Budgeting and Finance

The cases in this section provide a student-centered approach to teaching the tools and processes of financial management. The case method allows students to apply their knowledge to real-world challenges, like closing a public utility’s budget shortfall or developing innovative models to fund social programs, from the inside out.

  • Classic Case - Meeting NYC's Asphalt Needs (B)

    Meeting NYC's Asphalt Needs (B)

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1984

    In Part A of this case, Henry Fulton, the head of New York City's Bureau of Highway Operations proposes that, as a cost saving measure, the city build and operate its own asphalt plant to produce some of the paving material needed each year to...

  • Classic Case - Meeting NYC'S Asphalt Needs (A)

    Meeting NYC'S Asphalt Needs (A)

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1984

    In Part A of this case, Henry Fulton, the head of New York City's Bureau of Highway Operations proposes that, as a cost saving measure, the city build and operate its own asphalt plant to produce some of the paving material needed each year to...

  • Classic Case - Food Stamps

    Food Stamps

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1983

    In 1982 the Reagan Administration proposed a $1.5 billion cut in the federal Food Stamp Program. The case examines the evolution of the food stamp program up to this point and then lays out the cost-cutting options available to the administrator...

  • Classic Case - Office for Civil Rights (B: Sequel)

    Office for Civil Rights (B: Sequel)

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1982

    This case examines attempts made in the late 1970s to revitalize the much-maligned Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Part A puts the student in the position of David Tatel, recently appointed director of...

  • Classic Case - Office for Civil Rights (B)

    Office for Civil Rights (B)

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1982

    This case examines attempts made in the late 1970s to revitalize the much-maligned Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Part A puts the student in the position of David Tatel, recently appointed...

  • Classic Case - Office for Civil Rights (A)

    Office for Civil Rights (A)

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1982

    This case examines attempts made in the late 1970s to revitalize the much-maligned Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Part A puts the student in the position of David Tatel, recently appointed director of...