Cases

Discovery in the Amazon

Publication Date: June 01, 2004

In a world of increasingly fluid boundaries, public and private managers often face ethical challenges that cross familiar geographical and cultural lines. This disguised case recounts the experience of a chemical engineer from Brazil who...

Parks and Partnership in New York City: Adrian Benepe's Challenge (A)

Publication Date: June 01, 2004

New York's public parks, brought to their magnificent peak by the legendary Parks Commissioner Robert Moses in the mid-20th-century heyday of direct government activism, were in disarray in a new era of public-sector austerity. As the City's...

Corporate Values and Transformation (Sequel)

Publication Date: June 01, 2004

This case focuses on one of the largest and most successful of such microlenders, Mexico's Compartamos ("we share") organization, and raises questions about the most effective business model and scale of microlenders. Specifically, the case...

Corporate Values and Transformation: The Microlender Compartamos

Publication Date: June 01, 2004

Microlending, defined as very small loans advanced to very low-income entrepreneurs, has attracted wide attention as a potentially effective means to aid the economic development of impoverished nations. This case focuses on one of the largest...

BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets

Publication Date: June 01, 2004

Microfinance is a field that has received increasing attention over the years in the development community. It consists of the delivery of financial services to people excluded from traditional banking institutions. For many years, most work was...

The Yofu River Crossing

Publication Date: April 07, 2004

This fictionalized case describes a public finance policy analysis problem faced by a city in China. In order to reduce downtown congestion and create a pedestrian area, the city wants to provide shuttle transportation in and out of the city...

From Protest to Power: The Education of Martin McGuinness (Epilogue)

Publication Date: April 01, 2004

Known to Protestants as the “IRA Godfather of Godfathers” and to Catholics as a hero of the Irish Republican movement, Martin McGuinness is one of the most divisive figures in Northern Ireland. This case details McGuinness’ meteoric rise through...

From Protest to Power: The Education of Martin McGuinness

Publication Date: April 01, 2004

Known to Protestants as the IRA Godfather of Godfathers and to Catholics as a hero of the Irish Republican movement, Martin McGuinness is one of the most divisive figures in Northern Ireland. This case details McGuinness's meteoric rise through...

"Dealing with the Devil": The Tobacco Control Negotiations of 1997-98

Publication Date: March 25, 2004

The decade of the 1990s was one of increasingly bitter public criticism of the major US tobacco companies on the part of a number of anti-tobacco advocacy groups, who were collectively known as the tobacco control movement. In their zeal to...

Oxfam America: Becoming a Global Campaigning Organization

Publication Date: March 25, 2004

In 2000, Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization, launched itself on a bold new course. A small but respected agency, it had devoted itself for three decades to supporting partner organizations in developing countries...

TRIPS Part II: International Trade meets Public Health: TRIPS and Access to Medicines

Publication Date: March 22, 2004

The Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property (TRIPS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO) was the most comprehensive and far-reaching international agreement on intellectual property rights ever made. Perhaps the most widely discussed...

City of New York and the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (Epilogue)

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

This epilogue accompanies the main case 1730.0. The Office of Management and Budget of the City of New York is considering how to use a new source of revenue--the payments from the Tobacco Master Settlement. The recently settled tobacco lawsuit...