The dramatic reduction in crime in New York City during the 1990s grabbed the attention of the U.S. and the world, seeming to provide evidence that new policy and management approaches could make an enormous difference for the better. This case tells the story of key management decisions that the New York Police Department itself credits with the successful attack on the city's crime rate. Specifically, it describes the approach of Police Chief William Bratton in assembling a core, reform-oriented management team and the development of a computerized crime tracking system used as the foundation for the targeting of police manpower. The epilogue raises the dramatic question of whether the goal of minimizing the misuse of force by police officers is also amenable to the measurement techniques successfully employed to the activity of criminals. This case, in addition to the questions it raises, provides a powerful telling of one of the most successful public sector management initiatives of recent times. HKS case number 1530.0.

The dramatic reduction in crime in New York City during the 1990s grabbed the attention of the U.S. and the world, seeming to provide evidence that new policy and management approaches could make an enormous difference for the better. The main case tells the story of key management decisions that the New York Police Department itself credits with the successful attack on the city's crime rate. This epilogue raises the dramatic question of whether the goal of minimizing the misuse of force by police officers is also amenable to the measurement techniques successfully employed to the activity of criminals. HKS case number 1530.1.

Shortly after his 1989 inauguration, President George Bush confronts a seemingly intractable dispute which had simmered through the 1980s: how to legislate the clean-up of the so-called "big dirties", large coal-burning Midwest power plants linked to acid rain and a decline in the vitality of lakes and forests in the Northeast. This case describes both the policy innovation which helps to break a long-standing political logjam and the process of negotiation and compromise involving the White House staff (led by White House Special Assistant for Economic and Domestic Policy Roger Porter) and key members of committees of the Congress. Specifically, the case describes how the Bush administration formed an alliance with key environmental groups (such as the Environmental Defense Fund) by embracing the concept of tradeable emission rights-the right to buy and sell permits to emit sulfur dioxide, for instance, one of the key pollutant byproducts of coal-burning. The advent of such "emissions trading", however, can only proceed once agreement is reached on the total amount of pollution reduction to be achieved by the key enabling legislation which will create the permit regime, the Clean Air Act of 1990. This case, in large part, tracks the shaping of that legislation. HKS Case Number 1514.0

This nonprofit strategic planning case tells the story of the Phoenix-based National Family Legal Foundation, an anti-pornography advocacy group which, after attaining national influence during the 1980s, finds itself, in 1995, nearly bankrupt and without a clear mission. When Charles Dunlap, a local real estate developer, agrees to join the board of directors, he unknowingly takes the first step toward a central role in deciding the fate of NFLF. With little left to work with but a skeleton staff and a small group of committed board members, Dunlap, thrust into a central role, must decide whether there is any way the organization can be effective, given its now-limited resources, or whether the time has come to close up shop.

When Ukraine becomes independent following the collapse and dissolution of the Soviet Union, the nation which is suddenly Europe's third most populous finds itself almost immediately caught up in high-stakes international diplomacy and negotiations. A significant part of the Soviet Union's former nuclear arsenal, including intercontinental ballistic missiles targeted at the United States, are housed within Ukraine. This case tells the story of the formation and evolution of a newly-independent nation's foreign policy, focusing on Kiev's dawning understanding of the dynamics of diplomatic negotiation, the power of nuclear weapons as bargaining chips, and its emerging sense of the nature of its national interest. HKS Case Number 1425.0

When Ukraine becomes independent following the collapse and dissolution of the Soviet Union, the nation which is suddenly Europe's third most populous finds itself almost immediately caught up in high-stakes international diplomacy and negotiations. A significant part of the Soviet Union's former nuclear arsenal, including intercontinental ballistic missiles targeted at the United States, are housed within Ukraine. This case tells the story of the formation and evolution of a newly-independent nation's foreign policy, focusing on Kiev's dawning understanding of the dynamics of diplomatic negotiation, the power of nuclear weapons as bargaining chips, and its emerging sense of the nature of its national interest. HKS Case Number 1425.0