Cases

What the Market Will Bear: The CIA and the International Debt Crisis

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When the inability of developing countries to repay vastly expanding debt threatens, in the early 1980s, to undermine the world financial order, CIA analysts were among the first to try to spread the alarm. Officials at other agencies, notably...

Privatizing the Albany County Airport: Abridged

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An antiquated airport jeopardizes a region's economic health but the county of Albany, New York, operator of the airport, lacks funds to undertake much-needed capital improvements. In this context, the county executive seriously examines...

On the Kindness of Strangers: The Origins and Early Days of FINCEN

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When the Bush administration considers ways in which to make good on its pledge to win the war against drugs, it turns to a new type of law enforcement agency. The Financial Crime Enforcement Network, a division of the Treasury Department...

Providing Obstetrical Care to Indigent Women in Montgomery County, Maryland (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This is a 6-page sequel to HKS Case 1077.0. When obstetricians at the sole hospital in affluent Montgomery County, Maryland, treating poor women decide the financial risks of such service outweigh its benefits, the county confronts a health care...

Providing Obstetrical Care to Indigent Women in Montgomery County, Maryland

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When obstetricians at the sole hospital in affluent Montgomery County, Maryland, treating poor women decide the financial risks of such service outweigh its benefits, the county confronts a health care crisis. The group of women most in need of...

Mayor Evan Sweeney's Budget Cutbacks (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This 4-page sequel to HKS Case 1068.0 is part of a series of hypothetical sketches about quintessential municipal leadership problems facing fictional "Mayor Evan Sweeney." This case looks at tradeoffs and strategic options available to the...

Mayor Evan Sweeney: Grievances in the Public Works Department

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 concerns labor...

Reforming the Rabat Bus System (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This two-part case is based in the situation of La Regie, the public transit system in Morocco's capital city. The case is told from the point of view of an advisor to the country's Ministry of Interior, who must implement a directive from the...

Reforming the Rabat Bus System (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This two-part case is based in the situation of La Regie, the public transit system in Morocco's capital city. The case is told from the point of view of an advisor to the country's Ministry of Interior, who must implement a directive from the...

Burning Down the House: The Sherwin-Williams Warehouse Fire of 1987 (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case tells the dramatic story of the most spectacular fire to strike Dayton, Ohio in many years--and the decision of the city's fire chief not to put it out. This is a decision-forcing case which asks readers to consider the dilemma of...

Solving Seattle's Solid Waste Crisis (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The closing of two landfill sites creates a municipal crisis in Seattle, forced to find new disposal options for the 2,000 tons of garbage it produces each day. Political concerns over what appears to be the most practical disposal...

Sunshine and Shadow: The CIA and the Soviet Economy

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

After nearly 40 years of steady, rigorous, remarkably open, and respected analysis of the Soviet economy, the CIA stood accused in the early 1990s of having gotten the answer badly wrong: so much so that Daniel Patrick Moynihan had called for...