Leadership

Mayor Evan Sweeney: Grievances in the Public Works Department

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case is one of a series of hypothetical cases about fictional "Mayor Evan Sweeney," written for executive training programs for new mayors, that frame the quintessential problems faced by municipal chief executives. This case concerns labor...

Burning Down the House: The Sherwin-Williams Warehouse Fire of 1987 (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case tells the dramatic story of the most spectacular fire to strike Dayton, Ohio in many years--and the decision of the city's fire chief not to put it out. This is a decision-forcing case which asks readers to consider the dilemma of...

Burning Down the House: The Sherwin-Williams Warehouse Fire of 1987

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case tells the dramatic story of the most spectacular fire to strike Dayton, Ohio in many years--and the decision of the city's fire chief not to put it out. This is a decision-forcing case which asks readers to consider the dilemma of...

Discussions of Leadership: The Administration of Juan Manuel Rivera

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This is a public management case set in the Puerto Rican Department of Labor. Rivera, as the new secretary of labor, decides to depart from the traditional aloofness of high officials, mingling with lower-level employees, and eating in the...

A Change of Heart: Abortion and the Missouri General Assembly (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The landmark 1989 "Webster v. Reproductive Health Services" Supreme Court decision, affirming the right of individual states to regulate abortion, galvanized debate across the US. No less so in Missouri, where the legislature had originally...

A Change of Heart: Abortion and the Missouri General Assembly

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The landmark 1989 "Webster v. Reproductive Health Services" Supreme Court decision, affirming the right of individual states to regulate abortion, galvanized debate across the US. No less so in Missouri, where the legislature had originally...

Baptism of Fire (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A newly-minted Ph.D.'s course on the economics of international trade becomes embroiled in student controversy when an aggressive male student appears to be challenging the inexperienced female professor--who, in turn, is strongly urged by four...

Baptism of Fire (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A newly-minted Ph.D.'s course on the economics of international trade becomes embroiled in student controversy when an aggressive male student appears to be challenging the inexperienced female professor--who, in turn, is strongly urged by four...

Baptism of Fire: Epilogue

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A newly-minted Ph.D.'s course on the economics of international trade becomes embroiled in student controversy when an aggressive male student appears to be challenging the inexperienced female professor--who, in turn, is strongly urged by four...

Baptism of Fire (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A newly-minted Ph.D.'s course on the economics of international trade becomes embroiled in student controversy when an aggressive male student appears to be challenging the inexperienced female professor--who, in turn, is strongly urged by four...

Taking the Helm: Richard Cheney at the Department of Defense

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

Wyoming Congressman Richard Cheney had long been a faithful supporter of Pentagon spending and new weapons systems. But when, in the wake of the failed nomination of Texas Senator John Tower, Cheney almost overnight finds himself appointed...

Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Charleston, South Carolina: The Politics of Preservation (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

A New South mayor's vision of economic development brings him into pitched conflict with preservation groups convinced that a hotel project threatens the integrity of Charleston, South Carolina's famed downtown historic district. Mayor Joseph...