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...

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

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...

Oklahoma's Milestones Reimbursement System: Paying for What You Get

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

This human services contracting case describes an innovative system launched by the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitative Services when faced with what it viewed as skyrocketing costs and ineffectual assistance for citizens with severe...