Diversity

Plans versus Politics: New Orleans after Katrina (Sequel)

Publication Date: May 31, 2007

This sequel accompanies the main case (1862.0). On Tuesday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans, causing inadequate levees to collapse and flood the city in what came to be widely seen as a man-made disaster. The Federal...

Plans versus Politics: New Orleans after Katrina

Publication Date: May 31, 2007

On Tuesday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans, causing inadequate levees to collapse and flood the city in what came to be widely seen as a man-made disaster. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) calculated that...

Beyond Cooperation: Gender, Activism, and Self-Help in Maharashtra (Epilogue)

Publication Date: September 19, 2005

In February, 2004, the general manager of the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank failed to show up for work several days in a row. His absence followed a meeting of the full staff of the bank with the chair of the board, Chetna Sinha, in which...

Beyond Cooperation: Gender, Activism, and Self-Help in Maharashtra

Publication Date: September 19, 2005

In February 2004, the general manager of the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank failed to show up for work several days in a row. His absence followed a meeting of the full staff of the bank with the chair of the board, Chetna Sinha, in which...

Discovery in the Amazon

Publication Date: June 01, 2004

In a world of increasingly fluid boundaries, public and private managers often face ethical challenges that cross familiar geographical and cultural lines. This disguised case recounts the experience of a chemical engineer from Brazil who...

Crossing the River: An Economic Development and Diversity Initiative in Southwestern Michigan (Part B)

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

The twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan, have long been known for manufacturing, particularly Whirlpool Corp., and racial tension. Prominent accounts--including journalist Alex Kotlowitz's "The Other Side of the River"--account...

Crossing the River: An Economic Development and Diversity Initiative in Southwestern Michigan (Part A)

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

The twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan, have long been known for manufacturing, particularly Whirlpool Corp., and racial tension. Prominent accounts--including journalist Alex Kotlowitz's "The Other Side of the River"--account...

Women's Thrift Cooperatives in Andhra Pradesh

Publication Date: July 01, 2002

After more than 10 years of operation, the Women's Thrift Cooperatives (WTCs) in the impoverished Karimnagar and Warangal districts of Andhra Pradesh are an established part of the lives of their women members. As such they represent...

The Constitutional Right to Housing in South Africa: The Government of the Republic of South Africa vs. Irene Grootboom (Sequel)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

This is an 8-page sequel to HKS Case 1627.0. The 1996 "post-apartheid" constitution of South Africa enumerates a variety of specific rights, among them a guarantee of access to housing and a right to shelter for children. Yet many millions of...

The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (A)

Publication Date: September 01, 2000

When a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers in the famous, videotaped beating of a Black motorist stopped for speeding, the decision sparked shock, outrage and, in short order, riot in the city's African-American South Central section...

The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (C)

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

When a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers in the famous, videotaped beating of a black motorist stopped for speeding, the decision sparked shock, outrage and, in short order, riot in the city's African-American South Central section...

The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (B)

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

When a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers in the famous, videotaped beating of a black motorist stopped for speeding, the decision sparked shock, outrage and, in short order, riot in the city's African-American South Central section...