Classic Cases

Battle on Brimmer Street: Mental Health Siting Dispute in the State of Maine

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

The protagonists of this decision-forcing case are a non-profit housing developer and a state agency, who are working cooperatively to establish a group home for mentally handicapped adults in a residential neighborhood of Brewer, Maine. To head...

Pam Hyde and Ohio Mental Health: Shifting Control of Inpatient Care

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

When Pam Hyde was appointed director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health in 1983, she inherited a two-tiered state mental health system, consisting of 17 state hospitals and 53 community mental health boards. The state hospitals, which were...

Extending the Red Line to Arlington (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

Federal financing of state and local public works and development projects has made possible a wide array of improvements that otherwise might not have been made in US metropolitan areas. Yet these projects have left a mixed legacy in some...

Extending the Red Line to Arlington (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

Federal financing of state and local public works and development projects has made possible a wide array of improvements that otherwise might not have been made in US metropolitan areas. Yet these projects have left a mixed legacy in some...

Kentucky Housing Corporation and Mortgage Insurance

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

During the spring of 1987, a Kentucky Housing Corporation committee appointed by Executive Director Lynn Luallen met regularly to discuss whether the corporation should itself get into the mortgage insurance business. In the past, the...

Jerusalem Steel Corporation

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

This hypothetical case is set in the spring of 1988, in the midst of the downturn of the Reagan administration's once-booming economy. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Roger Auchincloss is preparing for a meeting with Edgar Bowser, CEO of...

Who Will Pay for Seabrook?

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In the fall of 1987, the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission faced an electric rate decision with far-reaching consequences. Ostensibly, the commission had only to decide whether to grant an emergency 15 percent rate increase to the...

Neighborhood Policing: The London Metropolitan Police Force

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

After 1981's fierce antipolice riots in Brixton, a heavily black and immigrant London borough, the London Metropolitan Police Force ("Scotland Yard") undertook a comprehensive re-examination of its policing practices. A new commissioner chose...

Neighborhood Policing in Los Angeles

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

For more than fifteen years the Los Angeles Police Department has made community relations and community mobilization important -- sometimes key -- elements in the way it goes about its work. This case focuses on the evolution of the LAPD away...

Mess and Maintenance at Marine Boot Camp: Epilogue

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

For the US Marine Corps and the other military services, the mid-to-late 1970s was a time of serious budgetary constraints. Anti-military sentiment was running high in the wake of the Vietnam War and President Carter had been swept into office...

Mess and Maintenance at Marine Boot Camp

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

For the US Marine Corps and the other military services, the mid-to-late 1970s was a time of serious budgetary constraints. Anti-military sentiment was running high in the wake of the Vietnam War and President Carter had been swept into office...

Air Force and Remotely Piloted Vehicles

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

This case examines US Air Force attitudes toward the development and procurement of airplanes that fly without pilots, otherwise known as remotely piloted vehicles or RPVs. Specifically, the case describes the Pave Tiger and Seek Spinner RPVs,...