Cases

Language and the Melting Pot: Florida's 1988 "Official English" Referendum

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This is a case which might inspire discussion both about political strategy and the relation of marginalized cultural groups to the mainstream. It tells the story of a 1988 attempt via...

Changing a Hospital's Culture: The Guest Relations Program at Medical College of Virginia Hospitals

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A major teaching hospital in inner-city Richmond seeks to retain its tradition as a public research hospital serving all in need, at the same time it attracts new, fully-insured patients. As...

Against All Odds: The Campaign in Congress for Japanese American Redress

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The dramatic story of how the Japanese American community successfully lobbied Congress and the White House for legislation mandating financial compensation for those sent to detention camps...

Contracting for Management and Technical Services: Bringing Key Functions Back in House at the Naval Sea Systems (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

These cases explore the other side of the privatization debate: Can latitude in "contracting out" for services go too far? When one of the navy's major procurement agencies comes under...

Contracting for Management and Technical Services: Who's Been Running the Naval Sea Systems Command? (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

These cases explore the other side of the privatization debate: Can latitude in "contracting out" for services go too far? When one of the navy's major procurement agencies comes under...

Cocaine Mothers

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Early in 1989, prosecutors in Florida charged a woman with child abuse after she gave birth to her second baby born with signs of cocaine dependency. This case briefly summarizes the problem...

General Electric and the National Broadcasting Company: A Clash of Cultures

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

On June 9, 1986, General Electric Co. acquired the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for $6.8 billion, setting a record for the largest non-oil merger in US history. GE wanted RCA for its...

Battle of the Alamodome: Henry Cisneros and the San Antonio Stadium (Economic Analysis Version)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Economic Analysis Version of case HKS Case Number 896.0. Major government-funded public works projects are often touted both for the needs they will fulfill and the jobs they will provide...

Among Friends: Lynn Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Race for Chair of House Republican Conference

Publication Date: March 01, 1989

When Illinois Representative Lynn Martin seeks a place in the Republican congressional leadership, she finds herself in a very different kind of election campaign one without speeches or...

Building the Baltic

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

When the destruction or conversion of single-room occupancy hotels, or SROs, in San Diego's downtown seemed to lead to an increase in homelessness, a private real estate developer argued...

INF: The Second Zero

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

The 1987 intermediate nuclear forces treaty can be called the first true disarmament treaty of the nuclear age for having eliminated both short- and intermediate-range nuclear weapons from...

Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Charleston, South Carolina: The Politics of Preservation (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

A New South mayor's vision of economic development brings him into pitched conflict with preservation groups convinced that a hotel project threatens the integrity of Charleston, South...