Public Takes on Private (Epilogue)

Publication Date: February 01, 2002

This epilogue accompanies case 1649.0 Public Takes on Private: The Philadelphia Behavioral Health System. In response to growing public criticism of the way health maintenance organizations handle behavioral (mental) health problems, public...

Public Takes on Private: The Philadelphia Behavioral Health System

Publication Date: February 01, 2002

In response to growing public criticism of the way health maintenance organizations handle behavioral (mental) health problems, public officials in Philadelphia propose a dramatic initiative: a new public agency to replace what had been a...

Threat of Terrorism (Epilogue)

Publication Date: February 01, 2002

In December 1999, only weeks after protests at the annual meeting of the World Trade Organization sparked violent protests which rocked the city, Seattle public safety officials face a new threat. An Algerian man has been arrested trying to...

Threat of Terrorism: Weighing Public Safety in Seattle

Publication Date: February 01, 2002

In December 1999, only weeks after protests at the annual meeting of the World Trade Organization sparked violent protests which rocked the city, Seattle public safety officials face a new threat. An Algerian man has been arrested trying to...

Mayor Anthony Williams and Performance Management in Washington, DC

Publication Date: February 01, 2002

When Anthony Williams is elected mayor of Washington, DC in November 1998, he inherits a city that had been close to insolvency. Although its financial picture has improved, it has historically lacked the equipment and systems to deliver...

The PennTowne Dilemma and the Friends Rehabilitation Corporation: A Community Development Organization and the Prospect of Profit (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 2002

This epilogue accompanies case 1666.0. Forty years after its founding, the Friends Rehabilitation Program Inc., a Quaker--affiliated nonprofit housing developer and management firm in Philadelphia, finds itself facing an unexpected dilemma: what...

The PennTowne Dilemma and the Friends Rehabilitation Corporation: A Community Development Organization and the Prospect of Profit

Publication Date: January 01, 2002

Forty years after its founding, the Friends Rehabilitation Program Inc., a Quaker-affiliated nonprofit housing developer and management firm in Philadelphia, finds itself facing an unexpected dilemma: what should an organization, founded to help...

Phenix Federal Credit Union: Budgeting and Performance Evaluation

Publication Date: January 01, 2002

The Phenix Federal Credit Union can serve as an integrative case for a full-semester course in managerial accounting, or as an introduction to credit unions in a course on nonprofit management. It may be used as a vehicle to discuss variance...

Bartercard UK

Publication Date: January 01, 2002

Founded in 1991 in Australia by Wayne Sharpe, Bartercard International had offices in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Canada, and the UK. By its own estimates, Bartercard International was the world's...

The City of Chicago and the 1995 Heat Wave (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 2002

The heat wave that swept across the Great Plains and Midwest in mid July 1995 was one of the deadliest in U.S. history. Regarded as one of the worst disasters ever to strike the City of Chicago, it claimed 522 lives by one count, and 733 by...

The West Nile Virus Outbreak in New York City: The City Responds (B) (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 2002

In August 1999, in the midst of a hot, dry summer in New York City, a series of very ill, elderly patients appear at a small, hospital in Queens. Their symptoms are unusual, combining aspects of deadly viral encephalitis with a form of muscle...

The West Nile Virus Outbreak in New York City: The City Responds (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 2002

In August 1999, in the midst of a hot, dry summer in New York City, a series of very ill, elderly patients appear at a small hospital in Queens. Their symptoms are unusual, combining aspects of deadly viral encephalitis with a form of muscle...