The Vulnerability Economy: Zero-Days, Cybersecurity, and Public Policy (Epilogue)

Publication Date: February 17, 2015

This epilogue accompanies case 2029.0. In 2011, Dillon Beresford, a computer security expert, discovered a series of new vulnerabilities impacting components of widely used industrial control systems. These new previously unknown...

The Vulnerability Economy: Zero-Days, Cybersecurity, and Public Policy

Publication Date: February 17, 2015

In 2011, Dillon Beresford, a computer security expert, discovered a series of new vulnerabilities impacting components of widely used industrial control systems. These new previously unknown vulnerabilities-what are known as "zero-days"-were...

Buchanan Renewables: Bringing Power to Liberia

Publication Date: December 18, 2014

This case focuses on a proposal to build two, 17 megawatt facilities to provide power to Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. The country has just come out of a bitter civil war in which almost all of its power system was destroyed. The case can be...

Measured Approach: TEGV Assesses Its Performance & Impact on Educational Enrichment Programs

Publication Date: December 18, 2014

This case traces the evolution of thinking about, and the implementation of, performance assessment at one of Turkey's largest and most respected nonprofit organizations, the Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey (TEGV). TEGV delivers a...

Homelessness in Harvard Square: Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Action

Publication Date: September 12, 2014

This case study is set in Harvard Square in 2012-2013, and explores how a diverse group of local stakeholders (e.g. the Cambridge Police Department, city agencies, churches, nonprofit service providers, Harvard Square businesses) comes together...

Wellness is Everyone's Business: Public-Private Partnerships for Health in Minnesota

Publication Date: August 29, 2014

Like many other states at the time, Minnesota found itself facing several serious long-term public health challenges in the mid- and late-2000s, including rapidly rising health care costs and residents' increasing vulnerability to chronic...

Recovery in Aurora: The Public Schools' Response to the July 2012 Movie Theater Shooting (B)

Publication Date: August 29, 2014

In July 2012, a gunman entered a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and opened fire, killing 12 people, injuring 58 others, and traumatizing a community. This case briefly describes the shooting and emergency response but focuses primarily on the...

Recovery in Aurora: The Public Schools' Response to the July 2012 Movie Theater Shooting (A)

Publication Date: August 29, 2014

In July 2012, a gunman entered a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and opened fire, killing 12 people, injuring 58 others, and traumatizing a community. This case briefly describes the shooting and emergency response but focuses primarily on the...

Betting Private Capital on Fixing Public Ills: Instiglio Brings Social Impact Bonds to Colombia

Publication Date: August 01, 2014

In July 2012, three freshly-minted Harvard Kennedy School graduates bought one-way tickets to Medellin, Colombia, to launch a nonprofit startup they called Instiglio. Their idea: to bring Social Impact Bonds, still experimental even in affluent...

Nuclear Power & the Language of Diplomacy: Negotiating a Game-Changing Nuclear Trade Agreement with India (Sequel)

Publication Date: June 18, 2014

This sequel accompanies case number 2023.0. This decision-forcing case focuses on a diplomatic challenge faced by US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran between April and July...

Nuclear Power & the Language of Diplomacy: Negotiating a Game-Changing Nuclear Trade Agreement with India

Publication Date: June 18, 2014

This decision-forcing case focuses on a diplomatic challenge faced by US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran between April and July 2005: the writing of a 400-word joint statement...

In the Crossfire: Guns, Legislative Leadership and Recall Politics in Colorado

Publication Date: June 18, 2014

In 2013, democratic Colorado state senators John Morse and Angela Giron were recalled from office in the wake of a successful recall campaign launched by grassroots groups angered by the senators' support for newly-enacted gun control...