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.

  • Classic Case - Office for Civil Rights (B: Sequel)

    Office for Civil Rights (B: Sequel)

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1982

    This case examines attempts made in the late 1970s to revitalize the much-maligned Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Part A puts the student in the...

  • Classic Case - Office for Civil Rights (B)

    Office for Civil Rights (B)

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1982

    This case examines attempts made in the late 1970s to revitalize the much-maligned Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Part A puts the student in the...

  • Classic Case - Office for Civil Rights (A)

    Office for Civil Rights (A)

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1982

    This case examines attempts made in the late 1970s to revitalize the much-maligned Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Part A puts the student in the...

  • Teaching Case - Sexual Harassment in the Office (Sequel)

    Sexual Harassment in the Office (Sequel)

    $2.45

    Publication Date: January 01, 1982

    On a Friday afternoon, Tina Wallinsky, a secretary in a Technical Information Unit of a federal agency, asked to speak privately with the unit director, Dan Newcomb. In a state of some...

  • Teaching Case - Sexual Harassment in the Office

    Sexual Harassment in the Office

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1982

    On a Friday afternoon, Tina Wallinsky, a secretary in a Technical Information Unit of a federal agency, asked to speak privately with the unit director, Dan Newcomb. In a state of some...

  • Classic Case - Age Discrimination

    Age Discrimination

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1981

    In this disguised case, Nick Werden, a 59-year-old scientist and former division head at the Kennedy Space Exploration and Research Administration, brings an age discrimination suit against...

  • Classic Case - Mary Anderson and the Women's Bureau

    Mary Anderson and the Women's Bureau

    Free

    Publication Date: January 01, 1981

    In 1887 sixteen-year-old Mary Anderson and her sister left their native Sweden in search of better economic opportunities in the United States. This search led Anderson into the growing...