Cases

The Treuhandanstalt: Taking a Nation Private (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The dramatic merger of the former East and West Germanys led to an historic mission for a new agency: the sale to private buyers of the vast assets of the former East Germany. The agency created for the purpose was the Treuhandanstalt, conceived...

Hungary Between East and West: The Dilemma over Yugoslavia (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This set of cases describes the diplomatic and economic pressures faced by the government of Hungary with the 1991 break-up of Yugoslavia and subsequent outbreak of the Balkan War, which occurred on Hungary's southern border with Serbia...

Hungary Between East and West: The Dilemma over Yugoslavia (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This set of cases describes the diplomatic and economic pressures faced by the government of Hungary with the 1991 break-up of Yugoslavia and subsequent outbreak of the Balkan War, which occurred on Hungary's southern border with Serbia...

Hungary Between East and West: The Dilemma over Yugoslavia (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This set of cases describes the diplomatic and economic pressures faced by the government of Hungary with the 1991 break-up of Yugoslavia and subsequent outbreak of the Balkan War, which occurred on Hungary's southern border with Serbia...

Introducing Computer-Based Remote Services in California: "Over the Counter Government"

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

New, computer-based technologies offer the prospect of new ways for government to provide services for citizens. That was the hope of the director of the data center of California's Health and Welfare Agency when, in 1991, he developed a new...

Reinventing Government in Visalia, CA: A Movement at Risk (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The contemporary "reinventing government" movement began with the efforts of Visalia, California, city manager Ted Gaebler to change traditional ways of doing business in that small northern California city. Gaebler would draw on his experiences...

Reinventing Government in Visalia, CA: A Movement at Risk (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The contemporary "reinventing government" movement began with the efforts of Visalia, California, city manager Ted Gaebler to change traditional ways of doing business in that small northern California city. Gaebler would draw on his experiences...

Reinventing Government in Visalia, CA: A Movement at Risk (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The contemporary "reinventing government" movement began with the efforts of Visalia, California, city manager Ted Gaebler to change traditional ways of doing business in that small northern California city. Gaebler would draw on his experiences...

Romani Politics in the Czech Republic

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The fall of Communism in Eastern Europe ushered in a new era of political freedom. At the same time, it opened an old Pandora's box of ethnic tensions and hatreds, suppressed in the ostensibly universalist Marxist regimes. Among the most...

Case of Zimetco

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This case is set in Zimbabwe and focuses on an education and training cooperative aimed at improving rural agriculture in the wake of that country's civil war in 1981. The organization becomes successful and influential under a dynamic leader...

Black Wednesday: The Bundesbank Connection

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

Throughout the 1980s, the lead of Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, in helping to align the currencies of the European Economic Union members appeared to serve a variety of potentially difficult-to-reconcile causes: political union in...

Managing Change or Running to Catch Up: CARE USA and Its Mission in Thailand

Publication Date: January 1, 1995

This case deals with different management problems in one of the world's largest and most important non-government organizations, CARE. From its origin as a post-World War II emergency feeding program, CARE has taken up the task of encouraging...