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 - Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru (Sequel)

    Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru (Sequel)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1998

    When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

  • Teaching Case - Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru

    Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1998

    When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

  • Teaching Case - Dealing with a Changing Environment (B)

    Dealing with a Changing Environment (B)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    At a time, in the early 1980s, when Peru is wracked by leftist terrorism and hampered by weak central government, the Foundation for the Protection of the Environment (FPCN), founded by a group of Peru's leading biologists, becomes a vehicle...

  • Teaching Case - Dealing with a Changing Environment (A)

    Dealing with a Changing Environment (A)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    At a time, in the early 1980s, when Peru is wracked by leftist terrorism and hampered by weak central government, the Foundation for the Protection of the Environment (FPCN), founded by a group of Peru's leading biologists, becomes a vehicle...

  • Teaching Case - Regulatory Reform at OSHA (C)

    Regulatory Reform at OSHA (C)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

  • Teaching Case - Regulatory Reform at OSHA (B)

    Regulatory Reform at OSHA (B)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

  • Teaching Case - Regulatory Reform at OSHA (A)

    Regulatory Reform at OSHA (A)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

  • Teaching Case - Diversity Programs at The New England Aquarium

    Diversity Programs at The New England Aquarium

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    Like many major museums, the New England Aquarium on Boston's waterfront is under pressure to have a higher profile in the city's minority neighborhoods. Its strategies to do so include hiring of African-American and Hispanic high school...