Cases

Policing Chicago's Public Housing Developments: Operating in a Unique Environment

Publication Date: June 01, 1998

The infamous Cabrini-Green public housing project, dominated by large violent criminal gangs, is the setting for this case describing the unusual tactics of a group of Chicago police. The "Slick Boys", a group of veteran officers use rap...

Discussing Disaster: Picking up the Pieces (D)

Publication Date: April 01, 1998

This is both a crisis management communication case and a case about the relationship between civil servants and local government in a fledgling democracy. Set in Hong Kong, the case describes the confluence of events which lead to what is...

Discussing Disaster: Apology? (C)

Publication Date: April 01, 1998

This is both a crisis management communication case and a case about the relationship between civil servants and local government in a fledgling democracy. Set in Hong Kong, the case describes the confluence of events which lead to what is...

Discussing Disaster (A)

Publication Date: April 01, 1998

This is both a crisis management communication case and a case about the relationship between civil servants and local government in a fledgling democracy. Set in Hong Kong, the case describes the confluence of events which lead to what is...

Office of the Rail Regulator (Abridged)

Publication Date: March 09, 1998

This case describes the first four years of John Swift's tenure as Britain's Rail Regulator and the issues he faced in the fall of 1997. The post of Rail Regulator had been created by the Railway Act of 1993, as part of a plan to break up and...

Defending National Interest: Ukraine and Peacekeeping in Transdniestr

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

The last quarter of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of what is arguably a new sort of military operation, one designed to keep warring factions apart so a nation's social fabric can heal, with bloodshed suppressed. Peacekeeping,...

Price Cap: The UK's Efforts to Regulate Regional Distribution Companies

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

This case focuses on the efforts by Stephen Littlechild, the United Kingdom's electricity regulator in the mid-1990s, to set performance-based rates for the country's 13 electricity distribution companies. The case allows for a class discussion...

Capitalization: The Politics of Privatization in Bolivia

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

In this case, the president of Bolivia and a team of officials grapple with questions of how to set up a model for privatizing a number of state-owned enterprises. In the 1980s, Bolivia, like most other Latin American countries, embraced a more...

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the One Neighborhood for Everyone Collaborative

Publication Date: December 01, 1997

In the early 1990s, crime begins to spiral out of control in the rapidly growing Penwood/Arville neighborhood of Las Vegas, the fastest-growing city in the U.S. Police, however, face a series of obstacles in their efforts to control it. The...

Norfolk's Police Assisted Community Enforcement (PACE): The Bay View and East Norview Neighborhoods

Publication Date: December 01, 1997

In the early 1990s, two quite different neighborhoods in Norfolk, Virginia are both struggling against crime. In Bay View, crime is an exceptional problem in select areas, marring a generally safe neighborhood. In East Norview, drugs and violent...