Cases

An Ordeal in Iran

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An American business executive in revolutionary Iran seeks to take a series of steps to allow hundreds of his firm's employees to safely escape the country. But doing so, he finds, means doing business with a merchant who asks something in...

United Neighbors Against Drugs

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case, like the others in the drugs and law enforcement series, focuses on the efforts of a grassroots community group and on its dealings with police. The case is distinguished, however, by the fact that the community group is organized by...

Trials and Tribulation: New Balloon Pumps for the Brigham (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

A key decision at a major teaching hospital as to which type of "balloon pump" to purchase for treating heart disease patients becomes a test of the organization's commitment to creating a decision-making process in which a variety of interests...

Trials and Tribulation: New Balloon Pumps for the Brigham

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

A key decision at a major teaching hospital as to which type of "balloon pump" to purchase for treating heart disease patients becomes a test of the organization's commitment to creating a decision-making process in which a variety of interests...

Summit or Stand-Off: Responding to Lithuania's Bid for Independence

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

For some five decades, the United States considered the Baltic Republic of Lithuania to be a "captive nation," a country that had been annexed against its will into the Soviet Union. The US had never formally accepted the annexation, although...

Last Rights: Honoring a Patient's Wishes for Artificial Feeding (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

After an elderly woman, in apparently failing health, is sent to a nursing home, the nursing staff becomes convinced that she is responding to care and treatment. In the wake of new medical problems, however, the physician hired by her family...

Last Rights: Honoring a Patient's Wishes for Artificial Feeding

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

After an elderly woman, in apparently failing health, is sent to a nursing home, the nursing staff becomes convinced that she is responding to care and treatment. In the wake of new medical problems, however, the physician hired by her family...

Scaling Down the Bureaucracy

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The problem of excessively large public bureaucracies, in relationship to the size of the overall economy, plagues many developing countries. The Pacific Basin nation of Gapura--a disguised composite of similar emerging nations in that...

A Denver Neighborhood Tackles Crack

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

A new "block watch" organization springs up in Denver's Whittier neighborhood, in response to an invasion of big-time drug dealers. In the succeeding months, the organization badgers police and city agencies, some of which had never seen...

Solidarity in Transition: Poland in 1990

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case focuses on two dilemmas. First, the choices political leaders must make when a broad-based, mass movement like Solidarity is so successful that it must form a government, and second, what to do when the economic policies it advocates...

Civic Vision: Participatory City Planning in Cleveland in the 1980s

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When newly elected mayor George Voinovich takes office in Cleveland in 1982, he faces the challenge of a long-declining city where development proposals have been stalled by political acrimony. Inspired by a speech by nationally-known developer...

Brotherhood Crusade: Targeting Gangs and Drugs in a Los Angeles Neighborhood

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

A major black-run charitable organization in Los Angeles--the Brotherhood Crusade--decides in 1989 to "take back" a 48-square block swath of the city's black ghetto from drug dealers and gang members who appear to control it. The demonstration...