Cases

Making Place for Migrants: Housing Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands

Publication Date: November 7, 2022

 Mid-2015, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the Near East sought asylum in the European Union. At the spike of the influx, over 4,000 asylum seekers, most from war-torn Syria, were landing in the Netherlands each week. The Dutch...

Conflict Minerals: Influencing the Supply Chain for Public Purpose (Postscript)

Publication Date: November 2, 2022

This postscript accompanies HKS Case Number 2248.0. Gold, tungsten, tantalum, and tin are essential to a wide array of today's products. Industries ranging from electronics to health care to defense rely on these minerals. A sizable portion of...

Conflict Minerals: Influencing the Supply Chain for Public Purpose

Publication Date: November 2, 2022

Gold, tungsten, tantalum, and tin are essential to a wide array of today's products. Industries ranging from electronics to health care to defense rely on these minerals. A sizable portion of these minerals are sourced from Democratic Republic...

Mexico City's Hoy No Circula: Restricting Car Travel to Abate Air Pollution (B)

Publication Date: October 6, 2022

The rapid, sprawling growth of the Mexico City megalopolis—combined with industrialization, a fast-expanding fleet of gas-fueled vehicles, and a location vulnerable to deadly thermal inversions—led to a serious air pollution crisis...

Mexico City's Hoy No Circula: Restricting Car Travel to Abate Air Pollution (A)

Publication Date: October 6, 2022

The rapid, sprawling growth of the Mexico City megalopolis—combined with industrialization, a fast-expanding fleet of gas-fueled vehicles, and a location vulnerable to deadly thermal inversions—led to a serious air pollution crisis...

Leadership and Negotiation: Ending the Western Hemisphere’s Longest Running Border Conflict

Publication Date: October 4, 2022

For centuries, Ecuador and Peru each claimed sovereignty over a historically significant, but sparsely inhabited tract of borderland in the Amazonian highlands. The heavily disputed area had led the two nations to war—or the brink of...

Work or Exploitation? Debating Whether to Decriminalize the Sex Industry

Publication Date: August 12, 2022

As traditionally written and enforced, laws regulating the sex trade in the United States and abroad have disproportionately penalized the least powerful players in the industry—the people, mostly cis- and transgender women, directly...

Galvis City Schools Collective Bargaining Simulation

Publication Date: June 8, 2022

This is a seven-party exercise, with six negotiators and one facilitator. Representatives from a large school district and its affiliated teachers’ union must negotiate for three rounds. The Mayor serves as a facilitator and convening...

Postage Due: The Financial Crisis at the United States Postal Service

Publication Date: June 1, 2022

Publication Date: June 1, 2022

In October 2020, the Inspector General of the United States Postal Service (USPS) conducted a survey of the American public and found that despite service challenges largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic—employee absenteeism, mail, and...

Embracing the Uphill Struggle: Marc Morial’s Quest for Corporate Diversity

Publication Date: October 25, 2021

As incoming President and CEO of the National Urban League in 2003, Marc Morial believed that promoting racial equity in corporate America was a natural part of the organization’s remit. In the latter third of the 20th century, the NUL had...

Casa Pueblo: Community-Based Electricity Resilience in Puerto Rico

Publication Date: March 28, 2022

Category 5 Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 ravaging the Island. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority reported that all customers were without power unless they had their own generators. However, in the mountain town...

When Gender Matters in Organizational Negotiations

Publication Date: March 18, 2022

Learning Objective:The overarching learning objective is to help students recognize the situational circumstances that moderate gender effects in negotiation. Core lessons include: (a) A person’s gender is not a reliable predictor of their...