Mayor Evan Sweeney's Budget Cutbacks (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This 4-page sequel to HKS Case 1068.0 is part of a series of hypothetical sketches about quintessential municipal leadership problems facing fictional "Mayor Evan Sweeney." This case looks at tradeoffs and strategic options available to the...

Mayor Evan Sweeney: Grievances in the Public Works Department

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 concerns labor...

Reforming the Rabat Bus System (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This two-part case is based in the situation of La Regie, the public transit system in Morocco's capital city. The case is told from the point of view of an advisor to the country's Ministry of Interior, who must implement a directive from the...

Reforming the Rabat Bus System (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This two-part case is based in the situation of La Regie, the public transit system in Morocco's capital city. The case is told from the point of view of an advisor to the country's Ministry of Interior, who must implement a directive from the...

Burning Down the House: The Sherwin-Williams Warehouse Fire of 1987 (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case tells the dramatic story of the most spectacular fire to strike Dayton, Ohio in many years--and the decision of the city's fire chief not to put it out. This is a decision-forcing case which asks readers to consider the dilemma of...

Solving Seattle's Solid Waste Crisis (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The closing of two landfill sites creates a municipal crisis in Seattle, forced to find new disposal options for the 2,000 tons of garbage it produces each day. Political concerns over what appears to be the most practical disposal...

Sunshine and Shadow: The CIA and the Soviet Economy

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

After nearly 40 years of steady, rigorous, remarkably open, and respected analysis of the Soviet economy, the CIA stood accused in the early 1990s of having gotten the answer badly wrong: so much so that Daniel Patrick Moynihan had called for...

Burning Down the House: The Sherwin-Williams Warehouse Fire of 1987

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case tells the dramatic story of the most spectacular fire to strike Dayton, Ohio in many years--and the decision of the city's fire chief not to put it out. This is a decision-forcing case which asks readers to consider the dilemma of...

Solving Seattle's Solid Waste Crisis

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The closing of two landfill sites creates a municipal crisis in Seattle, forced to find new disposal options for the 2,000 tons of garbage it produces each day. Political concerns over what appears to be the most practical disposal...

US Marines in Lebanon

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The 1983 terrorist bombing of the US Marines barracks in Lebanon, in addition to its tragic toll of 241 dead, has become a quintessential case about the conditions under which military intervention may not be effective.Learning Objective:This...

Orange Hats of Fairlawn: A Washington, D.C. Neighborhood Battles Drugs

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When the trade in crack cocaine spills over into a previously safe and calm lower-middle class black neighborhood in the District of Columbia, resourceful and courageous residents try novel ways to halt the drug traffic. Among other tactics,...

Reagan Administration and the Soviet Pipeline Embargo

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The Reagan administration decision to impose economic sanctions designed to halt construction of a Soviet gas pipeline built to supply Western Europe led, starting in late 1981, to a serious split among the NATO allies. The administration's...