Cases

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...

Fall of the Shah of Iran

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In the first months of 1979, the Shah of Iran-on whom successive American administrations had relied as a pillar of strength in a strategic and turbulent region-fell from power. Less than a year earlier, no analyst, inside or outside government,...

Matters of Life and Death: Defunding Organ Transplants in the State of Arizona

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case draws on controversy triggered by a decision to direct medical care funds for the poor to mothers and young children--rather than expensive, life-saving organ transplant operations. In the wake of the death of Diana Brown, a...

Starting from Scratch: Alice Rivlin and the Congressional Budget Office (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

When Alice Rivlin became the first director of the Congressional Budget Office in February 1975, she found herself in charge of a new agency with no staff, no permanent offices, a very sketchy mandate from Congress as to its duties and...

Finding Black Parents: One Church, One Child

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 to find black parents. Director Gregory L. Color, with...

Beagle Channel Negotiations (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This three-part case concerns a territorial dispute between Argentina and Chile involving three small islands in the Beagle Channel at the southern tip of South America. Part A provides background on the 19th century origins of the dispute, and...

Beagle Channel Negotiations (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This three-part case concerns a territorial dispute between Argentina and Chile involving three small islands in the Beagle Channel at the southern tip of South America. Part A provides background on the 19th century origins of the dispute, and...

Beagle Channel Negotiations (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This three-part case concerns a territorial dispute between Argentina and Chile involving three small islands in the Beagle Channel at the southern tip of South America. Part A provides background on the 19th century origins of the dispute, and...