Cases with Teaching Plans

Equal Employment Opportunity (Sequel)

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...

The Community Reinvestment Act (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

In 1977, Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act requiring financial institutions to meet the credit needs of the communities in which they were located, including those low-income...

The Community Reinvestment Act

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

In 1977, Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act requiring financial institutions to meet the credit needs of the communities in which they were located, including those low-income...

CIA to 1961

Publication Date: January 1, 1980

This case traces the organizational history of the Central Intelligence Agency from its establishment after World War II to its role in the Bay of Pigs invasion. It outlines key factors that...

Ethical Problems in Public Careers: Lying

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

This case consists of ten "minicases"--some fictitious and some drawn from actual events--that involve instances of deception in public affairs. Students are asked, via an answer sheet at...

Korea and the Thirties (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

On June 25, 1950, the US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea received an alarming call from his deputy chief, E.F. Drumright, warning him that the communists were hitting along the front...

Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

In April 1961, President Kennedy denied US military assistance to a force of CIA-trained Cuban exiles attacking Cuba, thus sealing the fate of the Bay of Pigs invasion. When the losses had...

MBTA: Agenda Setting (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1979

This series of cases on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, the mass transit agency serving the Boston metropolitan area, examines the management of an urban service delivery agency...

MBTA: Labor Relations (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1979

This series of cases on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, the mass transit agency serving the Boston metropolitan area, examines the management of an urban service delivery agency...

Note on the MBTA

Publication Date: January 01, 1979

This series of cases on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, the mass transit agency serving the Boston metropolitan area, examines the management of an urban service delivery agency...

MBTA: Rail Equipment Budgeting (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1979

This series of cases on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, the mass transit agency serving the Boston metropolitan area, examines the management of an urban service delivery agency...

The Coming of the Cold War

Publication Date: January 01, 1976

In February 1947, the Truman administration received a pair of urgent requests: to replace Britain as the supporter of the Greek government, which was beleaguered by Soviet-backed leftist...