Budgeting and Finance

Business Process Transformation at the CIA (Epilogue)

Publication Date: August 01, 1999

When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through a difficult period. As the unit responsible for providing its more glamorous...

Business Process Transformation at the CIA (B)

Publication Date: August 01, 1999

When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through a difficult period. As the unit responsible for providing its more glamorous...

Business Process Transformation at the CIA (A)

Publication Date: August 01, 1999

When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through a difficult period. As the unit responsible for providing its more glamorous...

The Melbourne City Link

Publication Date: June 01, 1999

The Melbourne City Link, a $2 billion privately-funded highway project, was one of the first fully electronic toll roads in the world. While the government of the State of Victoria specified this innovative tolling system in the tender for the...

Municipal Decentralization in Buenos Aires (Sequel)

Publication Date: February 01, 1999

As part of its efforts to recover from hyperinflation and an oversized public sector, the government of Argentina specifically the province of Buenos Aires seeks to control costs and improve service in local government. To do so, the provincial...

Municipal Decentralization in Buenos Aires: Creating the Municipality of Hurlingham

Publication Date: February 01, 1999

As part of its efforts to recover from hyperinflation and an oversized public sector, the government of Argentina--specifically the province of Buenos Aires--seeks to control costs and improve service in local government. To do so, the...

The Tribasa Toll Road Trust

Publication Date: December 01, 1998

This case demonstrates how the international capital markets were used to obtain financing for the expansion of limited access highways in Mexico. Structured as a Rule 144A transaction, the offering securitized the future Mexican...

Oklahoma's Milestones Reimbursement System: Paying for What You Get

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

This human services contracting case describes an innovative system launched by the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitative Services when faced with what it viewed as skyrocketing costs and ineffectual assistance for citizens with severe...

Buenos Aires-Colonia Bridge (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

This case recounts the work of a special Argentina-Uruguay bi-national commission convened to examine the economics of a proposed bridge that would link the two countries. The bridge being considered by commission officials in the spring of 1996...

A Time of Reckoning: Crisis in the Buffalo Public School System: Epilogue (Abridged)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This case tracks the long series of factors--historical, political, cultural, managerial--which culminated with the prospective bankruptcy of the Buffalo (NY) public school system, in the face of a court-ordered back pay settlement with its...

Targeted Jobs Tax Credit

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This case describes the 1994 debate over whether to extend the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit, a provision of the U.S. tax code designed to provide an incentive for employers to hire "disadvantaged" workers. It invites discussion of both the issue...

Buenos Aires-Colonia Bridge: The Project

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This case recounts the work of a special Argentina-Uruguay bi-national commission convened to examine the economics of a proposed bridge that would link the two countries. The bridge being considered by commission officials in the spring of 1996...