Cases

Massachusetts Department of Correction: Part II Abridged

Publication Date: January 01, 1977

This case series examines the tenure of John O. Boone as commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. Case # 166.3 is an abridgment of case # 166.0. Boone was appointed by Gov. Francis Sargent with a mandate to reform the...

Massachusetts Department of Correction: Part II

Publication Date: January 01, 1977

This case series examines the tenure of John O. Boone as commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. Boone was appointed by Gov. Francis Sargent with a mandate to reform the Massachusetts prison system. While bold in pursuing...

Massachusetts Department of Correction: Part I (Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1977

This case series examines the tenure of John O. Boone as commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. Case # 165.3 is an abridgment of case # 165.0. Boone was appointed by Gov. Francis Sargent with a mandate to reform the...

Massachusetts Department of Correction: Part I

Publication Date: January 01, 1977

This case series examines the tenure of John O. Boone as commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. Boone was appointed by Gov. Francis Sargent with a mandate to reform the Massachusetts prison system. While bold in pursuing...

Caspar Weinberger and Welfare Reform

Publication Date: January 01, 1977

This case examines the process of welfare reform policymaking initiated by Caspar Weinberger after his appointment as Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in November 1972. An admirer of Ronald Reagan's management of...

Knapp Commission and Patrick Murphy (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1977

This case considers the actions of two individuals committed to combatting corruption in the New York City Police Department. Mike Armstrong is chief counsel of the Knapp Commission, an independent commission established by the mayor to...

Knapp Commission and Patrick Murphy (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1977

This case considers the actions of two individuals committed to combatting corruption in the New York City Police Department. Mike Armstrong is chief counsel of the Knapp Commission, an independent commission established by the mayor to...

Knapp Commission and Patrick Murphy (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1977

This case considers the actions of two individuals committed to combatting corruption in the New York City Police Department. Mike Armstrong is chief counsel of the Knapp Commission, an independent commission established by the mayor to...

Automobile Emissions Control: The Sulfates Problem (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1977

This two-case set and sequel (HKS Cases 77.0, 78.0, & 78.1) examines EPA Administrator Russell Train's response to automakers' 1975 petition to extend the deadline for compliance with the 1970 Clean Air Act Amendments. Enforcement of the...

C-5A (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1976

When the first C-5A rolled out of its hangar in 1968, the giant transport plane was hailed by President Johnson as "a long leap forward in the effective military might of America." This case tells the saga of the C-5A, from its origins in...

C-5A (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1976

When the first C-5A rolled out of its hangar in 1968, the giant transport plane was hailed by President Johnson as "a long leap forward in the effective military might of America." This case tells the saga of the C-5A, from its origins in...

Jerome Miller and the Department of Youth Services (B) (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1976

In his first two years as Massachusetts Commissioner of Youth Services, Jerome Miller initiated a number of reform measures in an effort to provide more humane treatment for the young persons in his department's care, but he became increasingly...