Parks and Partnership in New York City (C): Riverside Park, Soldiers' & Sailors' Plaza

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

This is the third, in a series of cases, that details the means by which New York City's Parks Department sought private funds to maintain public properties in Riverside Park, on the west side of Manhattan. The case outlines the complex internal...

Making the Madisonian System Work: Case Studies in Contemporary American Government

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

The cases in this collection, taken from the Kennedy School's Senior Executive Fellows Program for federal public managers, are based on the experiences of public sector managers, and designed for would--be or active practitioners focused on...

DC Agenda: A Nonprofit 'Intermediary' Arrives at a Crossroads (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

This epilogue accompanies the case 1777.0. This case details the emergence and challenges of a nonprofit, blue-ribbon citizens' group which sought to influence public discourse and decisions surrounding Washington D.C.'s financial crisis in the...

DC Agenda: A Nonprofit 'Intermediary' Arrives at a Crossroads

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

This case details the emergence and challenges of a nonprofit, blue-ribbon citizens' group which sought to influence public discourse and decisions surrounding Washington D.C.'s financial crisis in the early 1990s. DC Agenda, founded in 1974 by...

Convener or Player? The World Economic Forum and Davos

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

The Swiss alpine resort Davos became, during the last quarter of the 20th century, synonymous with a conference which made possible informal conversations amongst some of the world's most successful and influential people. Over time, global...

Placebo Trials in Africa: The African American Dilemma at the Centers for Disease Control (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

In 1997, a small group of African American doctors and scientists on the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found themselves on the horns of a painful dilemma. For months, they had been making known their objections to...

Placebo Trials in Africa: The African American Dilemma at the Centers for Disease Control

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

In 1997, a small group of African American doctors and scientists on the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found themselves on the horns of a painful dilemma. For months, they had been making known their objections to...

The Ad Hoc Conference and Sammy Sockeye

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

When a career public employee in a research division of the US Forest Service gets a call from a lobbyist for a coalition of environmental advocacy groups, he finds himself confronting an opportunity of which he's not sure it's right to avail...

A Letter to Professor Dutch Leonard

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

This letter to a Kennedy School faculty member from a former student is a plea for advice about one of the most difficult dilemmas faced by public employees in a bureaucratic chain of command: what to do when one thinks a new boss is moving an...

Trapped in a Dysfunctional Family

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

This human resource/career management case focuses on a newly-promoted mid-level manager in the US Social Security Administration who finds that what he thought was good news--his appointment as director of the administrative and matching staff...

Robust Web of Corruption: Peru's Intelligence Chief Vladimiro Montesinos

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

In 1990, President Alberto Fujimori swept to power in Peru on a wave of public enthusiasm for his promised reforms. Indeed, over the next five years Fujimori accomplished something of an economic turnaround miracle. He also vanquished a...

Neighborhood Conservation Services of Barberton: Responding to Change in the Magic City

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

In the late 1990s, the leadership of Neighborhood Conservation Services (NCS) of Barberton, Ohio--a nonprofit housing rehabilitation organization founded two decades earlier to help reverse the decline of this aging industrial city--found its...