Cases

  • Teaching Case - Peabody's Trailer Parks

    Peabody's Trailer Parks

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    In the late 1984, when the owners of trailer parks housing 2,000 residents of Peabody, Massachusetts, threatened to evict their tenants and redevelop the land for other uses because they cannot get satisfactory rent increases under the city's...

  • Classic Case - Plastic in the Public Sector

    Plastic in the Public Sector

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    This five-paragraph case sketches a debate in the state of Minnesota about whether to allow to pay for their annual $15 park permits by credit card. The debate took place in the context of a larger Department of Natural Resources effort to...

  • Teaching Case - Ellen Schall and the Department of Juvenile Justice

    Ellen Schall and the Department of Juvenile Justice

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    This "Innovations in State and Local Government" case begins in January 1983, when Ellen Schall is appointed commissioner of New York City's Department of Juvenile Justice, an agency in upheaval. DJJ was established to detain seven- to...

  • Teaching Case - Department of Transportation and Airport Landing Slots

    Department of Transportation and Airport Landing Slots

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    The ability of commercial airlines to fly their planes means little without a space in which to land them. In some congested US airports, the times and spots for landing are known as "landing slots" and have been assigned to airlines at the...

  • Teaching Case - Civil War Shoulder Arms (B Sequel)

    Civil War Shoulder Arms (B Sequel)

    $2.45

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union army faced the task of supplying the growing numbers of Union conscripts with shoulder arms. Existing government stockpiles were inadequate, and the chief of ordnance was forced to consider the...

  • Teaching Case - Civil War Shoulder Arms (B)

    Civil War Shoulder Arms (B)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union army faced the task of supplying the growing numbers of Union conscripts with shoulder arms. Existing government stockpiles were inadequate, and the chief of ordnance was forced to consider the...

  • Teaching Case - Civil War Shoulder Arms (A)

    Civil War Shoulder Arms (A)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union army faced the task of supplying the growing numbers of Union conscripts with shoulder arms. Existing government stockpiles were inadequate, and the chief of ordnance was forced to consider the...

  • Teaching Case - Rural Reform in Centropico (B)

    Rural Reform in Centropico (B)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    This case illustrates the opportunities and difficulties posed in envisioning a strategy to enact and implement land reform policy in the complex political environment of a developing country. Professor Donna Lawrence, an American expert on...

  • Teaching Case - Rural Reform in Centropico (A)

    Rural Reform in Centropico (A)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    This case illustrates the opportunities and difficulties posed in envisioning a strategy to enact and implement land reform policy in the complex political environment of a developing country. Professor Donna Lawrence, an American expert on...

  • Teaching Case - Note on Competitive Bypass

    Note on Competitive Bypass

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1986

    In 1986, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), a private utility company serving most of northern and central California, was facing the loss of many of its biggest and best customers. The threat came not from conservation, general economic...

  • Teaching Case - Deciding to Use Force in Grenada

    Deciding to Use Force in Grenada

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1986

    In late October 1983, United States military forces landed on the Caribbean island-nation of Grenada—the first time U.S. forces had intervened in their own hemisphere in a generation. The United States' immediate concern was the safety of...