Management

Mothers Out Front

Publication Date: August 12, 2021

It was April 17, 2020, the night before the vote, and Kelsey Wirth, co-founder and board chair of Mothers Out Front, a non-profit climate justice organization, wondered if its Massachusetts chapter had garnered sufficient support from its...

No Trust in Miracles: Leading Through a Water Crisis in Cape Town

Publication Date: June 25, 2021

After several years of scarce rain, Cape Town started to prepare for a potentially unprecedented drought at the beginning of the 2017 rainy season. When the season did not deliver the necessary rains, the extreme drought became a one in...

Maryam Hassan

Publication Date: March 8, 2021

Maryam and Sameer, brother and sister, were searching for an apartment in Hitech City, Hyderabad. Recent college graduates who were now starting jobs with high-profile technology firms, they wanted to lease an apartment together. The case...

Priya Iman

Publication Date: March 8, 2021

Priya, a graduate student of public policy, was offered internships from two units within the International Development Fund. One offered a good salary, took advantage of her past work experience but was longer than she wanted; the other,...

Angel Torres Sequel

Publication Date: March 8, 2021

The Angel case was developed from accounts by students and managers about challenges and opportunities in early career employment opportunities for students in technology and engineering jobs, particularly those from less privileged and...

Angel Torres

Publication Date: March 8, 2021

The Angel case was developed from accounts by students and managers about challenges and opportunities in early career employment opportunities for students in technology and engineering jobs, particularly those from less privileged and...

Wir Schaffen Das: Angela Merkel and Germany’s Response to the Refugee Crisis in Europe

Publication Date: November 16, 2020

On August 24, 2015, Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, and Francois Hollande, president of France, met in Berlin to discuss solutions to what had become known as the European refugee crisis. The vast influx of refugees was the result of...

The Massport Model: Integrating Diversity and Inclusion into Public-Private Partnerships

Publication Date: March 3, 2019

On May 22, 2018, executives from the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), along with Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, gathered in the Seaport District of South Boston for a groundbreaking ceremony to...

Mothers of Rotterdam: Scaling a Social Services Program in the Netherlands

Publication Date: June 7, 2018

Board Chair Nanne Boonstra was about to learn the details of a scaling strategy proposal for Mothers of Rotterdam, a fledgling social service program that helped the city’s disadvantaged pregnant women.Boonstra’s employer, a venture...

Values-Based Leadership Across Difference: The Life and Legacy of Nelson Mandela

Publication Date: September 19, 2017

On December 10, 2013 more than 90,000 South Africans gathered at the FNB Stadium in Soweto outside of Johannesburg to mourn the death of the country’s first black president, Nelson Mandela. At the stadium, several dignitaries addressed the...

Building a Community Organizing Organization: Serbia on the Move

Publication Date: August 23, 2017

In Serbia, citizens are reluctant to become politically active but young leaders Babović and Stojicic, the case protagonists, are determined to prod their peers into taking a stronger role in the country’s government. Using community...

Innovation at GSA: Zero Environmental Footprint and the Extreme Challenge (A)

Publication Date: March 28, 2017

In 2010, Martha Johnson, new Administrator of the General Services Agency (GSA), advanced the Zero Environmental Footprint (ZEF) initiative—a sustainability initiative to render GSA’s activities environmentally neutral, agency-wide...