SAGASCO Holdings Limited

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

In the summer of 1993, Australia's Trade Practices Commission was considering whether or not to permanently enjoin Santos Limited from acquiring SAGASCO Holdings Limited. This merger was potentially of enormous significance, since Santos was the...

The US-USSR Grain Agreement

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

In July, 1975, top White House economic officials in the Ford Administration receive information that the Soviet Union, in the face of a disappointing grain harvest, might seek to purchase large amounts of wheat and corn from US suppliers. This...

Buenos Aires-Colonia Bridge (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

This case recounts the work of a special Argentina-Uruguay bi-national commission convened to examine the economics of a proposed bridge that would link the two countries. The bridge being considered by commission officials in the spring of 1996...

A Time of Reckoning: Crisis in the Buffalo Public School System: Epilogue (Abridged)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This case tracks the long series of factors--historical, political, cultural, managerial--which culminated with the prospective bankruptcy of the Buffalo (NY) public school system, in the face of a court-ordered back pay settlement with its...

The 1998 Needle-Exchange Decision: The McCaffrey-Shalala Confrontation

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This case describes the policy disagreement and resulting political in-fighting which accompanied the Clinton Administration's consideration of whether to allow federal funds to be used to support "needle-exchange" programs meant to reduce the...

Zero-Tolerance in Memphis (B)

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

School superintendent Gerry House arrives in Memphis in 1992 with an aggressive, reform agenda. Convinced that the predominantly African-American system had focused too heavily on discipline at the expense of learning, House conceives a "school...

Zero-Tolerance in Memphis (A)

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

School superintendent Gerry House arrives in Memphis in 1992 with an aggressive, reform agenda. Convinced that the predominantly African-American system had focused too heavily on discipline at the expense of learning, House conceives a "school...

Pushing the Boundaries: Redistricting the Kentwood Schools

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

The issue of racial integration in public schools has typically taken the form of controversies about busing across neighborhood lines in big cities, or proposed cross-boundary desegregation involving cities and their surrounding suburbs. The...

Aguas de Cartagena: The Privatization of Water in Cartagena, Colombia (Sequel)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1992, Mayor Gabriel Garcia Romero confronted a situation all too familiar in developing countries--an inadequate and under capitalized water system. Only 28 percent of Cartagena's households had reliable drinking water. Thirty percent were...

Aguas de Cartagena: The Privatization of Water in Cartagena, Colombia

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1992, Mayor Gabriel Garcia Romero confronted a situation all too familiar in developing countries--an inadequate and under-capitalized water system. Only 28 percent of Cartagena's households had reliable drinking water. Thirty percent were...

Focused Philanthropy: The Steans Family Foundation North Lawndale Initiative

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

The Chicago-based Steans Family Foundation decides, in 1995, to depart from its historic focus on aiding individual, needy Chicago public school students. Frustrated by the persistent perils in neighborhoods in which such beneficiaries of their...

Chile's Water System: The Privatization Debate (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1995, the President of Chile proposed to the legislature several reforms designed to strengthen the agency that regulated the tariffs charged by Chile's water companies. Although a half dozen water companies were private, most of the water...