Cases

Homelessness in Harvard Square: Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Action

Publication Date: September 12, 2014

This case study is set in Harvard Square in 2012-2013, and explores how a diverse group of local stakeholders (e.g. the Cambridge Police Department, city agencies, churches, nonprofit service providers, Harvard Square businesses) comes together...

Wellness is Everyone's Business: Public-Private Partnerships for Health in Minnesota

Publication Date: August 29, 2014

Like many other states at the time, Minnesota found itself facing several serious long-term public health challenges in the mid- and late-2000s, including rapidly rising health care costs and residents' increasing vulnerability to chronic...

Recovery in Aurora: The Public Schools' Response to the July 2012 Movie Theater Shooting (B)

Publication Date: August 29, 2014

In July 2012, a gunman entered a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and opened fire, killing 12 people, injuring 58 others, and traumatizing a community. This case briefly describes the shooting and emergency response but focuses primarily on the...

Recovery in Aurora: The Public Schools' Response to the July 2012 Movie Theater Shooting (A)

Publication Date: August 29, 2014

In July 2012, a gunman entered a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and opened fire, killing 12 people, injuring 58 others, and traumatizing a community. This case briefly describes the shooting and emergency response but focuses primarily on the...

Betting Private Capital on Fixing Public Ills: Instiglio Brings Social Impact Bonds to Colombia

Publication Date: August 01, 2014

In July 2012, three freshly-minted Harvard Kennedy School graduates bought one-way tickets to Medellin, Colombia, to launch a nonprofit startup they called Instiglio. Their idea: to bring Social Impact Bonds, still experimental even in affluent...

Nuclear Power & the Language of Diplomacy: Negotiating a Game-Changing Nuclear Trade Agreement with India (Sequel)

Publication Date: June 18, 2014

This sequel accompanies case number 2023.0. This decision-forcing case focuses on a diplomatic challenge faced by US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran between April and July...

Nuclear Power & the Language of Diplomacy: Negotiating a Game-Changing Nuclear Trade Agreement with India

Publication Date: June 18, 2014

This decision-forcing case focuses on a diplomatic challenge faced by US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran between April and July 2005: the writing of a 400-word joint statement...

In the Crossfire: Guns, Legislative Leadership and Recall Politics in Colorado

Publication Date: June 18, 2014

In 2013, democratic Colorado state senators John Morse and Angela Giron were recalled from office in the wake of a successful recall campaign launched by grassroots groups angered by the senators' support for newly-enacted gun control...

Inundation: The Slow-Moving Crisis of Pakistan's 2010 Floods (Epilogue)

Publication Date: June 16, 2014

This epilogue accompanies case 2016.0. In summer 2010, unusually intense monsoon rains in Pakistan triggered slow-moving floods that inundated a fifth of the country and displaced millions of people. This case describes how Pakistan's government...

Inundation: The Slow-Moving Crisis of Pakistan's 2010 Floods (B)

Publication Date: June 16, 2014

In summer 2010, unusually intense monsoon rains in Pakistan triggered slow-moving floods that inundated a fifth of the country and displaced millions of people. This case describes how Pakistan's government responded to this disaster and...

Inundation: The Slow-Moving Crisis of Pakistan's 2010 Floods (A)

Publication Date: June 16, 2014

In summer 2010, unusually intense monsoon rains in Pakistan triggered slow-moving floods that inundated a fifth of the country and displaced millions of people. This case describes how Pakistan's government responded to this disaster and...

Negotiating from the Margins: The Santa Clara Pueblo Seeks Key Ancestral Lands (Video Supplements)

Publication Date: May 22, 2014

These video supplements accompany HKS Case# 2021, "Negotiating from the Margins: The Santa Clara Pueblo Seeks Key Ancestral Lands." This negotiations case describes the approach, over time, of Santa Clara, a small Pueblo Indian tribe in New...