Crisis Management

Crises—whether related to public health, the environment, security, or business—are often tests of an organization or agency’s leadership and management capacity. The cases in this section put students in the center of such scenarios, where careful decisions need to be made, sometimes quickly, with serious implications. Among the topics and skills covered are the forming of partnerships and coordinating across agencies, strategies for communication and decision-making, and the role of politics and policy.

  • Teaching Case - Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999

    Protecting the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999

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    Publication Date: February 06, 2009

    On one side, a loose network of protesters made arrangements for dramatizing their opposition to the WTO and international trade practices. At the same time, public safety officials from local, state, and federal agencies developed security...

  • Teaching Case - Rudy Giuliani: The Man and His Moment

    Rudy Giuliani: The Man and His Moment

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    Publication Date: May 01, 2003

    In the hours and days following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which destroyed New York's World Trade Center towers, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani distinguished himself, in the view of many, for his style of leadership. A combination...

  • Teaching Case - Korea and the Thirties (B)

    Korea and the Thirties (B)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1980

    On June 25, 1950, the US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea received an alarming call from his deputy chief, E.F. Drumright, warning him that the communists were hitting along the front. The invasion caught the Republic of Korea and its...

  • Teaching Case - Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs

    Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1998

    In April 1961, President Kennedy denied US military assistance to a force of CIA-trained Cuban exiles attacking Cuba, thus sealing the fate of the Bay of Pigs invasion. When the losses had been tallied, 114 exiles were dead, Castro was left with...