Pension Reform in China: Weighing the Alternatives

Publication Date: November 09, 1999

Based on interviews with officials in China, this case describes the policy conundrum faced by the Chinese as they attempted to establish a post-socialist, financially viable old age pension system. Historically, in the Communist era, old-age...

Politics of a Covert Action: The U.S., the Mujahideen, and the Stinger Missile

Publication Date: November 09, 1999

This case tells the inside story of one of the most controversial episodes in the history of the US intelligence services. Its focus: whether to break the time-honored rules of CIA covert actions in order to supply Afghan rebels (fighting in the...

Security Preparations for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games (A)

Publication Date: November 01, 1999

This multi-part case tells the story of security planning for the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta, focusing particularly on two themes: the difficulty, in the highly-decentralized US federal system, of identifying a lead body of law enforcement...

Struggle over Monet's Field of Poppies, Near Giverny: Who should benefit?

Publication Date: November 01, 1999

On August 19, 1999, lawyers representing Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) and attorneys for The White Fund of Lawrence, Massachusetts were in Suffolk Superior Court to plead their case in a legal battle that had begun earlier that year. At...

The Washington Opera (Sequel)

Publication Date: October 27, 1999

When the board of the Washington Opera Company decides to seek to catapult the successful regional organization into the exclusive ranks of the top opera companies in the U.S. and the world, it faces a series of daunting strategic problems...

The Washington Opera

Publication Date: October 27, 1999

When the board of the Washington Opera Company decides to seek to catapult the successful regional organization into the exclusive ranks of the top opera companies in the U.S. and the world, it faces a series of daunting strategic problems...

Generations Incorporated: The Search for Volunteers (Epilogue)

Publication Date: October 22, 1999

Generations Incorporated is a small Boston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to forging relationships between the elderly and youth. When it takes on the task of improving the reading capacity of students in two school districts, it finds...

Generations Incorporated: The Search for Volunteers

Publication Date: October 22, 1999

Generations Incorporated is a small Boston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to forging relationships between the elderly and youth. When it takes on the task of improving the reading capacity of students in two school districts, it finds...

Security Preparations for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games (C): The Games Begin

Publication Date: October 01, 1999

This multi-part case tells the story of security planning for the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta, focusing particularly on two themes: the difficulty, in the highly-decentralized US federal system, of identifying a lead body of law enforcement...

Security Preparations for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games (B): Seeking a Structural Fix

Publication Date: October 01, 1999

This multi-part case tells the story of security planning for the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta, focusing particularly on two themes: the difficulty, in the highly-decentralized US federal system, of identifying a lead body of law enforcement...

Don Williams' Effort to Empower South Dallas: A Commitment to Empowerment (Epilogue)

Publication Date: October 01, 1999

When Don Williams, the president and chief executive officer of the Dallas real estate and services giant Trammel Crow, decides, in 1994, to leave the position, he does so with big plans for his post-corporate life. Williams, much-influenced by...

Don Williams' Effort to Empower South Dallas: Helping a Neighborhood Help Itself

Publication Date: October 01, 1999

When Don Williams, the president and chief executive officer of the Dallas real estate and services giant Trammel Crow, decides, in 1994, to leave the position, he does so with big plans for his post-corporate life. Williams, much-influenced by...