Defining Torture in the War on Terror: "Checking with the Professionals" (A)

Publication Date: December 14, 2006

After the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, President George W. Bush launched a military offensive in Afghanistan, which led to the capture of Al Qaeda operatives thought to be behind the attacks. Top US officials debated how to...

Health Care & the Isolated Poor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: The Quest to Make a Lasting Change (Sequel)

Publication Date: December 14, 2006

The spring of 2005 marked a tricky juncture for the leaders of a program designed to improve health care access for thousands of residents living in impoverished, isolated settlements just north of the Mexican border in the Lower Rio Grande...

Health Care & the Isolated Poor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: The Quest to Make a Lasting Change

Publication Date: December 14, 2006

The spring of 2005 marked a tricky juncture for the leaders of a program designed to improve health care access for thousands of residents living in impoverished, isolated settlements just north of the Mexican border in the Lower Rio Grande...

Emergency Response to a Long-Term Crisis? Médecins sans Frontières and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia

Publication Date: November 02, 2006

Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF, Doctors without Borders) is an organization that responds to humanitarian crises throughout the world with medical staff and supplies. The organization also acts as an advocate for those it serves, providing...

Starting Small, Reaching High: The Parents as Teachers National Center's Quest for Growth with Quality (B)

Publication Date: October 06, 2006

In the early 1980s, Missouri's director of early childhood education launched a novel parent education pilot project designed to increase children's kindergarten readiness and support family well-being by sending specially trained educators on...

Starting Small, Reaching High: The Parents as Teachers National Center's Quest for Growth with Quality (A)

Publication Date: October 06, 2006

In the early 1980s, Missouri's director of early childhood education launched a novel parent education pilot project designed to increase children's kindergarten readiness and support family well-being by sending specially trained educators on...

The St. Xavier Healing Touch Hospital

Publication Date: October 04, 2006

The case is set in a large teaching hospital. Students must analyze the actual and forecasted budgets provided for the previous year to identify the financial difficulties of the hospital. They can then solve costing and budgeting exercises...

Partnerships Victoria: The Public Sector Comparator

Publication Date: October 04, 2006

The government of the State of Victoria in Australia has been a pioneer in using the private sector to provide public infrastructure through "public-private partnerships" (PPPs). Under PPP programs the government contracts with a private company...

Beyond "Mama Management": Operating Room Cutbacks at the California Multispeciality Center: Abridged

Publication Date: March 21, 2005

This abridged version of the case is about retrenchment forced upon an institution--a premier specialty hospital--whose staff had thought itself virtually immune from economic pressures. A battle is joined specifically as a result of the...

Values in Conflict: The Furor over Admissions Policy at a Popular Virginia Magnet School (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 31, 2006

In this executive leadership case, the activist superintendent of Virginia's affluent Fairfax County public school district, Daniel A. Domenech, is faced with a complex, politically-loaded policy dilemma. At issue is the admissions policy for...

Values in Conflict: The Furor over Admissions Policy at a Popular Virginia Magnet School

Publication Date: August 31, 2006

In this executive leadership case, the activist superintendent of Virginia's affluent Fairfax County public school district, Daniel A. Domenech, is faced with a complex, politically-loaded policy dilemma. At issue is the admissions policy for...

The KIPP Schools: Deciding How to Go to Scale

Publication Date: August 11, 2006

When Michael Feinberg and Dan Levin established their fledgling Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) school in Houston in the early 1990s, they hoped only to prove in their own school that a highly-structured and demanding program could lift the...