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The teaching cases in this section are designed to provoke critical thinking on various domestic and international leadership challenges. Students will find themselves in the shoes of leaders from many positions—whether it be in the nonprofit or public sectors—and will have to navigate the complex reality of what it means to be an effective ...
Harvard Kennedy School Case Program is the world's largest producer and repository of case studies designed to train public leaders.
The video also features powerful footage illustrating Rhee’s leadership style. Learning Objective: The case discusses the steps Rhee took to reform the D.C. public schools and the support and opposition she encountered along the way, culminating with her November 2010 resignation.
The case is designed to facilitate a live, in-class discussion of the role of personal, core values in achieving and maintaining leadership. The learning objective is to understand the essence of values-based leadership in the service of others, along with the personal sacrifice, patience, persistence, and openness to change that is required.
The case allows students to explore how the General’s values and principles were shaped by her life experiences and how they guided her leadership of the AFMC. Students evaluate the General’s AFMC reorganization and consider how their own decisions may have differed, based upon an analysis of their own values and principles.
This practitioner guide accompanies HKS Case 2255.0. An epilogue, HKS Case 2255.1, follows this case. For sixteen years, longer than any mayor in the city’s history, Mayor Joseph Curtatone has led his hometown of Somerville,...
Crises—whether related to public health, the environment, security, or business—are often tests of an organization or agency’s leadership and management capacity. The cases in this section put students in the center of such scenarios, where careful decisions need to be made, sometimes quickly, with serious implications.
Publication Date: October 8, 2024 The case traces the actions by the city of Belgrade (Serbia) to replace a waste landfill that was an environmental disaster with both an Energy from Waste (EfW) plant, a new landfill, and a methane-driven district heating facility.
Video Case: Embracing the Uphill Struggle: Marc Morial's Quest for Corporate Diversity Length: 25 pages Learning Objective: Designed for a class in leadership, the case allows students to consider how personal influences, the opportunities and constraints of a given historical moment, and a set of leadership skills and approaches combine—in this case, to create an advocacy strategy for ...
This case traces the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King from his birth into a black middle class family in Atlanta in 1929 to his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. It shows how his family background, his mentors, and his education in theology and philosophy helped shape King's dream for black equality through non-violence.