Cases

Women in Philanthropy: Mrs. Russell Sage (Margaret Olivia Slocum)

Publication Date: January 01, 2000

This collection of cases written for the Hauser Center on Nonprofit Management provide essential histories of the lives and philanthropic motivations and choices of some of the most significant women philanthropists in American history. They...

Family Foundation Governance at the J.M. Kaplan Fund

Publication Date: December 2, 1999

When the patriarch of a long-establish New York family foundation dies, long-submerged tensions within and between generations spark a crisis in the governance of the foundation. One family member who had historically been given license by the...

Struggle over Monet's Field of Poppies, Near Giverny: Who should benefit?

Publication Date: November 01, 1999

On August 19, 1999, lawyers representing Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) and attorneys for The White Fund of Lawrence, Massachusetts were in Suffolk Superior Court to plead their case in a legal battle that had begun earlier that year. At...

Don Williams' Effort to Empower South Dallas: A Commitment to Empowerment (Epilogue)

Publication Date: October 01, 1999

When Don Williams, the president and chief executive officer of the Dallas real estate and services giant Trammel Crow, decides, in 1994, to leave the position, he does so with big plans for his post-corporate life. Williams, much-influenced by...

Don Williams' Effort to Empower South Dallas: Helping a Neighborhood Help Itself

Publication Date: October 01, 1999

When Don Williams, the president and chief executive officer of the Dallas real estate and services giant Trammel Crow, decides, in 1994, to leave the position, he does so with big plans for his post-corporate life. Williams, much-influenced by...

The Melbourne City Link

Publication Date: June 01, 1999

The Melbourne City Link, a $2 billion privately-funded highway project, was one of the first fully electronic toll roads in the world. While the government of the State of Victoria specified this innovative tolling system in the tender for the...

Municipal Decentralization in Buenos Aires (Sequel)

Publication Date: February 01, 1999

As part of its efforts to recover from hyperinflation and an oversized public sector, the government of Argentina specifically the province of Buenos Aires seeks to control costs and improve service in local government. To do so, the provincial...

Municipal Decentralization in Buenos Aires: Creating the Municipality of Hurlingham

Publication Date: February 01, 1999

As part of its efforts to recover from hyperinflation and an oversized public sector, the government of Argentina--specifically the province of Buenos Aires--seeks to control costs and improve service in local government. To do so, the...

Privatizing the Argentine Mail (Sequel)

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

In this case, Argentina's Minister of Economy, Domingo Cavallo, must decide how to deal with a problem of corruption that will be exacerbated if privatization of the Argentine Mail goes forward. Cavallo and his team approach this issue as if it...

Privatizing the Argentine Mail

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

In this case, Argentina's Minister of Economy, Domingo Cavallo, must decide how to deal with a problem of corruption that will be exacerbated if privatization of the Argentine Mail goes forward. Cavallo and his team approach this issue as if it...

The Tribasa Toll Road Trust

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

This case demonstrates how the international capital markets were used to obtain financing for the expansion of limited access highways in Mexico. Structured as a Rule 144A transaction, the offering securitized the future Mexican...

Mexico's Competition Law and the Federal Competition Commission

Publication Date: November 01, 1998

In 1992, Mexico passed a law making certain anti-competitive practices illegal and creating a Federal Competition Commission (Comision Federal de Competencia) to enforce competition policies. This case describes the considerations involved in...