Business and Government Relations

By emphasizing discussion of real-world examples, the case method is an ideal solution for training public leaders. The cases in our “Government” categories focus in particular on the workings and interactions of government agencies and entities at the local, national, and international level.

  • Teaching Case - The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal

    The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal

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    Publication Date: November 01, 2000

    This case provides a succinct account of the high profile failure of the Clinton Administration's initiative to reorganize the US health care and health insurance system so as to provide universal coverage at the same time as controlling costs...

  • Teaching Case - Microsoft on Trial

    Microsoft on Trial

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    Publication Date: August 01, 1999

    In July 1999, US Federal District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson had to decide whether, as alleged by the US Department of Justice, Microsoft had illegally monopolized the supply of personal computer operating systems. The trial, originally...

  • Teaching Case - Friends of the Family: Public/Private/Community Broker

    Friends of the Family: Public/Private/Community Broker

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1999

    It has become standard practice for major social service agencies to contract with non-profit organizations to deliver tax-supported services. In Maryland, however, the state Department of Human Resources went a step further. It believed in the...

  • Teaching Case - SAGASCO Holdings Limited

    SAGASCO Holdings Limited

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    Publication Date: August 01, 1998

    In the summer of 1993, Australia's Trade Practices Commission was considering whether or not to permanently enjoin Santos Limited from acquiring SAGASCO Holdings Limited. This merger was potentially of enormous significance, since Santos was the...

  • Teaching Case - Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru (Sequel)

    Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru (Sequel)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1998

    When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

  • Teaching Case - Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru

    Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1998

    When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

  • Teaching Case - Bangkok's Second Stage Expressway

    Bangkok's Second Stage Expressway

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    This transport privatization case describes the political complications that can accompany a privately-funded infrastructure project. The case tells the story of a Japanese construction firm and its relationship with the government of Thailand...

  • Teaching Case - Fannie Mae and Its Affordable Housing Mandate: (Sequel)

    Fannie Mae and Its Affordable Housing Mandate: (Sequel)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    The Federal National Mortgage Association is among the United States' most important government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). Although a private, stockholder-help corporation, "Fannie Mae" is chartered by the federal government in ways which...