Expanding Health Insurance to Millions: Learning from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

Publication Date: May 22, 2014

In 2008, the state of Oregon had the budget to enroll 10,000 individuals into Medicaid. But officials knew that demand for Medicaid would be far greater. To give all poor, uninsured Oregonians a fair chance at receiving health insurance, the...

Derailed on Arrival? Jay Walder & the NY MTA's Surprise Budget Crisis

Publication Date: June 29, 2012

How to fill a sudden, massive budget deficit with least damage to the public and the long term well-being of the agency? That complex question was at the heart of the dilemma faced in 2010 by Jay Walder, incoming CEO of New York's Metropolitan...

Rebuilding Aceh: Indonesia's BRR Spearheads Post-Tsunami Recovery (Epilogue)

Publication Date: April 30, 2014

This epilogue accompanies Case Number 2010.0, "Rebuilding Aceh: Indonesia's BRR Spearheads Post-Tsunami Recovery." The December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami caused tremendous damage and suffering on several continents, with Indonesia's Aceh...

Rebuilding Aceh: Indonesia's BRR Spearheads Post-Tsunami Recovery

Publication Date: April 30, 2014

The December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami caused tremendous damage and suffering on several continents, with Indonesia's Aceh Province (located on the far northern tip of Sumatra Island) experiencing the very worst. In the tsunami's wake--and...

Performance Management for Health in Washington State

Publication Date: April 30, 2014

By the mid-2000s, Washington State's Department of Health (DOH) had earned a national reputation as an innovative and effective agency. But beginning in 2005, when newly elected Governor Christine Gregoire introduced a state-level performance...

Hero or Traitor? Edward Snowden and the NSA Spying Program

Publication Date: April 30, 2014

On June 5, 2013, a London newspaper reported that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers in the U.S. The story was the first of many top secret revelations about the...

Primary Education in Pakistan: Show Me the Evidence

Publication Date: April 30, 2014

This case has two parts, a text-based case and a supplemental PowerPoint presentation. The case traces the evolution of an evidence-based research study on the education sector in Pakistan. In 2003, Atish (fictionalized character), a...

Role Responsibility, Official Disobedience, and the Supreme Court's Ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act

Publication Date: April 30, 2014

In June, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the federal Defense of Marriage Act violated the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection of equal liberty, effectively overturning the law. Pennsylvania, however, banned same-sex...

Health Care Reform in Massachusetts: Impacts on Public Health

Publication Date: April 24, 2014

In 2006, with healthcare costs and the number of uninsured rising, Massachusetts passed landmark legislation that aimed to provide health insurance to everyone in the state. A product of bipartisan collaboration between a legislature dominated...

Knowledge Management at the World Bank: Part 2

Publication Date: March 13, 2014

This case is about how the World Bank, after determining that the creation and dissemination of knowledge to the international development community was one of their strategic roles and objectives, transitioned from being just a lending bank to...

Providing Pensions for the Poor: Targeting Cash Transfers for the Elderly in Mexico

Publication Date: March 05, 2014

When the Mexican Congress approved the country's 2007 budget, it included an appropriation of 8.5 billion pesos allocated to provide non-contributive pensions to senior citizens. President Felipe Calderon wanted to introduce eligibility criteria...

Target of Opportunity: South Africa's Western Cape Seeks a Role in the African Oil Boom

Publication Date: March 05, 2014

This strategy case describes an initiative in the Western Cape province of South Africa to capitalize on an oil boom off the western coast of Africa by cultivating an industrial cluster of complementary businesses with the capacity to service,...