses on the start-up and first four years of Upwardly Global, a San Francisco-based nonprofit founded to help place immigrant professionals in jobs commensurate with their levels of skill and education...

Security Planning for the 2004 Democratic National Convention (Epilogue)

Publication Date: September 12, 2005

When the city of Boston applied to host the Democratic Party presidential nominating convention of July 2004, it did so in the belief that the event would bring the city both prestige and economic benefit. But by the time the convention was to...

Security Planning for the 2004 Democratic National Convention (B)

Publication Date: September 12, 2005

When the city of Boston applied to host the Democratic Party presidential nominating convention of July 2004, it did so in the belief that the event would bring the city both prestige and economic benefit. But by the time the convention was to...

Security Planning for the 2004 Democratic National Convention (A)

Publication Date: September 12, 2005

When the city of Boston applied to host the Democratic Party presidential nominating convention of July 2004, it did so in the belief that the event would bring the city both prestige and economic benefit. But by the time the convention was to...

The Defense Minister's Decision

Publication Date: August 04, 2005

An elected but corrupt populist President, who is completing his second term, has suggested that he will remain in office by whatever means necessary. Large segments of the public in the capital city take to the streets to demand that the...

Should the Constitution be Amended?

Publication Date: August 04, 2005

Senator Juan Santos must cast a decisive vote for or against amending the fledgling Constitution to allow the popular and successful incumbent president a second six year term. Aware of the public's and his constituents' strong support of an...

Reforming Prague City Hall: The Efforts of Mayor Jan Kasl to Increase Transparency and Fight Corruption (B)

Publication Date: July 22, 2005

In November 1998, Jan Kasl, a successful architect and erstwhile city councilor, was his party's surprise choice for mayor of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. A virtual political unknown, Kasl was chosen for the post only after...