Implementation

A Letter to Professor Dutch Leonard

Publication Date: November 01, 2003

This letter to a Kennedy School faculty member from a former student is a plea for advice about one of the most difficult dilemmas faced by public employees in a bureaucratic chain of command: what to do when one thinks a new boss is moving an...

When Prevention Can Kill: Epilogue

Publication Date: August 01, 2003

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September, 2001, the United States began to take seriously threats which had, heretofore, been generally discounted. Among these was the possibility of...

When Prevention Can Kill: Minnesota and the Smallpox Vaccine Program

Publication Date: August 01, 2003

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September, 2001, the United States began to take seriously threats which had, heretofore, been generally discounted. Among these was the possibility of...

The Challenge of Multi-Agency Collaboration: Launching a Large-Scale Youth Development Project in Hartford

Publication Date: November 05, 2002

The idea that better "collaboration" among public and private service providers improves the effectiveness of social service programs for the poor is virtually uncontested in social service circles--yet many efforts at collaboration founder...

The Challenge of Multi-Agency Collaboration: Launching a Large-Scale Youth Development Project in Hartford (Sequel)

Publication Date: November 05, 2002

The idea that better "collaboration" among public and private service providers improves the effectiveness of social service programs for the poor is virtually uncontested in social service circles--yet many efforts at collaboration founder...

Disaster By Design: California's Experience with Electricity Restructure: The Storm Hits (B)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The power shortages and blackouts of late 2000 and early 2001 drew international attention to the electricity deregulation regime adopted four years earlier by the state of California. This case provides a definitive account of the nature of...

Disaster By Design: California's Experience with Electricity Restructure: The Origins (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

The power shortages and blackouts of late 2000 and early 2001 drew international attention to the electricity deregulation regime adopted four years earlier by the state of California. This case provides a definitive account of the nature of...

The Lump Sum Grant Initiative for Hong Kong Social Services

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

Notwithstanding its reputation as a free market bastion, Hong Kong has long been home to a well-developed, government-supported "social sector." Although many non-governmental social service organizations began as purely private and charitable,...

Implementing Education Reform in India: The Primary School Textbook Debate and Resistance to Change in Kerala

Publication Date: August 01, 2000

As the 1998-99 school year began in the state of Kerala, India, state education officials were setting out to bring radical change to government schools. A new approach designed to be child-friendly and to de-emphasize rote learning and...

The Melbourne City Link

Publication Date: June 01, 1999

The Melbourne City Link, a $2 billion privately-funded highway project, was one of the first fully electronic toll roads in the world. While the government of the State of Victoria specified this innovative tolling system in the tender for the...

"Firm Guidance": Changing Hong Kong's "Medium of Instruction"

Publication Date: March 01, 1999

Long-building concern about the quality of Hong Kong public education culminates in March, 1996 with the decision of the territory's Education Commission to push its 400-plus secondary schools toward replacing English with Cantonese as the basic...

Municipal Decentralization in Buenos Aires (Sequel)

Publication Date: February 01, 1999

As part of its efforts to recover from hyperinflation and an oversized public sector, the government of Argentina specifically the province of Buenos Aires seeks to control costs and improve service in local government. To do so, the provincial...