Cases

The Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus and the City of Mosul, Iraq (Abridged)

Publication Date: July 21, 2008

This case (1834.0 and related epilogue 1834.1 and abridged case 1834.3) tells the story of Major General David Petraeus and the US Army's 101st Airborne Division in the months following the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the fall of Baghdad, and...

Vision Mumbai

Publication Date: July 01, 2008

In 2006, officials of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and the State of Maharashtra were beginning to implement a plan to improve the economic fortunes of the city. Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, was India's richest city, with...

Merger Talks: The Story of Three Community Development Corporations in Boston (Epilogue)

Publication Date: May 29, 2008

In 2002, a successful community development corporation in Boston, Massachusetts was approached by two other organizations about potential mergers. Each organization had distinctive geographical and ethnic roots but there were clear financial...

Merger Talks: The Story of Three Community Development Corporations in Boston

Publication Date: May 29, 2008

In 2002, a successful community development corporation in Boston, Massachusetts was approached by two other organizations about potential mergers. Each organization had distinctive geographical and ethnic roots but there were clear financial...

Mario Laborin and the Turnaround of Mexico's Nacional Financiera Development Bank (A)

Publication Date: April 29, 2008

Mexico went through a major political transition in 2000, when Vicente Fox was elected President. Change was in the air throughout the country, and especially in government entities. One such entity was NAFINSA, the national development bank...

Mario Laborin and the Turnaround of Mexico's Nacional Financiera Development Bank (B)

Publication Date: April 29, 2008

Mexico went through a major political transition in 2000, when Vicente Fox was elected President. Change was in the air throughout the country, and especially in government entities. One such entity was NAFINSA, the national development bank...

Crossing the Line: Don Imus and the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team

Publication Date: April 18, 2008

On April 4, 2007, talk show host Don Imus, while chatting with his sidekicks on his morning radio program, referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team--which had lost a college championship game the previous evening--as nappy-headed hos...

Hurricane Katrina: Responding to an "Ultra-Catastrophe" in New Orleans (Abridged) (C)

Publication Date: April 10, 2008

On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, meteorologists in the US National Weather Service spotted a tropical depression in the southeastern Bahamas. As it strengthened into a tropical storm, weather officials gave it a name, Katrina, and closely tracked it...

Hurricane Katrina: The Looming Storm (Abridged) (B)

Publication Date: April 10, 2008

On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, meteorologists in the US National Weather Service spotted a tropical depression in the southeastern Bahamas. As it strengthened into a tropical storm, weather officials gave it a name, Katrina, and closely tracked it...

Hurricane Katrina: Preparing for “The Big One” in New Orleans (Abridged) (A)

Publication Date: April 10, 2008

On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, meteorologists in the US National Weather Service spotted a tropical depression in the southeastern Bahamas. As it strengthened into a tropical storm, weather officials gave it a name, Katrina, and closely tracked it...

NGO Microfinance in the Tibet Autonomous Region (Epilogue)

Publication Date: March 14, 2008

In 1998, the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF), a small, US-based non-governmental organization, launched an initiative to bring the benefits of microfinance to the impoverished people of rural Tibet. Based on the lending model pioneered by...

NGO Microfinance in the Tibet Autonomous Region

Publication Date: March 14, 2008

In 1998, the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF), a small, US-based non-governmental organization, launched an initiative to bring the benefits of microfinance to the impoverished people of rural Tibet. Based on the lending model pioneered by...