Leadership

Mast Bumping in Huey and Cobra Helicopters (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

The Huey and Cobra US Army helicopters carried thousands of American soldiers during the war in Vietnam. Developed by the Bell Helicopter Company, they were, by and large, safe and reliable...

Mast Bumping in Huey and Cobra Helicopters

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

The Huey and Cobra US Army helicopters carried thousands of American soldiers during the war in Vietnam. Developed by the Bell Helicopter Company, they were, by and large, safe and reliable...

Managing Environmental Risk: The Case of Asarco (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In July 1983, EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus issued proposed regulations to control arsenic emissions from copper smelting and glass manufacturing plants. At the same time, he...

Managing Environmental Risk: The Case of Asarco

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In July 1983, EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus issued proposed regulations to control arsenic emissions from copper smelting and glass manufacturing plants. At the same time, he...

Taking Toshiba Public

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1986, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learned of an illegal sale of sophisticated milling machine equipment to the Soviet Union by Japanese and Norwegian companies. What became...

The Saga of Vera Katz

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In November 1984, Representative Vera Katz decided to run for the position of speaker of the house of the Oregon Legislature. If elected, she stood to become the first female speaker in...

Mayor Evan Sweeney and the Police

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

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...

Finding Black Parents: One Church, One Child (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1980, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services faced a crisis. Over 700 black children in Cook County, including 69 infants, waited for adoption while the agency was unable...

Presidents as Sovereigns

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This excerpt from Richard Neustadt's lecture "Presidents, Politics and Analysis" is written in the style of the Neustadt and May's "Thinking in Time" cases, with their emphasis on the use of...

Jean Ekins and the Family Learning Center (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

During the 1978-79 school year, the state of Michigan turned down Jean Ekins' application for model-site designation of her Leslie, Michigan Family Learning Center. Ekins had started the...

Jean Ekins and the Family Learning Center (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

During the 1978-79 school year, the state of Michigan turned down Jean Ekins' application for model-site designation of her Leslie, Michigan Family Learning Center. Ekins had started the...

Starting from Scratch: Alice Rivlin and the Congressional Budget Office (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

When Alice Rivlin became the first director of the Congressional Budget Office in February 1975, she found herself in charge of a new agency with no staff, no permanent offices, a very...