Buying Property in a Hot Market: NYC Creates a Fund to Keep Affordable Housing Developers in Play

Publication Date: November 03, 2009

This three-part case study (along with a video supplement) presents the initial problem, the thinking, the politics, and the design negotiations that produced New York City's NYC Acquisition Fund in August 2006. The case concludes with a...

Blessed are the Peacemakers: Senator Danforth as Special Envoy to the Sudan

Publication Date: October 14, 2009

After the attack on the World Trade Towers on September 11th, Senator John (Jack) C. Danforth's appointment as the president's special envoy to the Sudan took on a much deeper significance. As an ordained Episcopal priest, the senator, closely...

BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 19, 2009

The case sequel is both retrospective in describing BlueOrchard's development since the original case in response to a rapidly changing environment, and prospective in raising questions about BlueOrchard's future competitiveness in a perhaps...

New Delhi Water and Power

Publication Date: June 22, 2009

The New Delhi Water and Power case compares the efforts by the government of the capital territory of New Delhi to privatize its electric distribution company and reform its municipal water company. The case introduces students to problems...

The Challenge of Adapting to Climate Change: King County Brings Local Action to a Global Threat (Sequel)

Publication Date: June 16, 2009

This sequel reveals which actions the County took, and describes the outcome of each in brief. It also includes two exhibits: a summary of the goals and actions outlined in the adaptation section of the 2007 King County Climate Plan and a list...

The Challenge of Adapting to Climate Change: King County Brings Local Action to a Global Threat

Publication Date: June 16, 2009

This case combines text and video to explore the local and national leadership role of King County Executive Ron Sims, in Washington State, as he made climate change mitigation and—even more pathbreaking—“adaptation” a...

Taking a Therapeutic Approach to Juvenile Offenders: The "Missouri Model"

Publication Date: May 14, 2009

In the early 1970s, the Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) took its first steps toward radically changing the way it dealt with youthful offenders remanded to its custody. For years, like most states, it had incarcerated juveniles...

The Ethos Institute: Promises and Risks of Working with the Government (Sequel) (B)

Publication Date: May 05, 2009

As Brazil's energetic but fractious democracy emerged in the 1990s, the Ethos Institute launched a movement for corporate social responsibility (CSR) that, it hoped, would both cajole the private sector to manage its own operations...

The Ethos Institute: Promises and Risks of Working with the Government (B)

Publication Date: May 05, 2009

As Brazil's energetic but fractious democracy emerged in the 1990s, the Ethos Institute launched a movement for corporate social responsibility (CSR) that, it hoped, would both cajole the private sector to manage its own operations...

The Ethos Institute: Challenging Business to Become the Vanguard of Social Progress in Brazil (A) (Sequel)

Publication Date: May 05, 2009

As Brazil's energetic but fractious democracy emerged in the 1990s, the Ethos Institute launched a movement for corporate social responsibility (CSR) that, it hoped, would both cajole the private sector to manage its own operations...

The Ethos Institute: Challenging Business to Become the Vanguard of Social Progress in Brazil (A)

Publication Date: May 05, 2009

As Brazil's energetic but fractious democracy emerged in the 1990s, the Ethos Institute launched a movement for corporate social responsibility (CSR) that, it hoped, would both cajole the private sector to manage its own operations...

Designing Impact Evaluations: Assessing Jamaica's PATH Program

Publication Date: April 30, 2009

This case asks participants to put themselves in the position of a government official in charge of selecting an evaluation design to assess the impact of a social program. The goal is to illustrate the tradeoffs that are made in the real world...