Privatizing Park Maintenance in Buenos Aires (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When a new democratic government takes office in Argentina, the administration of Buenos Aires moves to end inefficiency and overstaffing in its public works department by privatizing maintenance of parks. The initiative enjoys early success...

Privatizing Park Maintenance in Buenos Aires

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When a new democratic government takes office in Argentina, the administration of Buenos Aires moves to end inefficiency and overstaffing in its public works department by privatizing maintenance of parks. The initiative enjoys early success...

The (Julia?) Child's Guide to "e"

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This is a short explanation of how capital investment analyses can be simplified using continuous discounting and the exponential function "e." Cookbook formulas for diverse cost and benefit time patterns are provided.

Regulating the "Cloak and Gown" Relationship: The Harvard CIA Guidelines (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

On the eve of the release of its bombshell report in early 1976, the head of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence quietly informs Harvard University officials that some of the school's faculty members have had secret relationships with...

Regulating the "Cloak and Gown" Relationship: The Harvard CIA Guidelines

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

On the eve of the release of its bombshell report in early 1976, the head of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence quietly informs Harvard University officials that some of the school's faculty members have had secret relationships with...

August Coup (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This is a blow-by-blow account, painstakingly assembled from objective sources on the public record, of the dramatic effort of Soviet conservatives to seize power in August 1991, through the means of a coup d'etat. On one level, the case...

August Coup (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This is a blow-by-blow account, painstakingly assembled from objective sources on the public record, of the dramatic effort of Soviet conservatives to seize power in August 1991, through the means of a coup d'etat. On one level, the case...

An Openly Gay Man in Politics: The Story of Michael Duffy

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This case recounts the political career of a gay Republican who, first, decides to run against an incumbent state legislator who has traditionally been a liberal advocate of gay rights, and, second, decides to accept a Republican governor's...

Wichita Confronts Contamination: Seeking Alternatives to Superfund (B)

Publication Date: January 1, 1992

Long-undetected groundwater contamination, discovered in 1990, by the Kansas Department of Health and Environmental Protection, has a potentially catastrophic economic impact on downtown Wichita, Kansas. The four-mile long, one-and-a-half-mile...

Wichita Confronts Contamination: Seeking Alternatives to Superfund (A)

Publication Date: January 1, 1992

Long-undetected groundwater contamination, discovered in 1990, by the Kansas Department of Health and Environmental Protection, has a potentially catastrophic economic impact on downtown Wichita, Kansas. The four-mile long, one-and-a-half-mile...

Managing Change: Leonard Schaeffer at HCFA and Blue Cross of California

Publication Date: January 1, 1992

This case contrasts one executive's experiences in reorganizing health care financing and delivery systems, first in government, later as the CEO of a major non-profit health insurer. Leonard Schaeffer reflects on what he views as the different...

Denver's International Airport: A Case Study in Large Scale Infrastructure Development (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This case examines the political negotiations which paved the way for the construction of the first major new airport to be built in the United States in the past 20 years. The A case describes the negotiations which led to a memorandum of...