Program Evaluation

Corporate Values and Transformation (Sequel)

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...

Corporate Values and Transformation: The Microlender Compartamos

Publication Date: June 01, 2004

Microlending, defined as very small loans advanced to very low-income entrepreneurs, has attracted wide attention as a potentially effective means to aid the economic development of impoverished nations. This case focuses on one of the largest...

Career Caravan

Publication Date: May 01, 2003

In the summer of 2000, Bob Embry, the President of the Abell Foundation, asked two consultants to evaluate the performance Career Caravan, a job-to-work transportation program that his foundation was helping to fund. Career Caravan took...

Winning Hearts and Minds: Reforming the Providence School District (B)

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In August, 2002, Melody Johnson, the deputy superintendent of the Providence, Rhode Island School District, was hastily appointed acting superintendent in the wake of the resignation of her predecessor and close colleague Diana Lam. Lam and...

Winning Hearts and Minds: Reforming the Providence School District (A)

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In August 2002, Melody Johnson, the deputy superintendent of the Providence, Rhode Island School District, was hastily appointed acting superintendent in the wake of the resignation of her predecessor and close colleague Diana Lam. Lam and...

DART's Suburban Service

Publication Date: March 01, 2003

In the spring of 2000, planners at Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), the regional public transit agency serving the Dallas metropolitan area, had to decide whether to cancel or modify a poorly performing bus route serving the suburban cities of...

Standards for Child Sponsorship Agencies: Part B

Publication Date: October 01, 2002

In the spring of 1998, nonprofit agencies known as “child-sponsorship” organizations found themselves on the defensive. The agencies —dedicated to raising charitable funds in the United States to support children and their communities in poor,...

Standards for Child Sponsorship Agencies: Part A

Publication Date: October 01, 2002

In the spring of 1998, nonprofit agencies known as child-sponsorship organizations found themselves on the defensive. The agencies dedicated to raising charitable funds in the United States to support children and their communities in poor,...

Women's Thrift Cooperatives in Andhra Pradesh

Publication Date: July 01, 2002

After more than 10 years of operation, the Women's Thrift Cooperatives (WTCs) in the impoverished Karimnagar and Warangal districts of Andhra Pradesh are an established part of the lives of their women members. As such they represent...

Mayor Anthony Williams and Performance Management in Washington, DC

Publication Date: February 01, 2002

When Anthony Williams is elected mayor of Washington, DC in November 1998, he inherits a city that had been close to insolvency. Although its financial picture has improved, it has historically lacked the equipment and systems to deliver...

The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal (Sequel)

Publication Date: November 01, 2000

This case provides a succinct account of the high profile failure of the Clinton Administration's initiative to reorganize the US health care and health insurance system so as to provide universal coverage at the same time as controlling costs...

The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal

Publication Date: November 01, 2000

This case provides a succinct account of the high profile failure of the Clinton Administration's initiative to reorganize the US health care and health insurance system so as to provide universal coverage at the same time as controlling costs...