State And Local

Wireless Philadelphia (Sequel)

Publication Date: December 20, 2005

This case tells the story of the decision by the city government of Philadelphia to develop a publicly-owned competitor to private high-speed internet connection systems ("broadband"). The case describes both the city's rationale, its desire to...

Wireless Philadelphia

Publication Date: December 20, 2005

This case tells the story of the decision by the city government of Philadelphia to develop a publicly-owned competitor to private high-speed internet connection systems ("broadband"). The case describes both the city's rationale, its desire to...

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 KIDSNET Story (Sequel)

Publication Date: September 27, 2005

This sequel accompanies the case 1800.0. In January, 1997, the Rhode Island Department of Public Health inaugurated KIDSNET, an effort to harness the power of information technology to ensure that all children in the state received proper...

The KIDSNET Story: Can a Medical-Information System Improve Public Health?

Publication Date: September 27, 2005

In January 1997, the Rhode Island Department of Public Health inaugurated KIDSNET, an effort to harness the power of information technology to ensure that all children in the state received proper preventive care. The medical informatics system...

Upwardly Global: Building a Model for Assisting Immigrant Professionals

Publication Date: September 19, 2005

This social entrepreneurship case focuses on the start-up and first four years of Upwardly Global, a San Francisco-based nonprofit founded to help place immigrant professionals in jobs commensurate with their levels of skill and education...

Security Planning for the 2004 Democratic National Convention (Epilogue)

Publication Date: September 12, 2005

When the city of Boston applied to host the Democratic Party presidential nominating convention of July 2004, it did so in the belief that the event would bring the city both prestige and economic benefit. But by the time the convention was to...

Security Planning for the 2004 Democratic National Convention (B)

Publication Date: September 12, 2005

When the city of Boston applied to host the Democratic Party presidential nominating convention of July 2004, it did so in the belief that the event would bring the city both prestige and economic benefit. But by the time the convention was to...

Security Planning for the 2004 Democratic National Convention (A)

Publication Date: September 12, 2005

When the city of Boston applied to host the Democratic Party presidential nominating convention of July 2004, it did so in the belief that the event would bring the city both prestige and economic benefit. But by the time the convention was to...