The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal (Sequel)

Publication Date: November 01, 2000

This case provides a succinct account of the high profile failure of the Clinton Administration's initiative to reorganize the US health care and health insurance system so as to provide universal coverage at the same time as controlling costs...

The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal

Publication Date: November 01, 2000

This case provides a succinct account of the high profile failure of the Clinton Administration's initiative to reorganize the US health care and health insurance system so as to provide universal coverage at the same time as controlling costs...

The Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School

Publication Date: October 01, 2000

This case examines the finances of a Massachusetts charter school three years after its launch. (While the financial information is simplified, the case is otherwise factual.) The mission and history of the school are described in some detail,...

Testing the Reach of International Law: The Effort to Extradite General Augusto Pinochet to Spain

Publication Date: September 01, 2000

When the former military dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, arrives in London for medical treatment in September 1998, there is no hint, in advance, that a major precedent in international law is about to be set. That, however, is what takes...

The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (A)

Publication Date: September 01, 2000

When a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers in the famous, videotaped beating of a Black motorist stopped for speeding, the decision sparked shock, outrage and, in short order, riot in the city's African-American South Central section...

Cancún, Mexico: Water and Wastewater Privatization (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

The sequel describes the ensuing changes to the concession contract and regulatory oversight structure, and the return of operational control to the private concession company, Aguakán. It briefly discusses the financial and political...

Cancún, Mexico: Water System Privatization

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

This case focuses on the privatization of water and sanitation services in the city of Cancún, Mexico. Cancún's growth from a small fishing village in the 1970s to a major international tourist destination by the 1990s overwhelmed...

The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (C)

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

When a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers in the famous, videotaped beating of a black motorist stopped for speeding, the decision sparked shock, outrage and, in short order, riot in the city's African-American South Central section...

The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (B)

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

When a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers in the famous, videotaped beating of a black motorist stopped for speeding, the decision sparked shock, outrage and, in short order, riot in the city's African-American South Central section...

Breaking the "Circle of Poison": Senator Patrick Leahy and Pesticide Export Controls

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

What would prompt an elected official to take on what appears to be a moral cause with little immediate political benefit? That is the implicit political ethics question raised by this case, which describes the somewhat quixotic, decade-long...

Implementing Education Reform in India: The Primary School Textbook Debate and Resistance to Change in Kerala

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

As the 1998-99 school year began in the state of Kerala, India, state education officials were setting out to bring radical change to government schools. A new approach designed to be child-friendly and to de-emphasize rote learning and...

Bangkok's Skytrain (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 2000

In December 1999 Skytrain, the first rail mass transit line to be financed, built and operated by a private company in at least 50 years, opened in Bangkok, Thailand. Skytrain's owners had a concession from the Bangkok metropolitan government to...