Cases

DARPA and High Definition Systems: For Home or For War?

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The increase in military budgets during the 1980s set off renewed discussion of the impact of Pentagon spending on the civilian economy. Like the powdered orange juice developed by NASA for astronauts, could items developed for the military be...

High Price of Free Speech: Story of a Guatemalan Journalist

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case provides students of journalism, law and international affairs with a vivid picture of the effects of political and physical intimidation on the press. When a democratic government succeeds military rule in Guatemala, former engineer...

The Regulation of Mud Flaps

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

When Congress calls for new regulations governing the size and effectiveness of truck mud flaps, small companies which had dominated the mud flap market suddenly find themselves in trouble. Failure to adapt their products to the new regulations...

Constructive Engagement in South Africa: The Ethics of Persuasion

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case joins the debate surrounding the approach of constructive engagement, placing it in the context of South Africa itself and presenting the moral justification for the policy as put forward both by President Reagan and Assistant...

A Problem at the Housing Authority (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The executive director of a housing authority in a southwestern state uncovers evidence of collusion between the board of directors and a local realty corporation. After apparent attempts by the board president at bribery and intimidation, the...

A Problem at the Housing Authority

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The executive director of a housing authority in a southwestern state uncovers evidence of collusion between the board of directors and a local realty corporation. After apparent attempts by the board president at bribery and intimidation, the...

Arciniega's War in the Upper Huallaga Valley

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case supplements the geopolitical framework of Coca and the Shining Path in the Upper Huallaga Valley (C16-90-1020.0) by examining the strategy of a specific military officer charged with ending Marxist guerrilla domination of Peru's chief...

Fighting Fear in Baltimore County

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The police have always taken fighting fear to be part of their job, but they have always assumed that fear reduction was an inevitable by-product of traditional crime-control techniques like patrol and rapid response to 911 calls. Early in the...

Language and the Melting Pot: Florida's 1988 "Official English" Referendum (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This is a case which might inspire discussion both about political strategy and the relation of marginalized cultural groups to the mainstream. It tells the story of a 1988 attempt via referendum to declare English to be the official language of...

Language and the Melting Pot: Florida's 1988 "Official English" Referendum

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This is a case which might inspire discussion both about political strategy and the relation of marginalized cultural groups to the mainstream. It tells the story of a 1988 attempt via referendum to declare English to be the official language of...

Changing a Hospital's Culture: The Guest Relations Program at Medical College of Virginia Hospitals

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A major teaching hospital in inner-city Richmond seeks to retain its tradition as a public research hospital serving all in need, at the same time it attracts new, fully-insured patients. As a first step, a new top administrator decides to...

Against All Odds: The Campaign in Congress for Japanese American Redress

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The dramatic story of how the Japanese American community successfully lobbied Congress and the White House for legislation mandating financial compensation for those sent to detention camps in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The case...