Management

Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a force whose many duties involve regulation of the city's sprawling open-air markets...

Fighting Crime in Downtown Oakland: A Public-Private Partnership

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When crime threatens to undermine revitalization efforts in downtown Oakland, California, local corporate leaders and merchants propose a seemingly simple idea to a fiscally strapped city government. Their proposal: that additional municipal...

Walking a Fine Line: Qualifications and Equal Opportunity in the Charlotte Fire Department

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, the fire department in Charlotte, North Carolina, successfully integrated women firefighters into the formerly all-male department. To do so, the city deftly adjusted testing procedures so that neither male...

Mayor Evan Sweeney: Grievances in the Public Works Department

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

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 by municipal chief executives. This case concerns labor...

Three Cases about Sexual Harassment

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

These three cases, sold together as one set, can stand alone or be used in a single class discussion. They raise different issues regarding diversity in the workplace. They are written about the experience of women but can elicit conversation...

Baptism of Fire (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A newly-minted Ph.D.'s course on the economics of international trade becomes embroiled in student controversy when an aggressive male student appears to be challenging the inexperienced female professor--who, in turn, is strongly urged by four...

Baptism of Fire (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A newly-minted Ph.D.'s course on the economics of international trade becomes embroiled in student controversy when an aggressive male student appears to be challenging the inexperienced female professor--who, in turn, is strongly urged by four...

Baptism of Fire: Epilogue

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A newly-minted Ph.D.'s course on the economics of international trade becomes embroiled in student controversy when an aggressive male student appears to be challenging the inexperienced female professor--who, in turn, is strongly urged by four...

Baptism of Fire (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A newly-minted Ph.D.'s course on the economics of international trade becomes embroiled in student controversy when an aggressive male student appears to be challenging the inexperienced female professor--who, in turn, is strongly urged by four...

Contracting for Management and Technical Services: Bringing Key Functions Back in House at the Naval Sea Systems (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

These cases explore the other side of the privatization debate: Can latitude in "contracting out" for services go too far? When one of the navy's major procurement agencies comes under pressure for its use of consultants, it must assess not only...

Contracting for Management and Technical Services: Who's Been Running the Naval Sea Systems Command? (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

These cases explore the other side of the privatization debate: Can latitude in "contracting out" for services go too far? When one of the navy's major procurement agencies comes under pressure for its use of consultants, it must assess not only...

General Electric and the National Broadcasting Company: A Clash of Cultures

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

On June 9, 1986, General Electric Co. acquired the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for $6.8 billion, setting a record for the largest non-oil merger in US history. GE wanted RCA for its defense-related businesses and for its solid domestic...