Classic Cases

Crisis in College Hill: Sandra Freedman and Police/Community Relations in Tampa, FL (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 1, 1990

When a riot sparked by a police killing erupts near the College Hill Homes public housing project in her city, Tampa, Florida, Mayor Sandra Freedman must find a way to end the racially charged looting and violence, as well as respond to charges...

Crisis in College Hill: Sandra Freedman and Police/Community Relations in Tampa, FL

Publication Date: January 1, 1990

When a riot sparked by a police killing erupts near the College Hill Homes public housing project in her city, Tampa, Florida, Mayor Sandra Freedman must find a way to end the racially charged looting and violence, as well as respond to charges...

A Problem at the Housing Authority (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The executive director of a housing authority in a southwestern state uncovers evidence of collusion between the board of directors and a local realty corporation. After apparent attempts by the board president at bribery and intimidation, the...

A Problem at the Housing Authority

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The executive director of a housing authority in a southwestern state uncovers evidence of collusion between the board of directors and a local realty corporation. After apparent attempts by the board president at bribery and intimidation, the...

Arciniega's War in the Upper Huallaga Valley

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case supplements the geopolitical framework of Coca and the Shining Path in the Upper Huallaga Valley (C16-90-1020.0) by examining the strategy of a specific military officer charged with ending Marxist guerrilla domination of Peru's chief...

Fighting Fear in Baltimore County

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The police have always taken fighting fear to be part of their job, but they have always assumed that fear reduction was an inevitable by-product of traditional crime-control techniques like patrol and rapid response to 911 calls. Early in the...

Education of David Hoffman: Economic Development and the Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

When a long-time organizational consultant finds himself to be the man in charge of a major Alaska state agency, he must confront the limits of rapid organizational change and the need to delegate responsibility. Among his decisions in this...

Education of David Hoffman: Economic Development and the Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

When a long-time organizational consultant finds himself to be the man in charge of a major Alaska state agency, he must confront the limits of rapid organizational change and the need to delegate responsibility. Among his decisions in this...

Taking the Helm: Richard Cheney at the Department of Defense

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

Wyoming Congressman Richard Cheney had long been a faithful supporter of Pentagon spending and new weapons systems. But when, in the wake of the failed nomination of Texas Senator John Tower, Cheney almost overnight finds himself appointed...

Integration Incentives in Suburban Cleveland

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

Should an Ohio state agency provide low-interest loans to home buyers moving into areas in which they are "racially under-represented," even if they are whites in affluent suburbs moving into neighborhoods which might otherwise "tip" to become...

Wastewater Wars: Sequel

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

In 1974, the small city of Arcata, California, learned that a new state policy would soon forbid the release of its treated wastewater into Humboldt Bay unless it could prove that the wastewater "enhanced" the bay. That same year the Humboldt...

Wastewater Wars

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

In 1974, the small city of Arcata, California, learned that a new state policy would soon forbid the release of its treated wastewater into Humboldt Bay unless it could prove that the wastewater "enhanced" the bay. That same year the Humboldt...