Cases

Swine Flu Decision: An Analytic Summary

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

This case invites students to use public policy tools to consider what to do when the government faces a possible, but not certain, outbreak of "swine flu."Learning Objective:The case invites students to use benefit-cost analysis and decision...

Hidrocapital: The Caracas Water Company

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

The public water company serving Caracas, Hidrocapital, must ration water because demand far exceeds supply. A major part of the problem is that many customers are illegally connected or simply ignore their water bills.Learning Objective:The...

Laura Johnston & the Sandia High School: Racial Transformation (C) (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Public high school principals hold one of the highest-pressure, frontline management jobs in government. Even in relative affluent communities where schools are popular, the day can pose a series of unexpected and momentous decisions, and in...

Laura Johnston & the Sandia High School: Racial Transformation (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Public high school principals hold one of the highest-pressure, frontline management jobs in government. Even in relative affluent communities where schools are popular, the day can pose a series of unexpected and momentous decisions, and in...

Laura Johnston & the Sandia High School: Racial Transformation (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Public high school principals hold one of the highest-pressure, frontline management jobs in government. Even in relative affluent communities where schools are popular, the day can pose a series of unexpected and momentous decisions, and in...

Tax Incentives for Charitable Giving (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

The growth of doubt about the value of government programs designed to help the poor leads a new generation of US conservatives to seek to frame an alternative approach. Proposed legislation would use the tax code to provide a powerful incentive...

Where Latin America Meets Brooklyn: ACCION International’s Effort to Import Microlending to the United States (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

ACCION International, well-known for its successful "microlending" to small entrepreneurs in Latin America, sets out to replicate its success among the poor in the United States. But when the major international non-profit organization sets up...

Tax Incentives for Charitable Giving

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

The growth of doubt about the value of government programs designed to help the poor leads a new generation of US conservatives to seek to frame an alternative approach. Proposed legislation would use the tax code to provide a powerful incentive...

Where Latin America Meets Brooklyn: ACCION International’s Effort to Import Microlending to the United States

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

ACCION International, well-known for its successful "microlending" to small entrepreneurs in Latin America, sets out to replicate its success among the poor in the United States. But when the major international non-profit organization sets up...

Persuading a President: Jimmy Carter & American Troops in Korea

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

In 1977 Jimmy Carter planned to withdraw American troops from South Korea. Two years later his subordinates and pressure from outsiders combined to force him, reluctantly, to reverse his judgment. Arguments about analytic methodology mix with...

Laura Johnston & the Sandia High School: Racial Transformation (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Public high school principals hold one of the highest-pressure, frontline management jobs in government. Even in relative affluent communities where schools are popular, the day can pose a series of unexpected and momentous decisions, and in...

Washington State Workers' Compensation Administration (B)

Publication Date: January 1, 1996

Like many such systems, the Washington State Workers Compensation Administration was, in the mid-1980s, in deep financial distress. Worse still, its fiscal problems were matched by deep problems of efficiency and morale, particularly in its...