Cases with Teaching Plans

Blessed are the Peacemakers: Senator Danforth as Special Envoy to the Sudan

Publication Date: October 14, 2009

After the attack on the World Trade Towers on September 11th, Senator John (Jack) C. Danforth's appointment as the president's special envoy to the Sudan took on a much deeper significance. As an ordained Episcopal priest, the senator, closely...

BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 19, 2009

The case sequel is both retrospective in describing BlueOrchard's development since the original case in response to a rapidly changing environment, and prospective in raising questions about BlueOrchard's future competitiveness in a perhaps...

Taking a Therapeutic Approach to Juvenile Offenders: The "Missouri Model"

Publication Date: May 14, 2009

In the early 1970s, the Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) took its first steps toward radically changing the way it dealt with youthful offenders remanded to its custody. For years, like most states, it had incarcerated juveniles...

Designing Impact Evaluations: Assessing Jamaica's PATH Program

Publication Date: April 30, 2009

This case asks participants to put themselves in the position of a government official in charge of selecting an evaluation design to assess the impact of a social program. The goal is to illustrate the tradeoffs that are made in the real world...

Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (Epilogue)

Publication Date: February 06, 2009

On one side, a loose network of protesters made arrangements for dramatizing their opposition to the WTO and international trade practices. At the same time, public safety officials from local, state, and federal agencies developed security...

Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999

Publication Date: February 06, 2009

On one side, a loose network of protesters made arrangements for dramatizing their opposition to the WTO and international trade practices. At the same time, public safety officials from local, state, and federal agencies developed security...

Crossrail (A): The Business Case (Abridged)

Publication Date: December 19, 2008

In 2008 Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a funding package for Crossrail, an ambitious project designed to relieve overcrowding on London's underground and railroad services by building a 21 kilometer (13 mile) tunnel under Central London...

Crossrail (B): The Politics of Approval

Publication Date: December 19, 2008

In 2008 Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a funding package for Crossrail, an ambitious project designed to relieve overcrowding on London's underground and railroad services by building a 21 kilometer (13 mile) tunnel under Central London...

Crossrail (A): The Business Case (Sequel)

Publication Date: December 19, 2008

In 2008 Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a funding package for Crossrail, an ambitious project designed to relieve overcrowding on London's underground and railroad services by building a 21 kilometer (13 mile) tunnel under Central London...

Crossrail (A): The Business Case

Publication Date: December 19, 2008

In 2008 Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a funding package for Crossrail, an ambitious project designed to relieve overcrowding on London's underground and railroad services by building a 21 kilometer (13 mile) tunnel under Central London...

The Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus and the City of Mosul, Iraq (Abridged)

Publication Date: July 21, 2008

This case (1834.0 and related epilogue 1834.1 and abridged case 1834.3) tells the story of Major General David Petraeus and the US Army's 101st Airborne Division in the months following the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the fall of Baghdad, and...

The Eli Lilly MDR-TB Partnership: Creating Private and Public Value

Publication Date: October 05, 2007

In 2003, pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly created the MDR-TB Partnership to fight MDR-TB, a form of tuberculosis. An estimated 450,000 new cases of this disease were reported each year, primarily in China, India, and Russia. The...