Reinventing Government in Visalia, CA: A Movement at Risk (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The contemporary "reinventing government" movement began with the efforts of Visalia, California, city manager Ted Gaebler to change traditional ways of doing business in that small northern California city. Gaebler would draw on his experiences...

Reinventing Government in Visalia, CA: A Movement at Risk (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The contemporary "reinventing government" movement began with the efforts of Visalia, California, city manager Ted Gaebler to change traditional ways of doing business in that small northern California city. Gaebler would draw on his experiences...

Reinventing Government in Visalia, CA: A Movement at Risk (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The contemporary "reinventing government" movement began with the efforts of Visalia, California, city manager Ted Gaebler to change traditional ways of doing business in that small northern California city. Gaebler would draw on his experiences...

Romani Politics in the Czech Republic

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The fall of Communism in Eastern Europe ushered in a new era of political freedom. At the same time, it opened an old Pandora's box of ethnic tensions and hatreds, suppressed in the ostensibly universalist Marxist regimes. Among the most...

Case of Zimetco

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This case is set in Zimbabwe and focuses on an education and training cooperative aimed at improving rural agriculture in the wake of that country's civil war in 1981. The organization becomes successful and influential under a dynamic leader...

Black Wednesday: The Bundesbank Connection

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

Throughout the 1980s, the lead of Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, in helping to align the currencies of the European Economic Union members appeared to serve a variety of potentially difficult-to-reconcile causes: political union in...

Managing Change or Running to Catch Up: CARE USA and Its Mission in Thailand

Publication Date: January 1, 1995

This case deals with different management problems in one of the world's largest and most important non-government organizations, CARE. From its origin as a post-World War II emergency feeding program, CARE has taken up the task of encouraging...

Tailhook: The Navy Response (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 1, 1995

The notorious Tailhook affair, the 1991 gathering of Navy pilots in Las Vegas which was marked by the harassment of female officers by drunken airmen, is well-known for its brazen assaults. Drunken convention-goers grabbed at women as they...

Tailhook: The Navy Response (B)

Publication Date: January 1, 1995

The notorious Tailhook affair, the 1991 gathering of Navy pilots in Las Vegas which was marked by the harassment of female officers by drunken airmen, is well-known for its brazen assaults. Drunken convention-goers grabbed at women as they...

Tailhook: The Navy Response (A)

Publication Date: January 1, 1995

The notorious Tailhook affair, the 1991 gathering of Navy pilots in Las Vegas which was marked by the harassment of female officers by drunken airmen, is well-known for its brazen assaults. Drunken convention-goers grabbed at women as they...

Terry Ann Lunt and Greater Boston Rehabilitation Services (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

At first glance, Greater Boston Rehabilitation Services appeared to be in excellent financial shape in the spring of 1991, when Terry Ann Lunt was named its new executive director. A mix of government grants and work contracts with local...

Black Wednesday in Britain: The Politics of ERM Crisis (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The withdrawal of Britain from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, designed as a precursor to a European political and currency union, has been described as a "seminal moment in European politics...on a rank with the first oil shock." This...