Cases with Video Supplements

Paying to Improve Girls’ Education: India’s First Development Impact Bond

Publication Date: April 8, 2019

In 2013, Educate Girls (an Indian nonprofit working to increase the number of girls enrolled and learning in school), partnered with Instiglio, a startup specializing in financial instruments for social programs in developing countries to create...

Aung San Suu Kyi, Seizing the Moment: Soaring Hopes & Tough Constraints in Myanmar's Unfolding Democracy (Abridged)

Publication Date: October 24, 2018

This 9-page version of Seizing the Moment primarily differs from the original in omitting a 4-page section that describes the early, confusing stages of Myanmar’s democratization process. Like the original, this leadership case is set in...

Innovation at GSA: Zero Environmental Footprint and the Extreme Challenge (A)

Publication Date: March 28, 2017

In 2010, Martha Johnson, new Administrator of the General Services Agency (GSA), advanced the Zero Environmental Footprint (ZEF) initiative—a sustainability initiative to render GSA’s activities environmentally neutral, agency-wide...

'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...

"Reinventing" the Command: General Janet Wolfenbarger's Values-Based Leadership Drives Change at the United States Air Force

Publication Date: May 12, 2016

Due to proposed long-term cuts in the United States Department of Defense (DOD) budget, the DOD prioritized improving efficiencies, reducing overhead, and eliminating redundancies within its many commands. Accordingly, the Commander of Air Force...

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...

Nuclear Power & the Language of Diplomacy: Negotiating a Game-Changing Nuclear Trade Agreement with India (Sequel)

Publication Date: June 18, 2014

This sequel accompanies case number 2023.0. This decision-forcing case focuses on a diplomatic challenge faced by US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran between April and July...

Nuclear Power & the Language of Diplomacy: Negotiating a Game-Changing Nuclear Trade Agreement with India

Publication Date: June 18, 2014

This decision-forcing case focuses on a diplomatic challenge faced by US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran between April and July 2005: the writing of a 400-word joint statement...

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...