Cases

Lifeboats for Hong Kong: Britain Debates a Rescue Plan, 1989

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The Chinese crackdown on the dissidents in Tiananmen Square had a multi-faceted impact on Hong Kong, conjuring both long-term and immediate fears. This case, however, is concerned with a specific decision faced by the British government of Prime...

A Big Dark Pond: Britain, China and Hong Kong, 1979 (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When the governor of the British crown colony of Hong Kong is invited to an unprecedented meeting with top leaders of the People's Republic of China, he suddenly faces a decision about a crucial and delicate matter: the status of booming...

A Policewoman's (Non) Use of Deadly Force

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The new and growing presence of women in the police department of Houston, Texas does more than create a need for a new locker room. Women appear to introduce a different sense of policing tactics, particularly as regards the police response to...

The Electronic Benefit System in Ramsey County, Minnesota

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When banks in Ramsey County (Saint Paul), Minnesota decide to stop cashing welfare checks, the county faces a crisis. It must continue to provide a way for welfare recipients to receive their benefits. Yet it has exhausted the standard means of...

The Electronic Benefits System in Ramsey County, Minnesota (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When banks in Ramsey County (Saint Paul), Minnesota decide to stop cashing welfare checks, the county faces a crisis. It must continue to provide a way for welfare recipients to receive their benefits. Yet it has exhausted the standard means of...

Case of the Non-Performing Employee

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

In this disguised case, a senior manager in a federal agency must decide whether to approve the promotion of a secretary. The agency's personnel officer and chief administrative officer have argued that he should okay the promotion, even though...

Sanctions against Toshiba: The Aftermath of a Scandal

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The 1988 revelation that a subsidiary of the Japanese electronics firm Toshiba had supplied sensitive military hardware to the Soviet Union posed a surprisingly complex diplomatic problem for the Reagan administration. Although it had long been...

Mayor Evan Sweeney's Budget Cutbacks

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case is one of a series of hypothetical cases about fictional "Mayor Evan Sweeney," written for executive training programs for new mayors, that frame the quintessential problems faced by municipal chief executives.This case looks at...

"Affective Response": Market Pressures and Medical Practice in the Career of a Young Nurse

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case--one in a series of nursing/health care management cases--explores the boom and bust cycle psychiatric hospitals in Houston went through during the 1980s. It follows a single nurse as he gains increased responsibilities, just as the...

President Salinas' "Untouchables": Fighting Corruption in Mexico

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case explores the issue of widespread and persistent corruption, and the ways in which it so often complicates economic and political development strategies. It recounts the events of the anti-corruption campaign waged during the first two...

Neighborhood Crime Watch in Boston

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case focuses on community responses to the drug problem. It examines one approach to police-community relations in which the police provide technical support to fledgling community groups, hoping to enlist the eyes and ears of concerned...

New Kingdoms for the Five Kings: Discriminatory Redistricting and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case explores the decade-long political struggle over the geography of districts to be represented by members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the implication of the district lines for the political representation of...