Leadership

Zero-Tolerance in Memphis (B)

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

School superintendent Gerry House arrives in Memphis in 1992 with an aggressive, reform agenda. Convinced that the predominantly African-American system had focused too heavily on discipline at the expense of learning, House conceives a "school...

Zero-Tolerance in Memphis (A)

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

School superintendent Gerry House arrives in Memphis in 1992 with an aggressive, reform agenda. Convinced that the predominantly African-American system had focused too heavily on discipline at the expense of learning, House conceives a "school...

Pushing the Boundaries: Redistricting the Kentwood Schools

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

The issue of racial integration in public schools has typically taken the form of controversies about busing across neighborhood lines in big cities, or proposed cross-boundary desegregation involving cities and their surrounding suburbs. The...

Deciding Who Decides: The Debate Over a Gay Photo Exhibit in a Madison School (C)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

When teachers at a Madison, Wisconsin elementary school announce plans to mount a photo exhibit featuring families with gay or lesbian parents, school system superintendent Cheryl Wilhoyte faces a vexing decision. She knows well that the exhibit...

Deciding Who Decides: The Debate Over a Gay Photo Exhibit in a Madison School (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

When teachers at a Madison, Wisconsin elementary school announce plans to mount a photo exhibit featuring families with gay or lesbian parents, school system superintendent Cheryl Wilhoyte faces a vexing decision. She knows well that the exhibit...

Deciding Who Decides: The Debate Over a Gay Photo Exhibit in a Madison School (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

When teachers at a Madison, Wisconsin elementary school announce plans to mount a photo exhibit featuring families with gay or lesbian parents, school system superintendent Cheryl Wilhoyte faces a vexing decision. She knows well that the exhibit...

The General and the "War" on Drugs: Barry McCaffrey and the Office of National Drug Control Policy

Publication Date: June 01, 1998

When General Barry McCaffrey, a decorated war hero, agrees to take command of the U.S. office of National Drug Control Policy, he encounters an office in such disarray that some in Congress doubt whether it should continue to exist. He boasts...

Going Against the Grain: A "Conservative" Think Tank in Massachusetts

Publication Date: June 01, 1998

When a retired Massachusetts oil company executive decided, in the mid-1980s, to establish a free market-oriented public policy think tank, he faced daunting obstacles. Massachusetts had historically been one of the nation's most politically...

Discussing Disaster: Picking up the Pieces (D)

Publication Date: April 01, 1998

This is both a crisis management communication case and a case about the relationship between civil servants and local government in a fledgling democracy. Set in Hong Kong, the case describes the confluence of events which lead to what is...

Discussing Disaster: Apology? (C)

Publication Date: April 01, 1998

This is both a crisis management communication case and a case about the relationship between civil servants and local government in a fledgling democracy. Set in Hong Kong, the case describes the confluence of events which lead to what is...

Discussing Disaster (A)

Publication Date: April 01, 1998

This is both a crisis management communication case and a case about the relationship between civil servants and local government in a fledgling democracy. Set in Hong Kong, the case describes the confluence of events which lead to what is...

Capitalization: The Politics of Privatization in Bolivia

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

In this case, the president of Bolivia and a team of officials grapple with questions of how to set up a model for privatizing a number of state-owned enterprises. In the 1980s, Bolivia, like most other Latin American countries, embraced a more...