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.
Confronting Constraints: Shashi Verma & Transport for London Tackle a Tough Contract Sequel
Publication Date: December 19. 2023
This sequel accompanies HKS Case 2275.0, "Conflicting Constraints: Shashi Verma &Transport for London Tackle a Tough Contract." The case introduces Shashi Verma (MPP 97) in 2006, soon after he has received a plum appointment: Director...
Confronting Constraints: Shashi Verma & Transport for London Tackle a Tough Contract
The case introduces Shashi Verma (MPP 97) in 2006, soon after he has received a plum appointment: Director of Fares and Ticketing for London's super agency, Transport for London. The centerpiece of the agency's ticketing operation was the Oyster...
Confronting the Unequal Toll of Highway Expansion: Oni Blair, LINK Houston, & the Texas I-45 Debate (A)
Publication Date: April 6, 2023
In this political strategy case, Oni K. Blair, newly appointed executive director of a Houston nonprofit advocating for more equitable transportation resources, faces a challenge: how to persuade a Texas state agency to substantially...
Making Place for Migrants: Housing Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands
Publication Date: November 7, 2022
Mid-2015, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the Near East sought asylum in the European Union. At the spike of the influx, over 4,000 asylum seekers, most from war-torn Syria, were landing in the Netherlands each week. The Dutch...
Mexico City's Hoy No Circula: Restricting Car Travel to Abate Air Pollution (B)
Publication Date: October 6, 2022
The rapid, sprawling growth of the Mexico City megalopolis—combined with industrialization, a fast-expanding fleet of gas-fueled vehicles, and a location vulnerable to deadly thermal inversions—led to a serious air pollution crisis...
Mexico City's Hoy No Circula: Restricting Car Travel to Abate Air Pollution (A)
Confronting the Unequal Toll of Highway Expansion: Oni Blair, LINK Houston, & the Texas I-45 Debate (B)
Embracing the Uphill Struggle: Marc Morial’s Quest for Corporate Diversity
Publication Date: October 25, 2021
As incoming President and CEO of the National Urban League in 2003, Marc Morial believed that promoting racial equity in corporate America was a natural part of the organization’s remit. In the latter third of the 20th century, the NUL had...
Hearts and Minds: Admiral Jim Stavridis on the Art of Wrangling NATO
Publication Date: November 19, 2020
This leadership case package, a written case with a podcast supplement, describes the biggest challenges to confront four-star Admiral James G. Stavridis during two of his tours of duty-one as commander of U.S. Southern Command, or...
Aung San Suu Kyi, Seizing the Moment: Soaring Hopes & Tough Constraints in Myanmar's Unfolding Democracy (Abridged)
Publication Date: October 24, 2018
This 9-page version of Seizing the Moment primarily differs from the original in omitting a 4-page section that describes the early, confusing stages of Myanmar’s democratization process. Like the original, this leadership case is set in...
The Boston Public Schools' Student Assignment Process
Publication Date: August 27, 2018
The assignment of students to schools is often a controversial process that requires a delicate balance between operational needs (school capacity and costs) and student and community needs (quality of school and community cohesion). In 2016,...
Cashing Out: The Future of Cash in Israel
Publication Date: January 29, 2018
It is impossible to predict the future, but this is a task policymakers are effectively expected to do when deciding how to deploy scarce resources to the benefit of future constituents. This case therefore looks at one tool in...
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