Leadership

The teaching cases in this section are designed to provoke critical thinking on various domestic and international leadership challenges. Students will find themselves in the shoes of leaders from many positions—whether it be in the nonprofit or public sectors—and will have to navigate the complex reality of what it means to be an effective leader.

  • Teaching Case - Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

    Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    The road to the breakthrough Dayton Peace Accords, which ushered in the prospect of a stable peace in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, is built through an intricate, high-pressure negotiation brokered by the United States and involving Serbia,...

  • Teaching Case - James Woolsey and the CIA: The Aldrich Ames Spy Case

    James Woolsey and the CIA: The Aldrich Ames Spy Case

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    When Washington attorney and longtime Capitol Hill staff member James Woolsey became director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1993, he inherited a bombshell that would soon become public. A joint CIA-FBI investigation had found that...

  • Teaching Case - Case of Zimetco

    Case of Zimetco

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1995

    This case is set in Zimbabwe and focuses on an education and training cooperative aimed at improving rural agriculture in the wake of that country's civil war in 1981. The organization becomes successful and influential under a dynamic leader...

  • Teaching Case - Tailhook: The Navy Response (Epilogue)

    Tailhook: The Navy Response (Epilogue)

    $2.45

    Publication Date: January 1, 1995

    The notorious Tailhook affair, the 1991 gathering of Navy pilots in Las Vegas which was marked by the harassment of female officers by drunken airmen, is well-known for its brazen assaults. Drunken convention-goers grabbed at women as they...

  • Teaching Case - Tailhook: The Navy Response (B)

    Tailhook: The Navy Response (B)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 1, 1995

    The notorious Tailhook affair, the 1991 gathering of Navy pilots in Las Vegas which was marked by the harassment of female officers by drunken airmen, is well-known for its brazen assaults. Drunken convention-goers grabbed at women as they...

  • Teaching Case - Tailhook: The Navy Response (A)

    Tailhook: The Navy Response (A)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 1, 1995

    The notorious Tailhook affair, the 1991 gathering of Navy pilots in Las Vegas which was marked by the harassment of female officers by drunken airmen, is well-known for its brazen assaults. Drunken convention-goers grabbed at women as they...

  • Teaching Case - Policing Northern Ireland: A Question of Balance (B)

    Policing Northern Ireland: A Question of Balance (B)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 1, 1993

    How can normal social order be kept in a country racked by political disorder? This case describes the extreme difficulties faced by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Northern Ireland as it struggles to define its role in a society divided by...