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...

Redheaded Stepchild and the Favorite Son: Resolving Disparities between Norfolk, VA's Paramedical Rescue Service and Fire Department (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A long-term decline in the city's number of fires, coupled with a long-term increase in calls for emergency medical services, seems to call for Norfolk, Virginia budget officials to take obvious steps: cut back the number of firefighters and...

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

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...

Redheaded Stepchild and the Favorite Son: Resolving Disparities between Norfolk, VA's Paramedical Rescue Service and Fire Department

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A long-term decline in the city's number of fires, coupled with a long-term increase in calls for emergency medical services, seems to call for Norfolk, Virginia budget officials to take obvious steps: cut back the number of firefighters and...

Medicine and the Profit Motive: The Proposed Sale of McLean Hospital (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When a major for-profit US hospital corporation proposes to buy a prominent psychiatric hospital owned, at that point, by a non-profit hospital, the medical staff becomes alarmed.Learning Objective:A prominent medical school, whose relationship...

Incentives for Excellence at the Colorado State Hospital

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

The successful efforts of an energetic director to improve conditions at the Colorado State Hospital lead to an unexpected consequence: legislative budget committee members, after a tour, take the view that the hospital, because it looked so...

Igniting the Passions: Private vs. Public Fire Service in Suburban Phoenix

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

Unlike most metropolitan areas in the United States, Phoenix, Arizona, and its suburbs present a striking contrast in the means of delivering one of the most basic services for which government is responsible: fire protection. Many of the city's...

Managing a Press "Feeding Frenzy": Gregory Coler and the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A reform-minded director of one of the largest human services agencies in the United States brings an aggressive, entrepreneurial approach to his task. In his first two years on the job, Gregory Coler appears to awaken a slumbering agency,...