Mountaineer Habitat for Humanity and the West Virginia Housing Development Fund: The Prospect of Partnership

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

When a local chapter of the Habitat for Humanity organization learns that a state-chartered development fund might be able to provide it with financial help, the non-profit organization faces a decision. Should it accept funds from a public...

Beyond "Mama Management": Redefining the Role of the Nursing Administrator in the Operating Room of the Southern California Multispeciality Center

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This is a case about retrenchment forced upon an institution--a premier specialty hospital--whose staff had thought itself virtually immune from economic pressures. A battle is joined specifically as a result of the decision by a new...

Financing Environmental Improvements in Slovakia: The Slovak Environmental Revolving Investment Fund (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

The fall of the Iron Curtain revealed previously unimagined environmental degradation in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the newly-independent Slovak Republic, untreated waste flowed into the rivers, heavy industry clouded...

Financing Environmental Improvements in Slovakia: The Slovak Environmental Revolving Investment Fund

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

The fall of the Iron Curtain revealed previously unimagined environmental degradation in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the newly-independent Slovak Republic, untreated waste flowed into the rivers, heavy industry clouded...

Spreading the Gospel: DARE Goes National (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

A program originated in Los Angeles to bring police officers, preaching an anti-drug message, to public school classrooms, not only seems to show promise but spreads quickly across the US. Is the idea itself so good that others simply rush to...

The Palestinian Flag Controversy at Lakeland High School (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

A celebration of a suburban high school's ethnic diversity unexpectedly leads to crisis when a Palestinian student demands that a display of flags include the banner of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The community threatens to break down...

The Palestinian Flag Controversy at Lakeland High School

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

A celebration of a suburban high school's ethnic diversity unexpectedly leads to crisis when a Palestinian student demands that a display of flags include the banner of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The community threatens to break down...

Pavel Krivka: Civilian in the Czech Police

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

In the wake of the 1989 "Velvet Revolution," the newly democratic government of Czechoslovakia must face not only its future but the totalitarian past. That challenge is joined when the new leadership takes on the task of remaking the nation's...

Emily's List and Campaign Finance Reform

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

A federal legislative proposal, supported by the "good government" group Common Cause, would limit contributions of political action committees to election campaigns. The proposal runs into surprising opposition from liberal members of the House...

A Question of Values: The Case of Environmental Externalities in the Generation of Electrical Power (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

This is the 3-page sequel to a microeconomics case (1244.0) that uses the deliberations of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities as a vehicle for raising the issue of how to quantify the value of an environmental externality--in this...

A Question of Values: The Case of Environmental Externalities in the Generation of Electrical Power

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

This microeconomics case uses the deliberations of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities as a vehicle for raising the issue of how to quantify the value of an environmental externality--in this instance, power plant construction--and...

A Measure of Delight: The Pursuit of Quality at AT&T Universal Card Services (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

This total quality management case, focused on one of the most successful new initiatives by a major firm in the US, serves as a complement to the public sector TQM cases. It describes the theory and operations of the AT&T Universal card, a...