Management

Whether overseeing people or projects—and often both—an effective manager must be prepared to handle complexity. Set in numerous agencies and organizations across many different sectors, the teaching cases in this section allow students to refine the essential skills of management, from organizing and problem-solving to budgeting and planning.

  • Teaching Case - A Change of Management

    A Change of Management

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    Publication Date: October 01, 2004

    This case tells the story of the establishment and growth of public television in New Jersey, focused on the rise and fall of its first executive director, Lawrence Frymire. It implicitly raises the question of why Frymire--someone with a...

  • Teaching Case - Discovery in the Amazon

    Discovery in the Amazon

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    Publication Date: June 01, 2004

    In a world of increasingly fluid boundaries, public and private managers often face ethical challenges that cross familiar geographical and cultural lines. This disguised case recounts the experience of a chemical engineer from Brazil who...

  • Teaching Case - Corporate Values and Transformation (Sequel)

    Corporate Values and Transformation (Sequel)

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    Publication Date: June 01, 2004

    This case focuses on one of the largest and most successful of such microlenders, Mexico's Compartamos ("we share") organization, and raises questions about the most effective business model and scale of microlenders. Specifically, the case...

  • Teaching Case - Oxfam America: Becoming a Global Campaigning Organization

    Oxfam America: Becoming a Global Campaigning Organization

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    Publication Date: March 25, 2004

    In 2000, Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization, launched itself on a bold new course. A small but respected agency, it had devoted itself for three decades to supporting partner organizations in developing countries...

  • Teaching Case - The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (B)

    The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (B)

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    Publication Date: March 01, 2004

    The (B) case, details the decisions which the Corporation for National and Community Service made as to how best to estimate the funding needs for the Trust. The (B) case (1740.0), however, goes on to frame political questions which develop when...

  • Teaching Case - Trapped in a Dysfunctional Family

    Trapped in a Dysfunctional Family

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    Publication Date: November 01, 2003

    This human resource/career management case focuses on a newly-promoted mid-level manager in the US Social Security Administration who finds that what he thought was good news--his appointment as director of the administrative and matching staff...

  • Teaching Case - Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

    Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

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    Publication Date: October 01, 2003

    Thirty years after its founding in 1973, New York City's Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) found itself at a crossroads. The nonprofit, church-related organization that had long-provided tenants with assistance in renovating abandoned...