Cancún, Mexico: Water System Privatization

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

This case focuses on the privatization of water and sanitation services in the city of Cancún, Mexico. Cancún's growth from a small fishing village in the 1970s to a major international tourist destination by the 1990s overwhelmed...

The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (C)

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

When a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers in the famous, videotaped beating of a black motorist stopped for speeding, the decision sparked shock, outrage and, in short order, riot in the city's African-American South Central section...

The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (B)

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

When a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers in the famous, videotaped beating of a black motorist stopped for speeding, the decision sparked shock, outrage and, in short order, riot in the city's African-American South Central section...

Breaking the "Circle of Poison": Senator Patrick Leahy and Pesticide Export Controls

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

What would prompt an elected official to take on what appears to be a moral cause with little immediate political benefit? That is the implicit political ethics question raised by this case, which describes the somewhat quixotic, decade-long...

Implementing Education Reform in India: The Primary School Textbook Debate and Resistance to Change in Kerala

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

As the 1998-99 school year began in the state of Kerala, India, state education officials were setting out to bring radical change to government schools. A new approach designed to be child-friendly and to de-emphasize rote learning and...

Bangkok's Skytrain (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 2000

In December 1999 Skytrain, the first rail mass transit line to be financed, built and operated by a private company in at least 50 years, opened in Bangkok, Thailand. Skytrain's owners had a concession from the Bangkok metropolitan government to...

Bangkok's Skytrain (A): Opening the System

Publication Date: July 01, 2000

In December 1999 Skytrain, the first rail mass transit line to be financed, built and operated by a private company in at least 50 years, opened in Bangkok, Thailand. Skytrain's owners had a concession from the Bangkok metropolitan government to...

Stepping Up to the 'Net: The Land Trust Alliance's Efforts to Make Strategic Use of the Internet

Publication Date: July 01, 2000

This case focuses on the challenges faced by the managers of a growing conservation nonprofit who are striving to make strategic use of the Internet. Well beyond simply posting static "brochureware" on the World Wide Web, these managers are...

Kmart Union in Greensboro Fights for a Contract: Reaching Out, Re-framing the Issue (B)

Publication Date: June 01, 2000

When the employees of a Kmart distribution center in Greensboro, North Carolina vote to unionize, they encounter difficulty in negotiating a contract with their employer, which viewed wages and working conditions as in keeping with regional...

Kmart Union in Greensboro Fights for a Contract: Early Days Exhilarating and Frustrating (A)

Publication Date: June 01, 2000

When the employees of a Kmart distribution center in Greensboro, North Carolina vote to unionize, they encounter difficulty in negotiating a contract with their employer, which viewed wages and working conditions as in keeping with regional...

Anthrax Threats in Southern California

Publication Date: May 1, 2000

This case, one of a series written for the Kennedy School/US Department of Justice Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, explores the question of how law enforcement agencies should respond to a threat with the potential for catastrophe...

Higher Education Harvest

Publication Date: April 03, 2000

Rebecca Wilson, a recent policy school graduate, has started an unexpectedly successful small nonprofit to help urban high school students tap the many sources of financial aid for post-secondary education and thus boost their odds of attending...