"A Multiplicity of Roles": The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Search for a Director (Sequel)

Publication Date: October 30, 2001

Two years after cutting the ribbon on a dramatic new building, the trustees of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art face a crucial decision: whom to hire as the museum's new executive director. It's a decision that arises in the context of...

"A Multiplicity of Roles": The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Search for a Director

Publication Date: October 30, 2001

Two years after cutting the ribbon on a dramatic new building, the trustees of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art face a crucial decision: whom to hire as the museum's new executive director. It's a decision that arises in the context of...

The Tampa Museum of Science and Industry: The Fowler Avenue Land Problem (Epilogue)

Publication Date: October 30, 2001

When the fast-growing Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida finds out that a key, privately-owned parcel of land adjoining its "campus" is up for sale, it moves quickly--but unsuccessfully--to convince the owner to sell the land...

The Tampa Museum of Science and Industry: The Fowler Avenue Land Problem

Publication Date: October 30, 2001

When the fast-growing Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida finds out that a key, privately-owned parcel of land adjoining its "campus" is up for sale, it moves quickly--but unsuccessfully--to convince the owner to sell the land...

Negotiating the Internet: Epilogue

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

This case explores negotiations strategy through the dramatic story of one company's contribution in the early 1990s to the refinement of the World Wide Web and the decisions its founders faced as they considered whether to remain independent or...

Museums in the United States at the Turn of the Millennium: An Industry Note

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

This note, commissioned for the Museum Trustee Association and meant as a companion for the cases on the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art (1625.0) and the Tampa Museum of Science and Industry (1629.0), provides an overview of trends in the...

Negotiating the Internet: A Start-Up's Path through the Online World

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

This case explores negotiations strategy through the dramatic story of one company's contribution in the early 1990s to the refinement of the World Wide Web and the decisions its founders faced as they considered whether to remain independent or...

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

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

This is an 8-page sequel to HKS Case 1627.0. 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...

Transener: Expanding Transmission Capacity (C)

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...

Transener: The First Tariff Review (B)

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...

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...