Leadership

Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a force whose many duties involve regulation of the city's sprawling open-air markets...

Mayor Evan Sweeney's Budget Cutbacks

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 looks at...

President Salinas' "Untouchables": Fighting Corruption in Mexico

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case explores the issue of widespread and persistent corruption, and the ways in which it so often complicates economic and political development strategies. It recounts the events of the anti-corruption campaign waged during the first two...

Mayor Evan Sweeney's Budget Cutbacks (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This 4-page sequel to HKS Case 1068.0 is part of a series of hypothetical sketches about quintessential municipal leadership problems facing fictional "Mayor Evan Sweeney." This case looks at tradeoffs and strategic options available to the...

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...