Economics

Innovation Clusters in the Global Economy: The Welfare Technology Region in Denmark

Publication Date: November 07, 2012

In February 2012, Lars Kolind, chairman of Welfare Tech Region, a cluster organization in Southern Denmark that promotes the use of technology to assist people with daily living activities, considered the challenges that the cluster...

Gainesville Regional Utilities' Feed-in Tariff (Epilogue)

Publication Date: August 01, 2012

Inspired by the experiences in Germany and Spain, Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) developed a pilot feed-in tariff to stimulate investment into solar photovoltaic systems. This case explores the factors behind the decision to promulgate a...

Gainesville Regional Utilities' Feed-in Tariff

Publication Date: August 01, 2012

Inspired by the experiences in Germany and Spain, Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) developed a pilot feed-in tariff to stimulate investment into solar photovoltaic systems. This case explores the factors behind the decision to promulgate a...

Regulating Broadband in Chile: The Debate Over Open Access

Publication Date: January 09, 2012

In 2011, Chile's Undersecretary of Telecommunications, Jorge Atton, was considering adopting a different policy toward regulating competition in Internet services than previously applied to voice telephony. Atton headed Chile's...

TransMilenio: The Battle Over Avenida Séptima

Publication Date: May 10, 2011

In August of 2007, the mayor of Bogotá, Luis Eduardo Garzón, had to decide whether to proceed with plans to build a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line in Avenida Séptima, one of the most important transportation corridors in the...

California High-Speed Rail

Publication Date: November 18, 2010

In January 2010, the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) was waiting to hear whether the Obama Administration would approve its application for $4.7 billion in federal stimulus funding to begin the construction of a $50-billion,...

Effective Revenue Collection in Nomburo (or not)

Publication Date: October 27, 2010

John Mwa is the newly appointed head of the Nomburan Revenue Agency (NRA), tasked by incoming President Orelio with improving revenue collections in the African nation of Nomburo. This case discusses how he goes about reaching performance...

Akbank: It's a Young Country (B)

Publication Date: January 27, 2010

This case looks at the provision of financial services both when a banking system is weak and inefficient and when it is liquid, solvent, and highly competitive, seen through the lens of Akbank's adaptation to the evolution of Turkey's banking...

Akbank: A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste (A)

Publication Date: January 27, 2010

This case looks at the provision of financial services both when a banking system is weak and inefficient and when it is liquid, solvent, and highly competitive, seen through the lens of Akbank's adaptation to the evolution of Turkey's banking...

BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 19, 2009

The case sequel is both retrospective in describing BlueOrchard's development since the original case in response to a rapidly changing environment, and prospective in raising questions about BlueOrchard's future competitiveness in a perhaps...

The Maple Lane Driveway Paving Project

Publication Date: March 13, 2009

This brief case narrative tells the story of how a few people managed to wring consensus from over 40 of their neighbors on repaving a shared driveway.  While there was general agreement that the driveway, which ran behind their buildings,...

"Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (Sequel)

Publication Date: October 15, 2008

This sequel case accompanies "Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (A & B). On January 11, 2006, residents of New Orleans's Broadmoor neighborhood, which still bore the deep scars...