Federal

Hurricane Katrina: Preparing for "The Big One" in New Orleans (A)

Publication Date: June 19, 2006

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting enormous damage, it initially appeared that the storm had spared low-lying New Orleans the...

The Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus and the City of Mosul, Iraq

Publication Date: April 10, 2006

This case (1834.0 and related epilogue 1834.1 and abridged case 1834.3) tells the story of Major General David Petraeus and the US Army's 101st Airborne Division in the months following the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the fall of Baghdad, and...

Extreme Hiring Makeover, Part B: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Publication Date: January 01, 2006

In July 2004, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) volunteered to be one of three federal agencies taking part in a one-year pilot project to reform federal hiring practices. The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service...

Extreme Hiring Makeover, Part A: Tackling the Federal Employment Crisis

Publication Date: January 01, 2006

In the early 21st century, the US federal government faced a hiring crisis, as nearly half its workforce approached retirement age. Hiring procedures were time consuming, confusing to the applicant, and frustrating to managers who felt their new...

To What End? Re-thinking Terrorist Attack Exercises in San Jose (Sequel, part 2)

Publication Date: November 03, 2005

This case study tells the story of San Jose, California, one of the first 27 cities in the country to participate in a federal domestic preparedness program. Between 1997 and 1999, a specially created city task force mounted several full-scale...

To What End? Re-thinking Terrorist Attack Exercises in San Jose (Sequel, part 1)

Publication Date: November 03, 2005

This case study tells the story of San Jose, California, one of the first 27 cities in the country to participate in a federal domestic preparedness program. Between 1997 and 1999, a specially created city task force mounted several full-scale...

To What End? Re-thinking Terrorist Attack Exercises in San Jose

Publication Date: November 03, 2005

This case study tells the story of San Jose, California, one of the first 27 cities in the country to participate in a federal domestic preparedness program. Between 1997 and 1999, a specially created city task force mounted several full-scale...

When Imperatives Collide: The 2003 San Diego Firestorm

Publication Date: October 31, 2005

In October 2003, a confluence in southern California of low humidity, dead vegetation, and Santa Ana winds created the conditions for a firestorm--multiple fires that burned for some two weeks, scorched hundreds of thousands of acres, destroyed...

The Defense Minister's Decision

Publication Date: August 04, 2005

An elected but corrupt populist President, who is completing his second term, has suggested that he will remain in office by whatever means necessary. Large segments of the public in the capital city take to the streets to demand that the...

Should the Constitution be Amended?

Publication Date: August 04, 2005

Senator Juan Santos must cast a decisive vote for or against amending the fledgling Constitution to allow the popular and successful incumbent president a second six year term. Aware of the public's and his constituents' strong support of an...

The White House Carves the Turkey

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

When a deputy director for environmental protection in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff of the US Army learns that a project on which he'd worked for 14 months was about to be scrapped by the White House, he compares his fate to that...

Confrontation in Utah

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

When the new supervisor of the Manti-La Sal National Forest in San Juan County, Utah receives a letter from the local county commission demanding that she direct the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to remove a significant number of elk from...