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 - Managing Student Aid in Sweden (Abridged)

    Managing Student Aid in Sweden (Abridged)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: March 01, 1993

    New leadership appointed in 1977 to head Sweden's National Student Aid Board faces a near-desperate situation. So inefficient is the agency in processing student applications for college living expenses that some students, strapped for cash,...

  • Teaching Case - August Coup (B)

    August Coup (B)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1992

    This is a blow-by-blow account, painstakingly assembled from objective sources on the public record, of the dramatic effort of Soviet conservatives to seize power in August 1991, through the means of a coup d'etat. On one level, the case...

  • Teaching Case - August Coup (A)

    August Coup (A)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1992

    This is a blow-by-blow account, painstakingly assembled from objective sources on the public record, of the dramatic effort of Soviet conservatives to seize power in August 1991, through the means of a coup d'etat. On one level, the case...

  • Teaching Case - Civil War Shoulder Arms (B Sequel)

    Civil War Shoulder Arms (B Sequel)

    $2.45

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union army faced the task of supplying the growing numbers of Union conscripts with shoulder arms. Existing government stockpiles were inadequate, and the chief of ordnance was forced to consider the...

  • Teaching Case - Civil War Shoulder Arms (B)

    Civil War Shoulder Arms (B)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union army faced the task of supplying the growing numbers of Union conscripts with shoulder arms. Existing government stockpiles were inadequate, and the chief of ordnance was forced to consider the...

  • Teaching Case - Civil War Shoulder Arms (A)

    Civil War Shoulder Arms (A)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1987

    At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union army faced the task of supplying the growing numbers of Union conscripts with shoulder arms. Existing government stockpiles were inadequate, and the chief of ordnance was forced to consider the...

  • Teaching Case - Korea and the Thirties (B)

    Korea and the Thirties (B)

    $3.95

    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 - Korea and the Thirties (A)

    Korea and the Thirties (A)

    $3.95

    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

    $3.95

    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...