Cases

Industry Policy and Competition in US Navy (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1984, the US Navy began the task of choosing a shipyard to build the first in a new class of guided missile destroyers, the last major surface combatant ships to be constructed for the...

Industry Policy and Competition in US Navy

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1984, the US Navy began the task of choosing a shipyard to build the first in a new class of guided missile destroyers, the last major surface combatant ships to be constructed for the...

Mayor Evan Sweeney and the Police

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case is one of a series of hypothetical cases about fictional "Mayor Evan Sweeney," written for executive training programs for new mayors, that frame the quintessential problems faced...

The SEC and EDGAR

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

When the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to try to improve the speed and spread of the new information about firms contained in SEC filings, he turned to a...

The Indian Ocean Negotiations

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In June 1977, US and Soviet negotiators met in Moscow for the first round of talks on arms control in the Indian Ocean. Over the preceding decade, the growing political importance of that...

The Reykjavik Summit: Watershed or Washout?

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

On October 11 and 12, 1986, at Reykjavik, Iceland, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan met for the second time. The issues they intended to...

Lyndon Johnson and Czechoslovakia, 1968: Non-Intervention by Default?

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

The Soviet Union's 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia posed particularly awkward problems for the United States. The US had, since the Truman administration in 1949, been on record in support...

Finding Black Parents: One Church, One Child (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1980, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services faced a crisis. Over 700 black children in Cook County, including 69 infants, waited for adoption while the agency was unable...

Presidents as Sovereigns

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This excerpt from Richard Neustadt's lecture "Presidents, Politics and Analysis" is written in the style of the Neustadt and May's "Thinking in Time" cases, with their emphasis on the use of...

Jean Ekins and the Family Learning Center (Epilogue)

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...

Jean Ekins and the Family Learning Center (B)

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...

Breaking the Bad News: Divad

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

Between 1977 and 1985, the US Army invested almost $2 billion in the Divisional Air Defense, better known as Divad. The Army believed this modified tank, jammed with expensive computers,...