Legacy, Transition, and Growth: The Case of BRIDGE Housing Corporation

Publication Date: August 08, 2012

Legacy, Transition, and Growth: The Case of BRIDGE Housing Corporation concerns the issues that a leading regional nonprofit housing company faced after its charismatic founder, Don Terner, tragically and unexpectedly died. It covers the...

Hard-Won Accord: British Columbia & EDS Canada Tackle a Complex Contract Negotiation (Abridged)

Publication Date: August 02, 2012

When a public sector agency decides to privatize a large government function (as opposed to a more discreet job), the process of negotiating the service contract becomes a more complex and far-reaching endeavor. This case study describes the...

Gainesville Regional Utilities' Feed-in Tariff (Epilogue)

Publication Date: August 01, 2012

Inspired by the experiences in Germany and Spain, Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) developed a pilot feed-in tariff to stimulate investment into solar photovoltaic systems. This case explores the factors behind the decision to promulgate a...

Gainesville Regional Utilities' Feed-in Tariff

Publication Date: August 01, 2012

Inspired by the experiences in Germany and Spain, Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) developed a pilot feed-in tariff to stimulate investment into solar photovoltaic systems. This case explores the factors behind the decision to promulgate a...

Moving People out of Danger: Special Needs Evacuations from Gulf Coast Hurricanes (B)

Publication Date: June 22, 2012

This case examines the steps political leaders, emergency management professionals, and public health officials in Louisiana and Texas took to improve their capacity to evacuate, shelter, and repatriate individuals with special needs following...

Google.org: For-Profit Philanthropy

Publication Date: April 16, 2012

The Google.org: For-Profit Philanthropy case introduces a distinct social enterprise structure, a combination of a philanthropic division of a for-profit corporation and a nonprofit foundation. The case provides an up-to-date, in-depth...

Michelle Rhee and the Washington D.C. Public Schools

Publication Date: April 05, 2012

The case opens in 2007, when the Washington, D.C. public school system was failing. Parents, politicians, labor unions, and activists all agreed that reform was necessary due to abysmal student test scores, attendance records, and safety...

The Privatization of OSSH

Publication Date: March 05, 2012

On May 29, 2009 the Czech electricity company, CEZ, paid 102 million euro for 76 percent of the stock of Albania's electricity distribution system operator OSSH. The transaction was the culmination of almost two decades of efforts to improve an...

Sea Change: Re-Writing the Rules for Port Security

Publication Date: February 15, 2012

Consisting of a 30-min. video mini-documentary and an 11-page backgrounder, this case explores the innovative approach used by the Coast Guard to manage the process of developing new regulations that would increase port security in the wake of...

Regulating Broadband in Chile: The Debate Over Open Access

Publication Date: January 09, 2012

In 2011, Chile's Undersecretary of Telecommunications, Jorge Atton, was considering adopting a different policy toward regulating competition in Internet services than previously applied to voice telephony. Atton headed Chile's...

Sapientis and the Launch of CECE

Publication Date: August 23, 2011

This case invites students to grapple with the dilemmas faced by Laura Lopez, the new Executive Director of a Puerto Rican educational advocacy NGO called Sapientis. Six months ago, Sapientis gained national visibility when its national...

Achieving Mental Health Parity

Publication Date: July 28, 2011

In October 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law a requirement that certain private health insurance plans provide coverage for mental illness equal to coverage provided for medical-surgical illness as part of an economic stimulus...