New Kingdoms for the Five Kings: Discriminatory Redistricting and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case explores the decade-long political struggle over the geography of districts to be represented by members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the implication of the district lines for the political representation of...

Spreading the Gospel: The Origin and Growth of the DARE Program (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

A program originated in Los Angeles to bring police officers, preaching an anti-drug message, to public school classrooms, not only seems to show promise but spreads quickly across the US. Is the idea itself so good that others simply rush to...

Containing the Employment Guarantee Scheme: Reform in the Rural Employment Program

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme is one of the most effective existing public programs dealing with rural unemployment in a developing country. This case describes the charges of corruption in the scheme, made by political opponents of...

Ruthless with Time and Gracious with People?: Teleservice at the Social Security Administration

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

Within three years of its implementation, the Social Security Administration's nationwide 800 telephone service was handling the largest volume of 800 calls of any organization in the world. In addition to this volume, approximately 15 million...

Closing the Market: Controlling the Drug Trade in Tampa, Florida

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The advent of "crack" cocaine in the mid-1980s hit Tampa, Florida like other American cities: hard. Among the crack-related phenomena which arose was that of the open-air drug market, outdoor gatherings of bold and violent drug dealers who...

An Ordeal in Iran (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An American business executive in revolutionary Iran seeks to take a series of steps to allow hundreds of his firm's employees to safely escape the country. But doing so, he finds, means doing business with a merchant who asks something in...

An Ordeal in Iran

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An American business executive in revolutionary Iran seeks to take a series of steps to allow hundreds of his firm's employees to safely escape the country. But doing so, he finds, means doing business with a merchant who asks something in...

United Neighbors Against Drugs

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case, like the others in the drugs and law enforcement series, focuses on the efforts of a grassroots community group and on its dealings with police. The case is distinguished, however, by the fact that the community group is organized by...

Trials and Tribulation: New Balloon Pumps for the Brigham (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

A key decision at a major teaching hospital as to which type of "balloon pump" to purchase for treating heart disease patients becomes a test of the organization's commitment to creating a decision-making process in which a variety of interests...

Trials and Tribulation: New Balloon Pumps for the Brigham

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

A key decision at a major teaching hospital as to which type of "balloon pump" to purchase for treating heart disease patients becomes a test of the organization's commitment to creating a decision-making process in which a variety of interests...

Summit or Stand-Off: Responding to Lithuania's Bid for Independence

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

For some five decades, the United States considered the Baltic Republic of Lithuania to be a "captive nation," a country that had been annexed against its will into the Soviet Union. The US had never formally accepted the annexation, although...

Last Rights: Honoring a Patient's Wishes for Artificial Feeding (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

After an elderly woman, in apparently failing health, is sent to a nursing home, the nursing staff becomes convinced that she is responding to care and treatment. In the wake of new medical problems, however, the physician hired by her family...