Transener: The Electric Industry and the Wholesale Power Market (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

This case provides background on the restructuring of the Argentine electric industry and the development of the wholesale power market through the prism of Transener, the private firm forged from a formerly public corporation in 1993 to operate...

The Challenge of Participation: Drafting Mauritania's PRSP (B)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

In the late 1990s, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, under heavy pressure to find ways to relieve developing countries of large volumes of accumulated public debt, devise a way they believe offers a way to link such debt relief...

The Constitutional Right to Housing in South Africa: The Government of the Republic of South Africa vs. Irene Grootboom

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The 1996 "post-apartheid" constitution of South Africa enumerates a variety of specific rights -- among them a guarantee of access to housing and a right to shelter for children. Yet many millions of South Africans continued to live in...

Private Food Service in Houston's Public Schools? Rod Paige's School-Reform Campaign and the Outsourcing Controversy (Epilogue)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

When Superintendent Roderick Paige of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) confronts the challenge of raising the standards of student achievement, he believes he must concentrate the school district's resources on its central task:...

Private Food Service in Houston's Public Schools? Rod Paige's School-Reform Campaign and the Outsourcing Controversy

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

When Superintendent Roderick Paige of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) confronts the challenge of raising the standards of student achievement, he believes he must concentrate the school district's resources on its central task:...

Sound Move: The Debate Over Seattle's Regional Transit System (B)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The idea that the introduction or expansion of urban light rail systems could ease traffic congestion and air pollution has caught the imagination of many in American cities in recent decades. Yet, at the same time, questions about the...

Sound Move: The Debate Over Seattle's Regional Transit System (Sequel)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The idea that the introduction or expansion of urban light rail systems could ease traffic congestion and air pollution has caught the imagination of many in American cities in recent decades. Yet, at the same time, questions about the...

The Challenge of Drastically Changing Times: The Urban League Adjusts to a Post-Civil Rights Landscape

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

When Hugh Price becomes head of the National Urban League, one of the most historically important African-American civil rights organizations in the U.S., he finds an organization in some disarray. As he arrives in 1994, the League's national...

Sound Move: The Debate Over Seattle's Regional Transit System (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The idea that the introduction or expansion of urban light rail systems could ease traffic congestion and air pollution has caught the imagination of many in American cities in recent decades. Yet, at the same time, questions about the...

Disaster By Design: California's Experience with Electricity Restructure: The Storm Hits (B)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The power shortages and blackouts of late 2000 and early 2001 drew international attention to the electricity deregulation regime adopted four years earlier by the state of California. This case provides a definitive account of the nature of...

Disaster By Design: California's Experience with Electricity Restructure: The Origins (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The power shortages and blackouts of late 2000 and early 2001 drew international attention to the electricity deregulation regime adopted four years earlier by the state of California. This case provides a definitive account of the nature of...

Epilogue: For a Culture of Building Care

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, high atop a great many of the older, concrete-block buildings of lower-income parts of central Hong Kong and the neighborhoods of the Kowloon peninsula, informal metal-framed wooden structures were built to house...