Leadership

Moving People out of Danger: Special Needs Evacuations from Gulf Coast Hurricanes (B)

Publication Date: June 22, 2012

This case examines the steps political leaders, emergency management professionals, and public health officials in Louisiana and Texas took to improve their capacity to evacuate, shelter, and repatriate individuals with special needs following...

Google.org: For-Profit Philanthropy

Publication Date: April 16, 2012

The Google.org: For-Profit Philanthropy case introduces a distinct social enterprise structure, a combination of a philanthropic division of a for-profit corporation and a nonprofit foundation. The case provides an up-to-date, in-depth...

Michelle Rhee and the Washington D.C. Public Schools

Publication Date: April 05, 2012

The case opens in 2007, when the Washington, D.C. public school system was failing. Parents, politicians, labor unions, and activists all agreed that reform was necessary due to abysmal student test scores, attendance records, and safety...

Achieving Mental Health Parity

Publication Date: July 28, 2011

In October 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law a requirement that certain private health insurance plans provide coverage for mental illness equal to coverage provided for medical-surgical illness as part of an economic stimulus...

Moving People out of Danger: Special Needs Evacuations from Gulf Coast Hurricanes (A)

Publication Date: May 19, 2011

In late summer 2005, Hurricane Katrina--the worst natural disaster in U.S. history--wreaked havoc along the Gulf Coast, causing massive loss of life and property damage. (Just a few weeks later, Hurricane Rita would inflict even more suffering...

Tennessee Responds to the 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza A Pandemic

Publication Date: May 03, 2011

The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic posed enormous challenges for state health departments across the U.S. This case focuses on the experience of Tennessee--which endured an intense resurgence of the disease in late summer and early fall 2009--and...

On the Frontlines of a Pandemic: Texas Responds to 2009 Novel H1N1 Influenza (A)

Publication Date: April 28, 2011

In the spring of 2009, cases of a previously unidentified strain of influenza began appearing in Mexico and the southwestern U.S. Within just a few months, outbreaks of 2009 Novel H1N1 (commonly referred to as Swine Flu) were so widespread that...

Knowledge Management at the World Bank

Publication Date: April 05, 2011

This case traces the history and evolution of Knowledge Management at the World Bank. While primarily a financial institution offering customized loans and grants across a wide range of sectors in some 100 countries, the World Bank has...

Inciting a Computer Revolution in Health Care: Weighing the Merits of the Health Information Technology Act

Publication Date: April 04, 2011

This case poses the question: given what was known at the time of its adoption, in February 2009, was the federal Health information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act good public policy? The HITECH Act, included in President Barack...

Inciting a Computer Revolution in Health Care: Implementing the Health Information Technology Act

Publication Date: April 04, 2011

This case poses the question: given the ambitious goals of the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and the hurdles to its successful implementation, how should incoming National Coordinator for Health...

A Tale of Two Managers (Sequel)

Publication Date: September 09, 2010

The case reviews experience of two different managers in top English soccer teams. Students must use the information provided to advise the boards of these teams about whether the two managers deserve to be sacked. Information in the first part...

A Tale of Two Managers

Publication Date: September 09, 2010

The case reviews the experience of two different managers in top English soccer teams. Students must use the information provided to advise the boards of these teams about whether the two managers deserve to be sacked. Information in the first...