Dick Rathgeber and the People's Community Clinic: The Question of Commitment (A)

Publication Date: June 01, 1999

When long-time Houston real estate developer and philanthropist Dick Rathgeber agrees to provide technical assistance to a local nonprofit community health clinic, he finds himself moved to offer broader advice than that for which he'd been...

The Cleveland School Voucher Program: A Question of Choice (B)

Publication Date: June 01, 1999

This case describes both the essential philosophical debate surrounding the idea of allowing public funds to pay tuition at private and religious schools, and the complications involved in actually implementing such a "voucher" program. The "A"...

The Cleveland School Voucher Program: A Question of Choice (A)

Publication Date: June 01, 1999

This case describes both the essential philosophical debate surrounding the idea of allowing public funds to pay tuition at private and religious schools, and the complications involved in actually implementing such a "voucher" program. The "A"...

The Privatization of Light-Serviços de Eletricidade, SA: Preparing the Terms of Sale

Publication Date: June 01, 1999

In 1996, the government of Brazil attempted to sell the large, federally-owned power distribution company in Rio de Janeiro to private investors. The competitive auction for Rio Light was being heralded as a test of the entire Brazilian...

The Melbourne City Link

Publication Date: June 01, 1999

The Melbourne City Link, a $2 billion privately-funded highway project, was one of the first fully electronic toll roads in the world. While the government of the State of Victoria specified this innovative tolling system in the tender for the...

A Bureaucrat's Dilemma: Skirmish on the Front Lines of Romanian Agricultural Reform

Publication Date: May 01, 1999

When a reform-minded economist joins Romania's Ministry of Agriculture, she expects to help move her nation toward market-based changes that will increase the production of food by reducing subsidies and tariffs. Instead, General Secretary...

Discussing Disaster: "God's Will" (B)

Publication Date: April 01, 1999

This is both a crisis management communication case and a case about the relationship between civil servants and local government in a fledgling democracy. Set in Hong Kong, the case describes the confluence of events which lead to what is...

Creating a "Cyberculture" of Wilderness: The Development of the Wilderness Information Network

Publication Date: April 01, 1999

In 1995, as the World Wide Web began to gain sudden attention and popularity, a small group of academic and government environmentalists in Missoula, Montana believed this new medium of information dissemination could be the right sort of...

Creating a "Cyberculture" of Wilderness (Epilogue)

Publication Date: April 01, 1999

In 1995, as the World Wide Web began to gain sudden attention and popularity, a small group of academic and government environmentalists in Missoula, Montana believed this new medium of information dissemination could be the right sort of...

The East New York Urban Youth Corps and Community Policing: The Community Security Initiative Gets Underway

Publication Date: March 01, 1999

The efforts of a nonprofit community development corporation to renovate the housing stock of one of Brooklyn's most dangerous and dilapidated neighborhoods hits a roadblock in the early 1990s: many blocks are simply too crime-ridden to be able...

"Firm Guidance": Changing Hong Kong's "Medium of Instruction"

Publication Date: March 01, 1999

Long-building concern about the quality of Hong Kong public education culminates in March, 1996 with the decision of the territory's Education Commission to push its 400-plus secondary schools toward replacing English with Cantonese as the basic...

A Day's Work for a Day's Wages: Boosting Worker Productivity in New York's Department of Sanitation (Epilogue)

Publication Date: February 01, 1999

This municipal labor relations case tells the story of the effort by New York City's sanitation commissioner to convince, or force, the city's 11,000 "san-men" who work on the city's 1,000 garbage trucks, to reduce the cost of collecting the...