Innovations

Managing Student Aid in Sweden

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

New leadership appointed in 1977 to head Sweden's National Student Aid Board faces a near-desperate situation. So inefficient is the agency in processing student applications for college living expenses that some students, strapped for cash,...

Privatizing Park Maintenance in Buenos Aires (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When a new democratic government takes office in Argentina, the administration of Buenos Aires moves to end inefficiency and overstaffing in its public works department by privatizing maintenance of parks. The initiative enjoys early success...

Privatizing Park Maintenance in Buenos Aires

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

When a new democratic government takes office in Argentina, the administration of Buenos Aires moves to end inefficiency and overstaffing in its public works department by privatizing maintenance of parks. The initiative enjoys early success...

Igniting the Passions: Private vs. Public Fire Service in Suburban Phoenix

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

Unlike most metropolitan areas in the United States, Phoenix, Arizona, and its suburbs present a striking contrast in the means of delivering one of the most basic services for which government is responsible: fire protection. Many of the city's...

Groundwater Regulation in Arizona

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, increasing demands for water threatened to lead to a crisis in Arizona. The growth of the desert state's cities posed a conflict with its agricultural and mining interests. Its main source of water--groundwater...

Spreading the Gospel: The Origin and Growth of the DARE Program (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

A program originated in Los Angeles to bring police officers, preaching an anti-drug message, to public school classrooms, not only seems to show promise but spreads quickly across the US. Is the idea itself so good that others simply rush to...

XPORT: A Public Sector Trading Company (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case takes its place in the ongoing debate over privatization: which functions are best performed by the public sector, which should be reserved to private enterprise? In this instance, a newly-appointed executive director of the Port...

XPORT: A Public Sector Trading Company

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case takes its place in the ongoing debate over privatization: which functions are best performed by the public sector, which should be reserved to private enterprise? In this instance, a newly-appointed executive director of the Port...

Building the Baltic

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

When the destruction or conversion of single-room occupancy hotels, or SROs, in San Diego's downtown seemed to lead to an increase in homelessness, a private real estate developer argued that he could build profitable new SROs if the city would...

CALS: Linking the Government and its Vendors

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

This case follows the early stages of the development of a Department of Defense computer infrastructure for the receiving and storing of engineering drawings for weapons systems. Prior to the effort to develop the Computer-Aided Acquisition and...

Civil War Shoulder Arms (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union army faced the task of supplying the growing numbers of Union conscripts with shoulder arms. Existing government stockpiles were inadequate, and the chief of ordnance was forced to consider the...

Civil War Shoulder Arms (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union army faced the task of supplying the growing numbers of Union conscripts with shoulder arms. Existing government stockpiles were inadequate, and the chief of ordnance was forced to consider the...