Cases with Video Supplements

Buying Property in a Hot Market: NYC Creates a Fund to Keep Affordable Housing Developers in Play

Publication Date: November 03, 2009

This three-part case study (along with a video supplement) presents the initial problem, the thinking, the politics, and the design negotiations that produced New York City's NYC Acquisition Fund in August 2006. The case concludes with a...

The Challenge of Adapting to Climate Change: King County Brings Local Action to a Global Threat

Publication Date: June 16, 2009

This case combines text and video to explore the local and national leadership role of King County Executive Ron Sims, in Washington State, as he made climate change mitigation and—even more pathbreaking—“adaptation” a...

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...

Fare Deal: Pricing Public Transit in New York

Publication Date: June 01, 1999

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority must decide whether to offer new fare options to the five million riders who use New York City's subway and bus system each day. The subway had operated with a "one-ride, one-price, any time of day"...