Cases

Denver's International Airport: A Case Study in Large Scale Infrastructure Development (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This case examines the political negotiations which paved the way for the construction of the first major new airport to be built in the United States in the past 20 years. The A case describes the negotiations which led to a memorandum of...

Redheaded Stepchild and the Favorite Son: Resolving Disparities between Norfolk, VA's Paramedical Rescue Service and Fire Department

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A long-term decline in the city's number of fires, coupled with a long-term increase in calls for emergency medical services, seems to call for Norfolk, Virginia budget officials to take obvious steps: cut back the number of firefighters and...

Medicine and the Profit Motive: The Proposed Sale of McLean Hospital (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When a major for-profit US hospital corporation proposes to buy a prominent psychiatric hospital owned, at that point, by a non-profit hospital, the medical staff becomes alarmed.Learning Objective:A prominent medical school, whose relationship...

Incentives for Excellence at the Colorado State Hospital

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

The successful efforts of an energetic director to improve conditions at the Colorado State Hospital lead to an unexpected consequence: legislative budget committee members, after a tour, take the view that the hospital, because it looked so...

Igniting the Passions: Private vs. Public Fire Service in Suburban Phoenix

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

Unlike most metropolitan areas in the United States, Phoenix, Arizona, and its suburbs present a striking contrast in the means of delivering one of the most basic services for which government is responsible: fire protection. Many of the city's...

Managing a Press "Feeding Frenzy": Gregory Coler and the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A reform-minded director of one of the largest human services agencies in the United States brings an aggressive, entrepreneurial approach to his task. In his first two years on the job, Gregory Coler appears to awaken a slumbering agency,...

Managing a Press "Feeding Frenzy": Gregory Coler and the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A reform-minded director of one of the largest human services agencies in the United States brings an aggressive, entrepreneurial approach to his task. In his first two years on the job, Gregory Coler appears to awaken a slumbering agency,...

Medicine and the Profit Motive: The Proposed Sale of McLean Hospital

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When a major for-profit US hospital corporation proposes to buy a prominent psychiatric hospital owned, at that point, by a non-profit hospital, the medical staff becomes alarmed.Learning Objective:A prominent medical school, whose relationship...

Lead Poisoning (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This case traces the efforts of a variety of individuals, in and out of government, to solve the lead poisoning problem in New York City. Part A explains the problem of lead poisoning in urban areas and outlines the efforts of activists to force...

Vision and Strategy: Paul H. O'Neill at OMB and Alcoa (Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

Whether as analyst or deputy director at the federal Office of Management and Budget, or as the chief executive of Alcoa, Paul O'Neill has sought to inspire those working for him to approach their tasks with vision and without preconceptions. In...

Ordering Floppy Disks in Poland

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This five-paragraph case presents the process by which a basic office supply item had to be ordered by Polish government officials in January 1992.Learning Objective:As in many brief cases, the deceptively simple procedural description can...

Vision and Strategy: Paul H. O'Neill at OMB and Alcoa

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

Whether as analyst or deputy director at the federal Office of Management and Budget, or as the chief executive of Alcoa, Paul O'Neill has sought to inspire those working for him to approach their tasks with vision and without preconceptions. In...