Buying the Beretta: The Army's Dilemma (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

A handgun is a soldier's weapon of last resort. Face to face with the enemy, with no other means of fighting available save their bare hands, soldiers have always reached for the handguns holstered at their sides. Since 1911 the legendary Colt ...

Buying the Beretta: The Army's Dilemma (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

A handgun is a soldier's weapon of last resort. Face to face with the enemy, with no other means of fighting available save their bare hands, soldiers have always reached for the handguns holstered at their sides. Since 1911 the legendary Colt ...

Industry Policy and Competition in US Navy (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1984, the US Navy began the task of choosing a shipyard to build the first in a new class of guided missile destroyers, the last major surface combatant ships to be constructed for the navy in the 20th century. In an era when the shipbuilding...

Industry Policy and Competition in US Navy

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1984, the US Navy began the task of choosing a shipyard to build the first in a new class of guided missile destroyers, the last major surface combatant ships to be constructed for the navy in the 20th century. In an era when the shipbuilding...

Mayor Evan Sweeney and the Police

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

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 the...

The SEC and EDGAR

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

When the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to try to improve the speed and spread of the new information about firms contained in SEC filings, he turned to a computer system. On one level, the Electronic Data Gathering,...

The Indian Ocean Negotiations

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In June 1977, US and Soviet negotiators met in Moscow for the first round of talks on arms control in the Indian Ocean. Over the preceding decade, the growing political importance of that area had led both nations to establish a limited naval...

The Reykjavik Summit: Watershed or Washout?

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

On October 11 and 12, 1986, at Reykjavik, Iceland, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan met for the second time. The issues they intended to address--nuclear arms reductions, the future relationship of...

Lyndon Johnson and Czechoslovakia, 1968: Non-Intervention by Default?

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

The Soviet Union's 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia posed particularly awkward problems for the United States. The US had, since the Truman administration in 1949, been on record in support of governments resisting communist domination. The long...

Finding Black Parents: One Church, One Child (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1980, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services faced a crisis. Over 700 black children in Cook County, including 69 infants, waited for adoption while the agency was unable to find black parents. Director Gregory L. Color, with...

Presidents as Sovereigns

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This excerpt from Richard Neustadt's lecture "Presidents, Politics and Analysis" is written in the style of the Neustadt and May's "Thinking in Time" cases, with their emphasis on the use of historical analogy in considering policymaking. This...

Jean Ekins and the Family Learning Center (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

During the 1978-79 school year, the state of Michigan turned down Jean Ekins' application for model-site designation of her Leslie, Michigan Family Learning Center. Ekins had started the program four years earlier within the Leslie public school...