Cases

Values in Conflict: The Furor over Admissions Policy at a Popular Virginia Magnet School (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 31, 2006

In this executive leadership case, the activist superintendent of Virginia's affluent Fairfax County public school district, Daniel A. Domenech, is faced with a complex, politically-loaded policy dilemma. At issue is the admissions policy for...

Values in Conflict: The Furor over Admissions Policy at a Popular Virginia Magnet School

Publication Date: August 31, 2006

In this executive leadership case, the activist superintendent of Virginia's affluent Fairfax County public school district, Daniel A. Domenech, is faced with a complex, politically-loaded policy dilemma. At issue is the admissions policy for...

The KIPP Schools: Deciding How to Go to Scale

Publication Date: August 11, 2006

When Michael Feinberg and Dan Levin established their fledgling Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) school in Houston in the early 1990s, they hoped only to prove in their own school that a highly-structured and demanding program could lift the...

The Boeing Tanker Lease Deal (B)

Publication Date: August 09, 2006

In May 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved an agreement allowing the Air Force to lease 100 converted Boeing 767 aircraft as aerial refueling tankers. The deal's critics, most prominently Senator John McCain, argued that no, the...

The Boeing Tanker Lease Deal (A)

Publication Date: August 09, 2006

The September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States precipitated US military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, increasing demand for certain military assets. Domestically, the attacks crippled an already struggling airline industry, hurting...

Going it Together: Coventry's Community Safety Partnership

Publication Date: August 09, 2006

This case looks at the adoption by the city of Coventry, UK, of a 1998 law meant to enhance collaboration among public agencies to reduce crime rates. Coventry created a Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership and hired staff to coordinate...

Hurricane Katrina: Responding to an "Ultra-Catastrophe" in New Orleans (B)

Publication Date: June 19, 2006

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting enormous damage, it initially appeared that the storm had spared low-lying New Orleans the...

Hurricane Katrina: Preparing for "The Big One" in New Orleans (A)

Publication Date: June 19, 2006

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting enormous damage, it initially appeared that the storm had spared low-lying New Orleans the...

Hard-Won Accord: British Columbia & EDS Canada Negotiate a Complex Revenue Management Contract

Publication Date: June 16, 2006

When a public sector agency decides to privatize a large government function (as opposed to a more discreet job), the process of negotiating the service contract becomes a more complex and far-reaching endeavor. This case study describes the...

The Mexican Government's Retail Chain: Politics, Social Welfare, and the Bottom Line

Publication Date: June 14, 2006

As of 2000, Mexico's Social Security System for Public Sector Workers not only provided a pension system for government employees but also ran the fifth largest retail chain in the nation, comprised of nearly 400 supermarkets, convenience...

Change in Chignahuapan: Reforming a Municipal Government in Mexico (Sequel)

Publication Date: June 09, 2006

For more than 70 years, beginning in 1929, one party—the Party of Institutional Revolution, known by its Spanish initials PRI—dominated political life in Mexico at all levels of government. But when Vicente Fox, a candidate of the...

Change in Chignahuapan: Reforming a Municipal Government in Mexico

Publication Date: June 09, 2006

For more than 70 years, beginning in 1929, one party—the Party of Institutional Revolution, known by its Spanish initials PRI—dominated political life in Mexico at all levels of government. But when Vicente Fox, a candidate of the...