Classic Cases

Walking a Fine Line: Qualifications and Equal Opportunity in the Charlotte Fire Department

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, the fire department in Charlotte, North Carolina, successfully integrated women firefighters into the formerly all-male department. To do so, the city deftly adjusted testing procedures so that neither male...

Building the "Super 7" Expressway in Connecticut (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 1, 1991

This case tracks the efforts of the Connecticut Department of Transportation to gain the necessary environmental approvals to build a major new highway. The long, drawn-out process has attracted an array of community and environmental opponents...

Building the "Super 7" Expressway in Connecticut

Publication Date: January 1, 1991

This case tracks the efforts of the Connecticut Department of Transportation to gain the necessary environmental approvals to build a major new highway. The long, drawn-out process has attracted an array of community and environmental opponents...

Court Reporting in Kentucky (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When a shortage of court reporters threatens to delay trials and back up the appeals process, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts considers new technology as a solution to its problem. Video "transcripts" of court proceedings hold the...

Court Reporting in Kentucky (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When a shortage of court reporters threatens to delay trials and back up the appeals process, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts considers new technology as a solution to its problem. Video "transcripts" of court proceedings hold the...

Court Reporting in Kentucky (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When a shortage of court reporters threatens to delay trials and back up the appeals process, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts considers new technology as a solution to its problem. Video "transcripts" of court proceedings hold the...

Court Reporting in Kentucky (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When a shortage of court reporters threatens to delay trials and back up the appeals process, Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts considers new technology as a solution to its problem. Video "transcripts" of court proceedings hold the...

Implementing Budget Reform in the Boston School Department

Publication Date: January 1, 1991

A new budget director appointed to oversee the fiscal operations of the Boston public school system must cope with a pressing crisis: the refusal of the mayor and city council to provide further funds to finance the school department's rapidly...

Problems of Success: Evaluating JICA's Coastal Aquaculture Development Project in Thailand

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

Five years after the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) established a seabass aquaculture in a poor, rural part of coastal Thailand, the project appears, on many counts, to be a success. An evaluation of the project by JICA itself...

Three Cases about Sexual Harassment

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

These three cases, sold together as one set, can stand alone or be used in a single class discussion. They raise different issues regarding diversity in the workplace. They are written about the experience of women but can elicit conversation...

St. Louis County Police Department

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case examines a specific technological innovation and tracks its effect on the procedures of an organization. The Computer Assisted Report Entry (CARE) system adopted by the St. Louis County Police Department is designed to replace what is...

Buying Time: The Dollar-a-Day Program

Publication Date: January 1, 1990

The Dollar-a-Day program created by Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood takes a novel approach to the problem of repeat pregnancies among the city's low-income teenagers: it pays girls a dollar for every day they do not get pregnant. Other than...