Public Managed Care in Easternville: A Case of Opportunities

Students gain insight into the subtle and unsubtle mechanics of state health politics and how they affect managed care demonstration projects. Also familiarizes students with fee-for-service provider plans and programs for low-income consumers.

Integrated Management Curriculum Final Summary and Review PowerPoint Presentation

The final summary and review PowerPoint presentation for week 30 of the Integrated Management Curriculum.

Integrated Management Curriculum Part 1 Summary and Review PowerPoint Presentation

The Part 1 summary and review PowerPoint presentation for week 10 of the Integrated Management Curriculum.

Presentation Checklist

Thought provoking compilation of objectives and reminders for making compelling presentations to senior officers and executives. Provides a practical outline of considerations to develop students’ briefing and presentation skills.

Hurricane Katrina: A Man-Made Crisis?

Hurricane Katrina resulted in a tragic humanitarian disaster due to a decades-long combination of government action and inaction. In this sense, it was a preventable disaster.

Human Rights and Trade: The Clinton Administration and China

In the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the newly elected Clinton administration attempts to balance competing foreign policy interests in successive decisions about renewing China’s most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status.

Daycare Comes to Northville

City government seeks affordable daycare for municipal workers’ children.  This two part exercise reinforces key concepts in public budgeting through practice in applying them, and develops skills in spreadsheet use for budgeting and analysis.

Holding Teachers Responsible for Failing Schools: The Battle Over Education Reform in Central Falls, Rhode Island

The material on Central Falls is presented chiefly as a ―retrospective case‖ in which an instructor and students can review how the issue of school failure emerged in this community and state, how different actors were mobilized by it, and how the initial impasse between administration and teachers ultimately came to be resolved.

Flu Vaccine Case Study

Difficult market conditions have made flu vaccine production and distribution a perennial problem in the US.  Students are challenged to define the public interest and outline policies to secure the production and distribution of a public good.

Ellen Schall and the Department of Juvenile Justice

The case describes the situation as newly appointed commissioner walks into it her roll in Department of Juvenile Justice, including the internal tensions and significant operational problems in every division, the agency’s history of bad press and feuds with City Hall. This case illustrates strategic analysis and management’s role in change.