Cases with Video Supplements

'Fixing Our Politics', One Vote at a Time: Public Policy Graduates Aim to Boost Turnout with TurboVote

Publication Date: June 20, 2016

This case, about creating a startup with a social mission, is designed to help students think through the strategic alignment of public value, legitimacy/support, and operational capacity in a simple context. Together with an in-class video...

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: Vice Admiral John Mateczun and JTF CapMed (A) (Epilogue)

Publication Date: September 17, 2015

This case is part of a four part series that examines the merger of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Military Center at Bethesda--the most expensive, controversial and largest hospital merger in US history. The series...

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: Integrating Army and Navy Cultures at the New Walter Reed (B)

Publication Date: September 17, 2015

This case is part of a four part series that examines the merger of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Military Center at Bethesda--the most expensive, controversial and largest hospital merger in US history. The series...

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: Vice Admiral John Mateczun and JTF CapMed (A)

Publication Date: September 17, 2015

This case is part of a four part series that examines the merger of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Military Center at Bethesda--the most expensive, controversial and largest hospital merger in US history. The series...

Negotiating from the Margins: The Santa Clara Pueblo Seeks Key Ancestral Lands (Video Supplements)

Publication Date: May 22, 2014

These video supplements accompany HKS Case# 2021, "Negotiating from the Margins: The Santa Clara Pueblo Seeks Key Ancestral Lands." This negotiations case describes the approach, over time, of Santa Clara, a small Pueblo Indian tribe in New...

Negotiating from the Margins: The Santa Clara Pueblo Seeks Key Ancestral Lands (Sequel)

Publication Date: May 22, 2014

This negotiations case describes the approach, over time, of Santa Clara, a small Pueblo Indian tribe in New Mexico, to recover a piece of land tribal leaders viewed as integral to their ancestral homeland. Unlike many negotiations cases, which...

Negotiating from the Margins: The Santa Clara Pueblo Seeks Key Ancestral Lands

Publication Date: May 22, 2014

This negotiations case describes the approach, over time, of Santa Clara, a small Pueblo Indian tribe in New Mexico, to recover a piece of land tribal leaders viewed as integral to their ancestral homeland. Unlike many negotiations cases, which...

Michelle Rhee's IMPACT on the Washington D.C. Public Schools

Publication Date: August 23, 2012

The case opens in 2007, when the Washington, D.C. public school system was failing. Parents, politicians, labor unions and activists all agreed that reform was necessary due to abysmal student test scores, attendance records and safety concerns...

Michelle Rhee and the Washington D.C. Public Schools

Publication Date: April 05, 2012

The case opens in 2007, when the Washington, D.C. public school system was failing. Parents, politicians, labor unions, and activists all agreed that reform was necessary due to abysmal student test scores, attendance records, and safety...

Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator: A Model for Reducing Unemployment in South Africa

Publication Date: April 20, 2023

 In the fourth quarter of 2021, South Africa's unemployment rate rose to 35%, the highest since 2008. Though some of the job losses could be attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic, the country had already been experiencing high unemployment...

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...