Federal

Breaking the "Circle of Poison": Senator Patrick Leahy and Pesticide Export Controls

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

What would prompt an elected official to take on what appears to be a moral cause with little immediate political benefit? That is the implicit political ethics question raised by this case, which describes the somewhat quixotic, decade-long...

Reducing the Complaints Backlog at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Publication Date: March 01, 2000

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is the agency charged with investigation of non-criminal complaints of civil rights-related violations in the U.S. workplace, including racial and gender discrimination. This case describes the...

Politics of a Covert Action: The U.S., the Mujahideen, and the Stinger Missile

Publication Date: November 09, 1999

This case tells the inside story of one of the most controversial episodes in the history of the US intelligence services. Its focus: whether to break the time-honored rules of CIA covert actions in order to supply Afghan rebels (fighting in the...

Microsoft on Trial

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...

Business Process Transformation at the CIA (Epilogue)

Publication Date: August 01, 1999

When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through a difficult period. As the unit responsible for providing its more glamorous...

Business Process Transformation at the CIA (B)

Publication Date: August 01, 1999

When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through a difficult period. As the unit responsible for providing its more glamorous...

Business Process Transformation at the CIA (A)

Publication Date: August 01, 1999

When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through a difficult period. As the unit responsible for providing its more glamorous...

Tennessee's Medicaid Revolution: TennCare

Publication Date: January 01, 1999

In 1994, Tennessee underwent a massive reconfiguration of its fee-for-service Medicaid program, replacing the old system with TennCare. These efforts were pioneered by Democratic Governor Ned McWherther, and Commissioner of Finance and...

Financing the Expansion of Missouri's Medicaid Program: 1987 - 1992

Publication Date: January 01, 1999

In 1987, Missouri was ranked fifth worst in state Medicaid programs. This case outlines the factors most critical to Missouri's medicaid reformation: federal mandates that expanded coverage, particularly to poor women and children; a...

Loyalty First

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

An Air Force engineer heads a team evaluating proposals from two engine manufacturers vying for a contract to build a new fighter aircraft. The engineer's project manager appears to have a casual attitude to Air Force regulations on dealings...

A Distant Command (B)

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

A Coast Guard Liaison Officer is stationed on an American protectorate in the South Pacific. His assignment is to coordinate and enforce federal marine safety, and administer a grant for a local boating safety program. Upon arriving, he learns...

A Distant Command (A)

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

A Coast Guard Liaison Officer is stationed on an American protectorate in the South Pacific. His assignment is to coordinate and enforce federal marine safety, and administer a grant for a local boating safety program. Upon arriving, he learns...