Budgeting and Finance

The Consolidation of the Health Departments in Summit County, Ohio

Publication Date: July 18, 2013

In late 2008, government officials in Summit County, Ohio began to discuss the possibility of combining the county's three public health districts. These early discussions set the stage for more than two years of negotiations that eventually led...

Cutting Costs in Financial Hard Times: Two Massachusetts Towns Consider a Police Merger

Publication Date: July 18, 2013

When local governments face budget pressures, one approach is to regionalize services--that is, to seek out greater economies of scale by consolidating service delivery with other municipalities. This case describes the effort of two small...

Knowledge Management at the World Bank

Publication Date: April 05, 2011

This case traces the history and evolution of Knowledge Management at the World Bank. While primarily a financial institution offering customized loans and grants across a wide range of sectors in some 100 countries, the World Bank has...

Effective Revenue Collection in Nomburo (or not)

Publication Date: October 27, 2010

John Mwa is the newly appointed head of the Nomburan Revenue Agency (NRA), tasked by incoming President Orelio with improving revenue collections in the African nation of Nomburo. This case discusses how he goes about reaching performance...

Taiwan's High-Speed Rail: A Public-Private Partnership Hits a Speed Bump

Publication Date: October 05, 2010

This case traces the evolution of Taiwan's high-speed railroad from project inception in the late 1980s until its financial problems in 2009 describing the planning efforts, ridership projections, financial plans, and cost-benefit analysis...

The Test of Transition: The Case of the Community Preservation and Development Corporation

Publication Date: June 09, 2010

The case study presents facts pertaining to the Community Preservation and Development Corporation (CPDC), one of the best known nonprofit housing development companies in the United States, at a time of fundamental transition--a new chief...

PROTECTA Promoting Civil Society in Serbia

Publication Date: May 11, 2010

In 1997 three students joined a protest against the electoral victory of Slobodan Milosevic's Serbian Socialist Party. Upon the protests ultimate defeat, and Milosevic's return to power, the students vowed to continue the struggle for civic...

To Understand a Growing Organization: Greater Miami Neighborhoods

Publication Date: April 22, 2010

This case study explores the factors that are important in analyzing the health and soundness of a project in a growing nonprofit housing company with multiple program areas. A new loan officer at a community development financial institution...

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...

BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 19, 2009

The case sequel is both retrospective in describing BlueOrchard's development since the original case in response to a rapidly changing environment, and prospective in raising questions about BlueOrchard's future competitiveness in a perhaps...

New Delhi Water and Power

Publication Date: June 22, 2009

The New Delhi Water and Power case compares the efforts by the government of the capital territory of New Delhi to privatize its electric distribution company and reform its municipal water company. The case introduces students to problems...

Experiments in Public Procurement: Italy Buys in Bulk (Sequel)

Publication Date: September 30, 2008

Under pressure from the European Union, which had admitted Italy to the Eurozone hesitantly, on condition that the country control its deficit spending and reduce its high public debt, the central government in Italy initiated dozens of...