Hero or Traitor? Edward Snowden and the NSA Spying Program $3.95 Publication Date: April 30, 2014 On June 5, 2013, a London newspaper reported that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers in the U.S. The story... Add to Cart
Primary Education in Pakistan: Show Me the Evidence $3.95 Publication Date: April 30, 2014 This case has two parts, a text-based case and a supplemental PowerPoint presentation. The case traces the evolution of an evidence-based research study on the education sector in Pakistan... Add to Cart
Role Responsibility, Official Disobedience, and the Supreme Court's Ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act $3.95 Publication Date: April 30, 2014 In June, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the federal Defense of Marriage Act violated the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection of equal liberty, effectively... Add to Cart
Health Care Reform in Massachusetts: Impacts on Public Health $3.95 Publication Date: April 24, 2014 In 2006, with healthcare costs and the number of uninsured rising, Massachusetts passed landmark legislation that aimed to provide health insurance to everyone in the state. A product of... Add to Cart
Knowledge Management at the World Bank: Part 2 $3.95 Publication Date: March 13, 2014 This case is about how the World Bank, after determining that the creation and dissemination of knowledge to the international development community was one of their strategic roles and... Add to Cart
Providing Pensions for the Poor: Targeting Cash Transfers for the Elderly in Mexico $3.95 Publication Date: March 05, 2014 When the Mexican Congress approved the country's 2007 budget, it included an appropriation of 8.5 billion pesos allocated to provide non-contributive pensions to senior citizens. President... Add to Cart
Target of Opportunity: South Africa's Western Cape Seeks a Role in the African Oil Boom $3.95 Publication Date: March 05, 2014 This strategy case describes an initiative in the Western Cape province of South Africa to capitalize on an oil boom off the western coast of Africa by cultivating an industrial cluster of... Add to Cart
Shaping the Future of Solar Power: Climate Change, Industrial Policy and Free Trade (B) $3.95 Publication Date: December 04, 2013 Shaping the Future of Solar Power: Climate Change, Industrial Policy and Free Trade (Part B), is the second of a two part case but may also be taught on its own. In May 2013, European Union... Add to Cart
The Geography of Poverty: Exploring the Role of Neighborhoods in the Lives of Urban, Adolescent Poor $3.95 Publication Date: December 02, 2013 In the American canon of anti-poverty programs, Moving to Opportunity (MTO)--a housing experiment conducted in the 1990s--stood out for its ambitious yet simple design. Under the experiment,... Add to Cart
The Hormone Therapy Controversy: What Makes Reliable Evidence $3.95 Publication Date: November 13, 2013 For nearly two decades, the leading evidence on hormone therapy was based on findings from observational studies like the Nurses Health Study. In 1985, researchers at Nurses Health Study... Add to Cart
Lesotho Hospital and Filter Clinics: A Public-Private Partnership $3.95 Publication Date: October 03, 2013 This case looks at a public-private partnership (PPP) between the Health Ministry for the government of Lesotho and a private consortium headed up by Netcare, a South African company, to... Add to Cart
City of Somerville: Using Activity-Based Budgeting to Improve Performance in the Somerville Traffic Unit $3.95 Publication Date: August 15, 2013 Since 2004, City of Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone has undertaken a series of fiscal reforms that have allowed the City to improve municipal services during financial hard times. A key... Add to Cart
