Case No. 2011 – 001

Current revision: Final version 1

Author: Bastian Becker

Description:

In 1999, the newly appointed CEO of the German railway operator faced many challenges. One of them, the Berlin Central Station, was to become a landmark project not only for Germany’s capital and the railway operator but also the ambitious CEO himself.

Germany’s railway operator is set-up as an enterprise, it is, however, completely owned by the German state. New construction project, such as the Berlin Central Station, are, depending on their financial viability, partly financed by the operator and the German state. The case discusses the particular management challenges of this framework, and its advantages as well as challenges in bringing different interests together.

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Case number: 2008-006

Current revision: Revised version (updated March 12, 2009 for Google Docs)

Authors: Marcelo B., Philipp Mueller

Description/Excerpt: Anti-poverty strategies in Campinas, Brazil, where the City Hall has to decide how much resources they will invest on the Solidarity Economy Program. This program is oriented to support popular cooperatives as a way to reduce social exclusion

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Case number: 2008-005

Current revision: first version

Authors: Magdalena A., Philipp Mueller, Rachel B., Susan D.

Description/Excerpt: The efforts of MIT professors to get the Once Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program off the ground. Upon partnership with big corporations, the visionaries leave the project, which had taken a different direction.

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Case number: 2008-004

Current revision: First version (July 2008)

Authors: Marc-Antoine R., Justus L., Philipp Mueller

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Case number: 2008-003

Current revision: Revised version (March 2009)

Authors: Justus L., Philipp Mueller, Wesley R.

Description/Excerpt: “Privatization Politics” – The story of the German railroad system and steps towards privatization.

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Case number: 2008-002

Current revision: Draft July 14

Authors: Johannes S., Philipp Mueller, Ksenia M., Rebecca R.

Description/Excerpt: The Estonian-Russian cyberwar

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Case number: 2008-009

Current revision: First version

Authors: Luis M. , Philipp Mueller

Description/Excerpt: soon

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Case number: 2008-008

Current revision: First version

Authors: Peter L.

Description/Excerpt: Government-sponsored microfinance programs in Torreon, Mexico are evaluated against private sector efforts and problems of corruption.

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Case number: 2008-007

Current revision: Final draft

Authors: Susanne L., Philipp Mueller

Description/Excerpt: The director of the city of Vienna’s department responsible for public lighting has to decide whether privatizing street lighting would bring benefits to the city.

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Case number: 2008-001

Current revision: First version

Authors: Christel N.

Description/Excerpt: The mayor of the German city of Zwingenberg has to decide whether to replace an ageing ferry, which carries bike tourists and commuters across the river, with a new bridge a few kilometers outside of the city or a new ferry. Doing nothing would leave an existing bridge further away as a third option.

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