Cases with Teaching Plans

Oversight of the Criminal Division (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

Philip Heymann, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice, is under pressure from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to provide them with files on several public corruption cases and to...

Quality Control (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

Under pressure from President Carter to gain control of her agency's budget, Carol Tucker Foreman, assistant secretary of agriculture for food and consumer services, introduced new, less labor intensive methods of quality control into the Meat...

Bill White and the Veterans Administration

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

In this disguised case, Jack Goldman, director of the Illiana Veterans Administration Hospital, and his assistant for administrative services, Bill White, are requested by the new VA administration in Washington, DC to offer a position in the...

Office Confrontation

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

In this disguised case, Colonel Orin Starr, the manager of the Centurion missile system in Materiel Command, learns that Seymour Swope, a civilian acting branch chief, and Colonel John Harrison, Starr's deputy, recently tangled in a heated...

Regional Housing in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

In 1976 HUD created the Areawide Housing Opportunity Plan, which provided financial incentives for local jurisdictions in developing regional plans for housing assistance. Aid thus went to a variety of housing alternatives throughout a...

Community Development in Gainesville (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

This case traces the experience of Gainesville, Georgia, with federal grants for community development. Part A describes the genesis and development of Gainesville's Model Cities program from 1967 until 1973. The city, generally conservative and...

Audrey Simmons and the FAA

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

The National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center (NAFEC), a facility of the FAA located in a community afflicted with high unemployment, particularly among minorities, was reputed to be reluctant to hire local residents. After five months on...

Malcolm X

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

This case traces the life of Malcolm X, a leader of the Black Muslims and a powerful voice for black pride, from his birth as Malcom Little in 1925 to his break with the Muslims in 1964. It shows how his philosophy was shaped by his long...

Martin Luther King

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

This case traces the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King from his birth into a black middle class family in Atlanta in 1929 to his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. It shows how his family background, his mentors, and his...

Equal Employment Opportunity

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

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...

Case of Disgruntled Employee (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

Robert Morgenstern, a new and inexperienced manager of a recently created internal audit team in a federal agency, tries to salvage an unsatisfactory employee and fails, with an unexpected resulting problem for himself when he tries to ease the...

Case of Disgruntled Employee

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

Robert Morgenstern, a new and inexperienced manager of a recently created internal audit team in a federal agency, tries to salvage an unsatisfactory employee and fails, with an unexpected resulting problem for himself when he tries to ease the...