Cases

Senator McGrail and the Death Penalty

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This very short case, less than a page, is the story of a young Massachusetts state senator who is faced with a dilemma about how to vote on then-Governor Frank Sargent's veto of a bill restoring capital punishment. Senator McGrail is against...

Rhodesia Becomes Zimbabwe (B): The Lancaster House Conference

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This is Part B of a two-case sequence. HKS Case 816.0 is Part A: In September of 1977, the US and Britain announced a joint proposal for bringing majority rule and independence to Rhodesia, whose white minority government had for years been...

Rhodesia Becomes Zimbabwe (A): The US and the Internal Settlement

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This is Part A of a two-case sequence. In September of 1977, the US and Britain announced a joint proposal for bringing majority rule and independence to Rhodesia, whose white minority government had for years been embroiled in a civil war with...

Extradition of Mohammed Hamadei

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

On January 13, 1987, Mohammed Hamadei, a 22-year-old Lebanese man wanted in the US for his alleged role in the brutal 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847, was arrested in Frankfurt by West German police. Within hours, the US formally requested that...

Jean Ekins and the Family Learning Center (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

During the 1978-79 school year, the state of Michigan turned down Jean Ekins' application for model-site designation of her Leslie, Michigan Family Learning Center. Ekins had started the program four years earlier within the Leslie public school...

Trident Contracting (Epilogue 1988)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case describes the Navy's efforts to contract for what was generally considered an impossible task--the construction in less than five years of a nuclear-powered submarine of unprecedented size and complexity. The first part focuses on...

Trident Contracting: Negotiating the Contract (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case describes the Navy's efforts to contract for what was generally considered an impossible task--the construction in less than five years of a nuclear-powered submarine of unprecedented size and complexity. The first part focuses on...

Trident Contracting: Evaluating the Bids (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case describes the Navy's efforts to contract for what was generally considered an impossible task--the construction in less than five years of a nuclear-powered submarine of unprecedented size and complexity. The first part focuses on...

Trident Contracting: Drafting the RFP (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case describes the Navy's efforts to contract for what was generally considered an impossible task--the construction in less than five years of a nuclear-powered submarine of unprecedented size and complexity. The first part focuses on...

Achille Lauro Hijacking (B)

Publication Date: January 1, 1988

When the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked in October of 1985, the repercussions were wide, but reactions of individual governments varied. The hijacking, in which an American vacationer was murdered, an Italian crew held hostage...

Achille Lauro Hijacking (A)

Publication Date: January 1, 1988

When the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked in October of 1985, the repercussions were wide, but reactions of individual governments varied. The hijacking, in which an American vacationer was murdered, an Italian crew held hostage...

Paying the Bills at the Junta of Andalusia

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case explores the ways in which a seemingly mundane, undramatic function--the way in which a government pays its bills--can be linked to basic public perceptions of governmental legitimacy and efficiency. The question of how to organize...