Laura Johnston & the Sandia High School: Racial Transformation (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Public high school principals hold one of the highest-pressure, frontline management jobs in government. Even in relative affluent communities where schools are popular, the day can pose a series of unexpected and momentous decisions, and in...

Washington State Workers' Compensation Administration (B)

Publication Date: January 1, 1996

Like many such systems, the Washington State Workers Compensation Administration was, in the mid-1980s, in deep financial distress. Worse still, its fiscal problems were matched by deep problems of efficiency and morale, particularly in its...

Washington State Workers' Compensation Administration (A)

Publication Date: January 1, 1996

Like many such systems, the Washington State Workers Compensation Administration was, in the mid 1980s, in deep financial distress. Worse still, its fiscal problems were matched by deep problems of efficiency and morale, particularly in its...

A "Seamless" Transition: US & UN Operations in Somalia 1992-1993 (B)

Publication Date: January 1, 1996

This case recounts the difficult, on-the-ground issues which arise in the course of militarily-delivered humanitarian assistance to the African nation of Somalia in the wake of famine sparked by virtual dissolution of the central government...

A "Seamless" Transition: US & UN Operations in Somalia 1992-1993 (A)

Publication Date: January 1, 1996

This case recounts the difficult, on-the-ground issues which arise in the course of militarily-delivered humanitarian assistance to the African nation of Somalia in the wake of famine sparked by virtual dissolution of the central government...

Partners in Child Protection Svcs: DSS and La Alianza Hispana (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

This case focuses on the contractual relationship between a state's office charged with forestalling child abuse and neglect and one non-profit provider of social services for those purposes. The case points out the reasons the state of...

Partners in Child Protection Svcs: DSS and La Alianza Hispana (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

This case focuses on the contractual relationship between a state's office charged with forestalling child abuse and neglect and one non-profit provider of social services for those purposes. The case points out the reasons the state of...

Partners in Child Protection Svcs: DSS and La Alianza Hispana (A) (Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

This case focuses on the contractual relationship between a state's office charged with forestalling child abuse and neglect and one non-profit provider of social services for those purposes. The case points out the reasons the state of...

Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

The road to the breakthrough Dayton Peace Accords, which ushered in the prospect of a stable peace in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, is built through an intricate, high-pressure negotiation brokered by the United States and involving Serbia,...

James Woolsey and the CIA: The Aldrich Ames Spy Case (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

When Washington attorney and longtime Capitol Hill staff member James Woolsey became director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1993, he inherited a bombshell that would soon become public. A joint CIA-FBI investigation had found that...

James Woolsey and the CIA: The Aldrich Ames Spy Case

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

When Washington attorney and longtime Capitol Hill staff member James Woolsey became director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1993, he inherited a bombshell that would soon become public. A joint CIA-FBI investigation had found that...

Shifting the Labor Relations Paradigm: A Union-Management Partnership in Ohio State Government

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Public sector unions are the fastest-growing sector of organized labor in the US, and are key players to be considered by a wide variety of elected and appointed public officials. This case, in contrast to most in both public management and...