Cases

Sound Move: The Debate Over Seattle's Regional Transit System (Sequel)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The idea that the introduction or expansion of urban light rail systems could ease traffic congestion and air pollution has caught the imagination of many in American cities in recent decades. Yet, at the same time, questions about the...

The Challenge of Drastically Changing Times: The Urban League Adjusts to a Post-Civil Rights Landscape

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

When Hugh Price becomes head of the National Urban League, one of the most historically important African-American civil rights organizations in the U.S., he finds an organization in some disarray. As he arrives in 1994, the League's national...

Sound Move: The Debate Over Seattle's Regional Transit System (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The idea that the introduction or expansion of urban light rail systems could ease traffic congestion and air pollution has caught the imagination of many in American cities in recent decades. Yet, at the same time, questions about the...

Disaster By Design: California's Experience with Electricity Restructure: The Storm Hits (B)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The power shortages and blackouts of late 2000 and early 2001 drew international attention to the electricity deregulation regime adopted four years earlier by the state of California. This case provides a definitive account of the nature of...

Disaster By Design: California's Experience with Electricity Restructure: The Origins (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The power shortages and blackouts of late 2000 and early 2001 drew international attention to the electricity deregulation regime adopted four years earlier by the state of California. This case provides a definitive account of the nature of...

Epilogue: For a Culture of Building Care

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, high atop a great many of the older, concrete-block buildings of lower-income parts of central Hong Kong and the neighborhoods of the Kowloon peninsula, informal metal-framed wooden structures were built to house...

Law Enforcement and Unauthorized Building Works: Illegal Structures and the Hong Kong Buildings Department

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, high atop a great many of the older, concrete-block buildings of lower-income parts of central Hong Kong and the neighborhoods of the Kowloon peninsula, informal metal-framed wooden structures were built to house...

The Lump Sum Grant Initiative for Hong Kong Social Services

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

Notwithstanding its reputation as a free market bastion, Hong Kong has long been home to a well-developed, government-supported "social sector." Although many non-governmental social service organizations began as purely private and charitable,...

The Challenge of Participation: Drafting Mauritania's PRSP (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

In the late 1990s, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, under heavy pressure to find ways to relieve developing countries of large volumes of accumulated public debt, devise a way they believe offers a way to link such debt relief...

India: The Dabhol Power Corporation (B)

Publication Date: April 27, 2001

In the wake of the fraud conspiracy convictions of its former executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the name Enron will likely long be synonymous with corporate corruption. But how did it rise, to the point of being the sixth...

India: The Dabhol Power Corporation (A)

Publication Date: April 27, 2001

In the wake of the fraud conspiracy convictions of its former executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the name Enron will likely long be synonymous with corporate corruption. But how did it rise, to the point of being the sixth...

The Good Commissioner

Publication Date: April 01, 2001

A high-ranking district administrator in India, upon taking office, is informed that his predecessor agreed to acquire a plot of land for a local jail. When he learns that the landowner is the wife of an influential local politician, he becomes...