Management

Plans versus Politics: New Orleans after Katrina

Publication Date: May 31, 2007

On Tuesday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans, causing inadequate levees to collapse and flood the city in what came to be widely seen as a man-made disaster. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) calculated that...

Scale without Growth: INFONAVIT's Expansion in the Mexican Mortgage Market

Publication Date: April 24, 2007

According to a World Bank report written in 2001, "in a modern, globally integrated Mexican economy, it is hard to argue for the continued existence of an institution such as INFONAVIT." The report went on to argue that the first-best option was...

Emergency Response to a Long-Term Crisis? Médecins sans Frontières and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia

Publication Date: November 02, 2006

Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF, Doctors without Borders) is an organization that responds to humanitarian crises throughout the world with medical staff and supplies. The organization also acts as an advocate for those it serves, providing...

The St. Xavier Healing Touch Hospital

Publication Date: October 04, 2006

The case is set in a large teaching hospital. Students must analyze the actual and forecasted budgets provided for the previous year to identify the financial difficulties of the hospital. They can then solve costing and budgeting exercises...

Partnerships Victoria: The Public Sector Comparator

Publication Date: October 04, 2006

The government of the State of Victoria in Australia has been a pioneer in using the private sector to provide public infrastructure through "public-private partnerships" (PPPs). Under PPP programs the government contracts with a private company...

Going it Together: Coventry's Community Safety Partnership

Publication Date: August 09, 2006

This case looks at the adoption by the city of Coventry, UK, of a 1998 law meant to enhance collaboration among public agencies to reduce crime rates. Coventry created a Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership and hired staff to coordinate...

Hurricane Katrina: Responding to an "Ultra-Catastrophe" in New Orleans (B)

Publication Date: June 19, 2006

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting enormous damage, it initially appeared that the storm had spared low-lying New Orleans the...

Hurricane Katrina: Preparing for "The Big One" in New Orleans (A)

Publication Date: June 19, 2006

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting enormous damage, it initially appeared that the storm had spared low-lying New Orleans the...

The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board

Publication Date: February 21, 2006

This case discusses the efforts by the state of Andhra Pradesh and the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board to provide water services to its poorest inhabitants--approximately 1.7 million people. Undermining this challenge is...

When Imperatives Collide: The 2003 San Diego Firestorm (Epilogue)

Publication Date: October 31, 2005

In October 2003, a confluence in southern California of low humidity, dead vegetation, and Santa Ana winds created the conditions for a firestorm--multiple fires that burned for some two weeks, scorched hundreds of thousands of acres, destroyed...

When Imperatives Collide: The 2003 San Diego Firestorm

Publication Date: October 31, 2005

In October 2003, a confluence in southern California of low humidity, dead vegetation, and Santa Ana winds created the conditions for a firestorm--multiple fires that burned for some two weeks, scorched hundreds of thousands of acres, destroyed...

EDM (Energie du Mali)

Publication Date: September 29, 2005

In the spring of 2005, the government of Mali was negotiating major changes in the concession of Energie du Mali (EDM), the private firm that operated Mali's electricity and water services. The negotiations were being watched anxiously by the...