Cases

Fare Deal: Pricing Public Transit in New York

Publication Date: June 01, 1999

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority must decide whether to offer new fare options to the five million riders who use New York City's subway and bus system each day. The subway had operated with a "one-ride, one-price, any time of day"...

Twisting in the Wind? Ambassador April Glaspie and the Persian Gulf Crisis (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1999

This case chronicles the celebrated (some would say notorious) story of the actions of the US ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, on the eve of the August 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Diplomatic cables released by Iraq appear to show that...

A Day's Work for a Day's Wages: Boosting Worker Productivity in New York's Department of Sanitation

Publication Date: January 01, 1999

This municipal labor relations case tells the story of the effort by New York City's sanitation commissioner to convince, or force, the city's 11,000 "san-men" who work on the city's 1,000 garbage trucks, to reduce the cost of collecting the...

Prelude to War: US Policy Toward Iraq 1988-1990

Publication Date: January 01, 1999

This case tells the story of American policy toward Iraq up to the moment of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Based on declassified government documents as well as repeated in-depth interviews with top policymakers at the White House, the State...

Privatizing the Argentine Mail (Sequel)

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

In this case, Argentina's Minister of Economy, Domingo Cavallo, must decide how to deal with a problem of corruption that will be exacerbated if privatization of the Argentine Mail goes forward. Cavallo and his team approach this issue as if it...

Privatizing the Argentine Mail

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

In this case, Argentina's Minister of Economy, Domingo Cavallo, must decide how to deal with a problem of corruption that will be exacerbated if privatization of the Argentine Mail goes forward. Cavallo and his team approach this issue as if it...

The Tribasa Toll Road Trust

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

This case demonstrates how the international capital markets were used to obtain financing for the expansion of limited access highways in Mexico. Structured as a Rule 144A transaction, the offering securitized the future Mexican...

Mexico's Competition Law and the Federal Competition Commission

Publication Date: November 01, 1998

In 1992, Mexico passed a law making certain anti-competitive practices illegal and creating a Federal Competition Commission (Comision Federal de Competencia) to enforce competition policies. This case describes the considerations involved in...

A Public Hospital's Strategy for Survival: The Story of Cambridge Hospital

Publication Date: November 01, 1998

When a one-time public, charity hospital faces budget deficits and a municipality unwilling to bail it out, it must find a new role for itself in the contemporary U.S. health care system. Cambridge Hospital, long-known as Cambridge City...

Cleaning up the "Big Dirties": The Problem of Acid Rain

Publication Date: November 01, 1998

Shortly after his 1989 inauguration, President George Bush confronts a seemingly intractable dispute which had simmered through the 1980s: how to legislate the clean-up of the so-called "big dirties", large coal-burning Midwest power plants...

'Self-Help' Housing on the Texas-Mexico Border (A): Background Note

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

These cases tell the story of the complications which arise when a major state government agency attempts to use a nonprofit community-based organization as the means to implement an important new state program: low-cost, modestly-subsidized new...

'Self-Help' Housing on the Texas-Mexico Border (B): Background Note

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

These cases tell the story of the complications which arise when a major state government agency attempts to use a nonprofit community-based organization as the means to implement an important new state program: low-cost, modestly-subsidized new...