The Tribasa Toll Road Trust

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

This case demonstrates how the international capital markets were used to obtain financing for the expansion of limited access highways in Mexico. Structured as a Rule 144A transaction, the offering securitized the future Mexican...

Mexico's Competition Law and the Federal Competition Commission

Publication Date: November 01, 1998

In 1992, Mexico passed a law making certain anti-competitive practices illegal and creating a Federal Competition Commission (Comision Federal de Competencia) to enforce competition policies. This case describes the considerations involved in...

A Public Hospital's Strategy for Survival: The Story of Cambridge Hospital

Publication Date: November 01, 1998

When a one-time public, charity hospital faces budget deficits and a municipality unwilling to bail it out, it must find a new role for itself in the contemporary U.S. health care system. Cambridge Hospital, long-known as Cambridge City...

Cleaning up the "Big Dirties": The Problem of Acid Rain

Publication Date: November 01, 1998

Shortly after his 1989 inauguration, President George Bush confronts a seemingly intractable dispute which had simmered through the 1980s: how to legislate the clean-up of the so-called "big dirties", large coal-burning Midwest power plants...

'Self-Help' Housing on the Texas-Mexico Border (A): Background Note

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

These cases tell the story of the complications which arise when a major state government agency attempts to use a nonprofit community-based organization as the means to implement an important new state program: low-cost, modestly-subsidized new...

'Self-Help' Housing on the Texas-Mexico Border (B): Background Note

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

These cases tell the story of the complications which arise when a major state government agency attempts to use a nonprofit community-based organization as the means to implement an important new state program: low-cost, modestly-subsidized new...

'Self-Help' Housing on the Texas-Mexico Border (C): Tackling Big Problems with Federal Dollars and Small Nonprofits

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

These cases tell the story of the complications which arise when a major state government agency attempts to use a nonprofit community-based organization as the means to implement an important new state program: low-cost, modestly-subsidized new...

'Self-Help' Housing on the Texas-Mexico Border (B): The Frustrations of a State-Nonprofit Partnership

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

These cases tell the story of the complications which arise when a major state government agency attempts to use a nonprofit community-based organization as the means to implement an important new state program: low-cost, modestly-subsidized new...

'Self-Help' Housing on the Texas-Mexico Border (A): The Complications of Good Fortune for a Small Nonprofit Organization

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

These cases tell the story of the complications which arise when a major state government agency attempts to use a nonprofit community-based organization as the means to implement an important new state program: low-cost, modestly-subsidized new...

Should It Survive? Charles Dunlap and the National Family Legal Foundation (Epilogue)

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

This nonprofit strategic planning case tells the story of the Phoenix-based National Family Legal Foundation, an anti-pornography advocacy group which, after attaining national influence during the 1980s, finds itself, in 1995, nearly bankrupt...

The Widening of Ping An Avenue: Making Decisions about Historic Preservation

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

In 1997, the municipal government of Beijing began planning how to widen a congested arterial road that ran through the Chinese capital's historic center, just blocks from the palaces of the Forbidden City. This case describes the somewhat...

Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in China: Dong An Group and C&W Electronics

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

The transformation of the economy of China during the 1980s and 1990s sparked a wave of growth. At the same time, however, it left unresolved the relative roles of firms, formerly state-owned and managed, and the state itself, in providing...