Strategic Planning

While discussing the cases featured in this section, students will find themselves in the shoes of top government officials as they confront difficult trade-offs. The real-world examples at play relate to a host of topics such as transportation and infrastructure, public health, and labor relations.

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

    Dealing with a Changing Environment (B)

    $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 - 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)

    $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 (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 - Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

    Getting to Dayton: Negotiating an End to the War in Bosnia

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1996

    The road to the breakthrough Dayton Peace Accords, which ushered in the prospect of a stable peace in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, is built through an intricate, high-pressure negotiation brokered by the United States and involving Serbia,...

  • Teaching Case - Mikhukhu People of South Africa: A Question of Survival

    Mikhukhu People of South Africa: A Question of Survival

    $3.95

    Publication Date: January 01, 1995

    This case focuses on an organization established to fight for the housing rights of people living in "informal settlements" in apartheid-era South Africa. In the wake of democratization, the group finds itself under increasing pressure from...

  • Teaching Case - Managing Student Aid in Sweden (Abridged)

    Managing Student Aid in Sweden (Abridged)

    $3.95

    Publication Date: March 01, 1993

    New leadership appointed in 1977 to head Sweden's National Student Aid Board faces a near-desperate situation. So inefficient is the agency in processing student applications for college living expenses that some students, strapped for cash,...