The Electronic Benefit System in Ramsey County, Minnesota

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When banks in Ramsey County (Saint Paul), Minnesota decide to stop cashing welfare checks, the county faces a crisis. It must continue to provide a way for welfare recipients to receive their benefits. Yet it has exhausted the standard means of...

The Electronic Benefits System in Ramsey County, Minnesota (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When banks in Ramsey County (Saint Paul), Minnesota decide to stop cashing welfare checks, the county faces a crisis. It must continue to provide a way for welfare recipients to receive their benefits. Yet it has exhausted the standard means of...

Court Reporting in Kentucky (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When a shortage of court reporters threatens to delay trials and back up the appeals process, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts considers new technology as a solution to its problem. Video "transcripts" of court proceedings hold the...

Court Reporting in Kentucky (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When a shortage of court reporters threatens to delay trials and back up the appeals process, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts considers new technology as a solution to its problem. Video "transcripts" of court proceedings hold the...

Court Reporting in Kentucky (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When a shortage of court reporters threatens to delay trials and back up the appeals process, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts considers new technology as a solution to its problem. Video "transcripts" of court proceedings hold the...

Court Reporting in Kentucky (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When a shortage of court reporters threatens to delay trials and back up the appeals process, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts considers new technology as a solution to its problem. Video "transcripts" of court proceedings hold the...

Case of the Non-Performing Employee

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

In this disguised case, a senior manager in a federal agency must decide whether to approve the promotion of a secretary. The agency's personnel officer and chief administrative officer have argued that he should okay the promotion, even though...

Sanctions against Toshiba: The Aftermath of a Scandal

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The 1988 revelation that a subsidiary of the Japanese electronics firm Toshiba had supplied sensitive military hardware to the Soviet Union posed a surprisingly complex diplomatic problem for the Reagan administration. Although it had long been...

Mayor Evan Sweeney's Budget Cutbacks

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case is one of a series of hypothetical cases about fictional "Mayor Evan Sweeney," written for executive training programs for new mayors, that frame the quintessential problems faced by municipal chief executives.This case looks at...

"Affective Response": Market Pressures and Medical Practice in the Career of a Young Nurse

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case--one in a series of nursing/health care management cases--explores the boom and bust cycle psychiatric hospitals in Houston went through during the 1980s. It follows a single nurse as he gains increased responsibilities, just as the...

President Salinas' "Untouchables": Fighting Corruption in Mexico

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case explores the issue of widespread and persistent corruption, and the ways in which it so often complicates economic and political development strategies. It recounts the events of the anti-corruption campaign waged during the first two...

Neighborhood Crime Watch in Boston

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case focuses on community responses to the drug problem. It examines one approach to police-community relations in which the police provide technical support to fledgling community groups, hoping to enlist the eyes and ears of concerned...