State And Local

Kansas City and the Ad Hoc Group Against Crime

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A long-established community anti-crime group in Kansas City, spawned by concern over alleged police indifference to the black community, finds police allies in its efforts to shut down "crack houses." But can the Ad Hoc Group Against Crime...

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...

Who Will Get Custody of Santabear?

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

When the decreasingly-profitable Dayton-Hudson Corporation, one of Minnesota's most prominent retailers and largest firms, becomes the target of takeover offers, its appears to have little hope of warding off a hostile suitor. In desperation, it...

A Problem at the Housing Authority (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The executive director of a housing authority in a southwestern state uncovers evidence of collusion between the board of directors and a local realty corporation. After apparent attempts by the board president at bribery and intimidation, the...

A Problem at the Housing Authority

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The executive director of a housing authority in a southwestern state uncovers evidence of collusion between the board of directors and a local realty corporation. After apparent attempts by the board president at bribery and intimidation, the...

Fighting Fear in Baltimore County

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The police have always taken fighting fear to be part of their job, but they have always assumed that fear reduction was an inevitable by-product of traditional crime-control techniques like patrol and rapid response to 911 calls. Early in the...

Language and the Melting Pot: Florida's 1988 "Official English" Referendum (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This is a case which might inspire discussion both about political strategy and the relation of marginalized cultural groups to the mainstream. It tells the story of a 1988 attempt via referendum to declare English to be the official language of...

Language and the Melting Pot: Florida's 1988 "Official English" Referendum

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This is a case which might inspire discussion both about political strategy and the relation of marginalized cultural groups to the mainstream. It tells the story of a 1988 attempt via referendum to declare English to be the official language of...

Changing a Hospital's Culture: The Guest Relations Program at Medical College of Virginia Hospitals

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A major teaching hospital in inner-city Richmond seeks to retain its tradition as a public research hospital serving all in need, at the same time it attracts new, fully-insured patients. As a first step, a new top administrator decides to...

Cocaine Mothers

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Early in 1989, prosecutors in Florida charged a woman with child abuse after she gave birth to her second baby born with signs of cocaine dependency. This case briefly summarizes the problem of cocaine use, the effects of prenatal exposure, and...

Battle of the Alamodome: Henry Cisneros and the San Antonio Stadium (Economic Analysis Version)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Economic Analysis Version of case HKS Case Number 896.0. Major government-funded public works projects are often touted both for the needs they will fulfill and the jobs they will provide. This case examines the assumptions underlying San...