Cases with Teaching Plans

Privatizing the Argentine Mail (Sequel)

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

In this case, Argentina's Minister of Economy, Domingo Cavallo, must decide how to deal with a problem of corruption that will be exacerbated if privatization of the Argentine Mail goes forward. Cavallo and his team approach this issue as if it...

Privatizing the Argentine Mail

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

In this case, Argentina's Minister of Economy, Domingo Cavallo, must decide how to deal with a problem of corruption that will be exacerbated if privatization of the Argentine Mail goes forward. Cavallo and his team approach this issue as if it...

The Tribasa Toll Road Trust

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

This case demonstrates how the international capital markets were used to obtain financing for the expansion of limited access highways in Mexico. Structured as a Rule 144A transaction, the offering securitized the future Mexican...

Mexico's Competition Law and the Federal Competition Commission

Publication Date: November 01, 1998

In 1992, Mexico passed a law making certain anti-competitive practices illegal and creating a Federal Competition Commission (Comision Federal de Competencia) to enforce competition policies. This case describes the considerations involved in...

The Widening of Ping An Avenue: Making Decisions about Historic Preservation

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

In 1997, the municipal government of Beijing began planning how to widen a congested arterial road that ran through the Chinese capital's historic center, just blocks from the palaces of the Forbidden City. This case describes the somewhat...

Mental Health, Medicaid, and Managed Care: Building a Unified System in Massachusetts (Epilogue)

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

This case describes the policy and management tensions which arise when the managed care approach is applied to patients cared for through the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and formerly housed in traditional hospital settings--and...

Mental Health, Medicaid, and Managed Care: Building a Unified System in Massachusetts

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

This case describes the policy and management tensions which arise when the managed care approach is applied to patients cared for through the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and formerly housed in traditional hospital settings--and...

ANDA: Transforming El Salvador's Water Company

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

In 1998, most officials in El Salvador recognize that the water infrastructure and the institutions responsible for managing that infrastructure are in disrepair. Without reforms, the country would be unable to provide water and sewerage...

A Funder-Agency "Partnership": The Fathers and Families Together Project

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

This philanthropic policy case describes the efforts of the Cleveland-based O'Neill Foundation to initiate--and closely monitor--a neighborhood-focused program to encourage African-American fathers to play a more active role in the lives of...

SAGASCO Holdings Limited

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

In the summer of 1993, Australia's Trade Practices Commission was considering whether or not to permanently enjoin Santos Limited from acquiring SAGASCO Holdings Limited. This merger was potentially of enormous significance, since Santos was the...

Pushing the Boundaries: Redistricting the Kentwood Schools

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

The issue of racial integration in public schools has typically taken the form of controversies about busing across neighborhood lines in big cities, or proposed cross-boundary desegregation involving cities and their surrounding suburbs. The...

Aguas de Cartagena: The Privatization of Water in Cartagena, Colombia (Sequel)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1992, Mayor Gabriel Garcia Romero confronted a situation all too familiar in developing countries--an inadequate and under capitalized water system. Only 28 percent of Cartagena's households had reliable drinking water. Thirty percent were...