Treating Tuberculosis: Responding to an Epidemic

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

This "thinking-in-time" style case recalls the American response to the tuberculosis epidemic at the turn of the century. It provides a vehicle to look at the social and political forces promoting a variety of types of care--particularly the...

F-14: After the Ink Was Dry

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

In 1969, the United States Navy signed a firm fixed price contract with Grumman Corporation for the development and production of the F-14 fighter plane. Within months after the contract was signed, however, Grumman began to signal the Navy that...

US-Canada Free Trade Negotiations (II): The Canadian Dilemma

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

In August 1987, Canadian negotiators concluded another round in their 15 months of talks with the US aimed at reaching free trade agreement between the two nations. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and President Ronald Reagan had launched the trade...

Terrorism in the Cour d'Assises: The US v. France v. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

The trial in France of Lebanese national Georges Abdallah, accused in the murder of an American diplomat, forces the US Justice Department to consider strategies aimed at ensuring conviction and a prison term while having to work through the...

A Man and His Mission: Joseph Taussig and Navy Safety

Publication Date: January 1, 1989

In the summer of 1985, a 65-year-old disabled Navy veteran, Joseph K. Taussig, Jr., became the Navy's first designated high-level safety specialist. As a special assistant to the Navy secretary, Taussig was appointed to do what he could to make...

SS-9 Controversy: Intelligence as Political Football

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

When Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird shocks the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with the view that a new Soviet missile will provide the USSR with a "first-strike" nuclear capability, the Central Intelligence Agency finds it must consider...

John Lehman and the Press: Reflections on Lehman's Approach (B)

Publication Date: January 1, 1989

A secretary of the navy with a well-defined policy agenda ("the 600-ship navy") and a powerful sense of mission enlists the press as an ally through a series of deft encounters. This case allows for discussion/identification of the key elements...

John Lehman and the Press: Communicating the Robinson Decision (A) (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 1, 1989

A secretary of the navy with a well-defined policy agenda ("the 600-ship navy") and a powerful sense of mission enlists the press as an ally through a series of deft encounters. This case allows for discussion/identification of the key elements...

John Lehman and the Press (A)

Publication Date: January 1, 1989

A secretary of the navy with a well-defined policy agenda ("the 600-ship navy") and a powerful sense of mission enlists the press as an ally through a series of deft encounters. This case allows for discussion/identification of the key elements...

Politician as Outsider: Judy Nadler and the Santa Clara City Council (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

A California city councilwoman must decide whether to urge a legal investigation into the relationship between city officials and a major local developer. The relationship between politics and whistle-blowing is fraught with peril and ambiguity...

Politician as Outsider: Judy Nadler and the Santa Clara City Council

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

A California city councilwoman must decide whether to urge a legal investigation into the relationship between city officials and a major local developer. The relationship between politics and whistle-blowing is fraught with peril and ambiguity...

Battle of the Alamodome: Henry Cisneros and the San Antonio Stadium (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

Major government-funded public works projects are often touted both for the needs they will fulfill and the jobs they will provide. This case examines the assumptions underlying San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros' push for publicly financed...