Cases

Going it Together: Coventry's Community Safety Partnership

Publication Date: August 09, 2006

This case looks at the adoption by the city of Coventry, UK, of a 1998 law meant to enhance collaboration among public agencies to reduce crime rates. Coventry created a Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership and hired staff to coordinate...

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

Publication Date: June 19, 2006

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting enormous damage, it initially appeared that the storm had spared low-lying New Orleans the...

Hurricane Katrina: Preparing for "The Big One" in New Orleans (A)

Publication Date: June 19, 2006

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting enormous damage, it initially appeared that the storm had spared low-lying New Orleans the...

Hard-Won Accord: British Columbia & EDS Canada Negotiate a Complex Revenue Management Contract

Publication Date: June 16, 2006

When a public sector agency decides to privatize a large government function (as opposed to a more discreet job), the process of negotiating the service contract becomes a more complex and far-reaching endeavor. This case study describes the...

The Mexican Government's Retail Chain: Politics, Social Welfare, and the Bottom Line

Publication Date: June 14, 2006

As of 2000, Mexico's Social Security System for Public Sector Workers not only provided a pension system for government employees but also ran the fifth largest retail chain in the nation, comprised of nearly 400 supermarkets, convenience...

Change in Chignahuapan: Reforming a Municipal Government in Mexico (Sequel)

Publication Date: June 09, 2006

For more than 70 years, beginning in 1929, one party—the Party of Institutional Revolution, known by its Spanish initials PRI—dominated political life in Mexico at all levels of government. But when Vicente Fox, a candidate of the...

Change in Chignahuapan: Reforming a Municipal Government in Mexico

Publication Date: June 09, 2006

For more than 70 years, beginning in 1929, one party—the Party of Institutional Revolution, known by its Spanish initials PRI—dominated political life in Mexico at all levels of government. But when Vicente Fox, a candidate of the...

Too Many Parents? Making a Conservancy Work (B)

Publication Date: June 05, 2006

In April 2005, Nancy Brennan took over as director of the newly-created Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy in Boston. This case examines the challenges which faced her and the 10-person Conservancy board. The body, charged with raising money...

Too Many Parents? Governance of Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway (A)

Publication Date: June 05, 2006

This case study examines through the lens of governance structure the evolution of the Central Artery (or "Big Dig") in Boston, a public works project of historic proportion which had the potential to create a green oasis of parks in the heart...

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

Publication Date: April 10, 2006

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,...

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

Publication Date: April 10, 2006

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...

Agricultural Biotechnology Meets International Trade: The US-EU GMO Dispute (B)

Publication Date: April 07, 2006

This case traces the development of genetically-modified (GM) foods in the United States and in Europe. The US had from the start a commanding lead in GM food development and a correspondingly large stake in global acceptance of GM seeds and...