What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform (Epilogue)

Publication Date: December 16, 2010

Fundescola is an educational reform introduced in Brazil in the first decade of the 21st century. It was introduced after Brazil's successful educational access reforms in the 1990s led to skyrocketing enrollment rates, leaving schools...

What Makes a Policy Intervention Successful? Glimpses of experience in Brazil's Fundescola education reform (A)

Publication Date: December 02, 2010

Fundescola is an educational reform introduced in Brazil in the first decade of the 21st century. It was introduced after Brazil's successful educational access reforms in the 1990s led to skyrocketing enrollment rates, leaving schools...

California High-Speed Rail

Publication Date: November 18, 2010

In January 2010, the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) was waiting to hear whether the Obama Administration would approve its application for $4.7 billion in federal stimulus funding to begin the construction of a $50-billion,...

Effective Revenue Collection in Nomburo (or not)

Publication Date: October 27, 2010

John Mwa is the newly appointed head of the Nomburan Revenue Agency (NRA), tasked by incoming President Orelio with improving revenue collections in the African nation of Nomburo. This case discusses how he goes about reaching performance...

Taiwan's High-Speed Rail: A Public-Private Partnership Hits a Speed Bump

Publication Date: October 05, 2010

This case traces the evolution of Taiwan's high-speed railroad from project inception in the late 1980s until its financial problems in 2009 describing the planning efforts, ridership projections, financial plans, and cost-benefit analysis...

A Tale of Two Managers (Sequel)

Publication Date: September 09, 2010

The case reviews experience of two different managers in top English soccer teams. Students must use the information provided to advise the boards of these teams about whether the two managers deserve to be sacked. Information in the first part...

A Tale of Two Managers

Publication Date: September 09, 2010

The case reviews the experience of two different managers in top English soccer teams. Students must use the information provided to advise the boards of these teams about whether the two managers deserve to be sacked. Information in the first...

Electric Vehicles in Cities

Publication Date: August 26, 2010

In 2010, San Francisco was an affiliate of the Large City Climate Leadership Group, an association of major cities around the world that recognized that climate change required global action but were not waiting for others to act. Many of these...

Getting Help to Victims of 2008 Cyclone Nargis: AmeriCares Engages with Myanmar's Military Government (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 19, 2010

This case affords students of strategic management a rare inside look at the consequential political and logistical choices that international relief agencies must often make, at high speed, when responding to a humanitarian crisis. It traces...

Getting Help to Victims of 2008 Cyclone Nargis: AmeriCares Engages with Myanmar's Military Government

Publication Date: August 19, 2010

This case affords students of strategic management a rare inside look at the consequential political and logistical choices that international relief agencies must often make, at high speed, when responding to a humanitarian crisis. It traces...

An Inspired Model...or a Misguided One? Oprah Winfrey's Dream School for Impoverished South African Girls

Publication Date: July 29, 2010

In 2000, media superstar Oprah Winfrey promised the recently-retired Nelson Mandela, first president of post-Apartheid South Africa, that she would build his country a top-notch boarding school for disadvantaged girls. Her twin purpose was to...

Aruna Roy and the Birth of a People's Movement in India

Publication Date: July 28, 2010

In 2005, the Parliament of India enacted the Right to Information Act, a law giving citizens of India access to central, state, and local government records. Under the law's provisions, citizens have the ability to request information...