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...

Zoning Restrictions on Social Services for the Poor: The Case of Hartford, Connecticut

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

This case about the regulation of nonprofit social service organizations focuses on the unusual decision of the Hartford (Connecticut) City Council: to impose a moratorium on the establishment of new social service nonprofit organizations--such...

Zoning Restrictions on Social Services for the Poor: The Case of Hartford, Connecticut (Epilogue)

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

This case about the regulation of nonprofit social service organizations focuses on the unusual decision of the Hartford (Connecticut) City Council: to impose a moratorium on the establishment of new social service nonprofit organizations--such...

Treasury and the Mexican Shock

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

The devaluation of the Mexican peso in December, 1994 roiled the world's financial markets. The possibility that the Mexican government might not be able to pay its obligations to bondholders--including international investors--threatened...

The Hit Squad

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

In 1985 Frank Chikane, then deputy president of the United Democratic Front of South Africa, is out on bail under house arrest, awaiting trial for treason. The South African government is waging a last-ditch defense of apartheid, resorting to...

The Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS): Activism and Apathy in Englewood

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

The decision of the Chicago Police Department to employ community policing techniques to reduce crimes on the city's South Side, leads it to focus on the city's Englewood neighborhood. There, the combination of drug dealing and vacant homes and...

Mental Health, Medicaid, and Managed Care: Building a Unified System in Massachusetts (Epilogue)

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

This case describes the policy and management tensions which arise when the managed care approach is applied to patients cared for through the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and formerly housed in traditional hospital settings--and...

Mental Health, Medicaid, and Managed Care: Building a Unified System in Massachusetts

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

This case describes the policy and management tensions which arise when the managed care approach is applied to patients cared for through the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and formerly housed in traditional hospital settings--and...

Annie Tallent (B)

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

A school board official in South Dakota is faced with a demand by local Indian tribes to change the name of the Annie Tallent School. Annie Tallent was among the first white pioneers to arrive in the Black Hills and became a leader in education...