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 - Discussing Disaster: "God's Will" (B)

    Discussing Disaster: "God's Will" (B)

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    Publication Date: April 01, 1999

    This is both a crisis management communication case and a case about the relationship between civil servants and local government in a fledgling democracy. Set in Hong Kong, the case describes the confluence of events which lead to what is...

  • Teaching Case - Discussing Disaster: Picking up the Pieces (D)

    Discussing Disaster: Picking up the Pieces (D)

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    Publication Date: April 01, 1998

    This is both a crisis management communication case and a case about the relationship between civil servants and local government in a fledgling democracy. Set in Hong Kong, the case describes the confluence of events which lead to what is...

  • Teaching Case - Discussing Disaster: Apology? (C)

    Discussing Disaster: Apology? (C)

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    Publication Date: April 01, 1998

    This is both a crisis management communication case and a case about the relationship between civil servants and local government in a fledgling democracy. Set in Hong Kong, the case describes the confluence of events which lead to what is...

  • Teaching Case - Discussing Disaster (A)

    Discussing Disaster (A)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: April 01, 1998

    This is both a crisis management communication case and a case about the relationship between civil servants and local government in a fledgling democracy. Set in Hong Kong, the case describes the confluence of events which lead to what is...

  • Teaching Case - FDA, Blood Donor Policy, and the Advent of AIDS

    FDA, Blood Donor Policy, and the Advent of AIDS

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    The emergency of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s has been widely viewed, in retrospect, as having been handled poorly by those responsible for US public health measures and its blood supply. But how was it seen by those facing key decisions...

  • Teaching Case - Swine Flu Decision: An Analytic Summary

    Swine Flu Decision: An Analytic Summary

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    This case invites students to use public policy tools to consider what to do when the government faces a possible, but not certain, outbreak of "swine flu."Learning Objective:The case invites students to use benefit-cost analysis and decision...

  • Teaching Case - Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

    Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    The road to the breakthrough Dayton Peace Accords, which ushered in the prospect of a stable peace in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, is built through an intricate, high-pressure negotiation brokered by the United States and involving Serbia,...

  • Teaching Case - James Woolsey and the CIA: The Aldrich Ames Spy Case

    James Woolsey and the CIA: The Aldrich Ames Spy Case

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    When Washington attorney and longtime Capitol Hill staff member James Woolsey became director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1993, he inherited a bombshell that would soon become public. A joint CIA-FBI investigation had found that...

  • Teaching Case - Tailhook: The Navy Response (Epilogue)

    Tailhook: The Navy Response (Epilogue)

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    Publication Date: January 1, 1995

    The notorious Tailhook affair, the 1991 gathering of Navy pilots in Las Vegas which was marked by the harassment of female officers by drunken airmen, is well-known for its brazen assaults. Drunken convention-goers grabbed at women as they...