Cases

Cracking the Monolith: California’s Child Welfare Services Disrupts Technology Procurement (B)

Publication Date: July 10, 2017

In October 2015, two senior California officials: Marybel Batjer, Secretary for Government Operations, and Michael Wilkening, Undersecretary for the Health and Human Services Agency, seized on an idea that had the potential to turn the...

Cracking the Monolith: California’s Child Welfare Services Disrupts Technology Procurement (A)

Publication Date: July 10, 2017

In October 2015, two senior California officials: Marybel Batjer, Secretary for Government Operations, and Michael Wilkening, Undersecretary for the Health and Human Services Agency, seized on an idea that had the potential to turn the...

A Sharper Look at Zero Tolerance: Reports of Sexual Assault Rock the United States Air Force Academy (Sequel)

Publication Date: June 30, 2017

This sequel accompanies case number 2098.0. The case traces the sexual assault scandal that rocked the United States Air Force Academy in 2003. Over a period of several months, dozens of current and former female students came forward to the...

A Sharper Look at Zero Tolerance: Reports of Sexual Assault Rock the United States Air Force Academy

Publication Date: June 30, 2017

This case traces the sexual assault scandal that rocked the United States Air Force Academy in 2003. Over a period of several months, dozens of current and former female students came forward to the media and government representatives about...

Fighting Pollution with Data: Environmental Audits and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board Sequel

Publication Date: June 29, 2017

In 2010, the overwhelmed Pollution Control Board in the Indian state of Gujarat faced a difficult path ahead. The agency charged with monitoring and enforcing pollution regulations in the heavily industrialized state had a problematic...

Rio de Janeiro Galeão International Airport Concession

Publication Date: June 15, 2017

In 2013, Rio de Janeiro's main international airport, Galeão, was set to be privatized through a 25-year term concession. The Brazilian government set a minimum bid value of $4.8 billion for the airport. Five consortia submitted bids,...

Trade Promotion Authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Publication Date: May 18, 2017

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a massive free trade agreement between the United States, Japan and ten other Pacific nations—was a vital element of US President Barack Obama’s trade policy. If completed, the TPP would be...

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Responding to the Crisis in the Gulf of Mexico

Publication Date: April 13, 2017

On April 20, 2010 an explosion rocked the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana. BP was using the Deepwater Horizon to drill an “ultra-deep” offshore well. The explosion was the...

Implementation of a New Country-Wide Social Safety-Net Program: The Jamaica PATH Program (Epilogue)

Publication Date: April 3, 2017

This epilogue accompanies Case Number 2058.0, "Implementation of a New Country-Wide Social Safety-Net Program: The Jamaica PATH Program." In 2002 the Jamaican government redesigned its social safety net programs for children and the elderly...

Implementation of a New Country-Wide Social Safety-Net Program: The Jamaica PATH Program (Part A )

Publication Date: April 3, 2017

In 2002, the Jamaican government redesigned its social safety net programs for children and the elderly. Their goal was to simplify and better target support to those individuals most in need. This case examines the new design for the PATH...

Examining the Role of Child Welfare in Addressing the Needs of the CSEC Population in Kentucky

Publication Date: March 30, 2017

In 2013 the Kentucky legislature passed legislation that made the child welfare agency (DCBS) responsible for investigating reported cases of Commercially Sexually Exploited Children and responding to their needs, but gave them no additional...

Martha Johnson and the General Services Administration (B)

Publication Date: March 28, 2017

In June 2009, Martha Johnson was selected to lead the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), a federal agency headquartered in Washington, D.C. that largely oversaw government procurement. After Johnson, a GSA veteran, was sworn into office...