Controlling Acid Rain, 1986

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

This case is designed to support a discussion of how to apply an economic evaluation of the appropriate level of control of an externality to a real problem with incomplete information of uncertain quality and high political stakes. It sketches...

Goals For Dallas (C): The Program

Publication Date: January 01, 1985

This series of cases focuses on three related phenomena: "Goals for Dallas," a program that engaged a cross-section of Dallas leadership in assessing the state of the city and establishing goals for the community; Erik Jonsson, a founder and...

Managing the Boston Housing Authority: The Receivership Begins

Publication Date: January 01, 1985

In 1980, Lewis Spence was named receiver of the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), the fourth largest public housing authority in the US. After over five years of litigation in a class action suit brought by tenants, Massachusetts Superior Court...

Overcoming Police Corruption in Hong Kong (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1985

This two-part case outlines the efforts of the Hong Kong government in the past fifteen years to reduce the widespread corruption within its ranks, particularly in the police force. Part A begins with background information on police corruption...

Note on the EPA Under Administrator Anne Gorsuch

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In February 1981, newly inaugurated President Ronald Reagan nominated Anne Gorsuch to become administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her charter was to bring the Reagan Revolution to environmental policymaking. To the career...

Regulating Airport Noise

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

Government agencies have responded to complaints about airport noise in rather traditional ways, primarily by mandating noise standards for jet aircraft. This case describes the problem of airport noise as of 1980, delineates the ways airplanes...

Bailing Out Boston: The Tregor Legislation (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In November 1980, voters in Massachusetts overwhelmingly approved a tax limitation referendum called Proposition 2 l/2, which restricted the property tax levy for each Massachusetts city and town to 2 l/2 percent of the fair market value of all...

Bailing Out Boston: The Tregor Legislation

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In November 1980, voters in Massachusetts overwhelmingly approved a tax limitation referendum called Proposition 2 1/2, which restricted the property tax levy for each Massachusetts city and town to 2 1/2 percent of the fair market value of all...

Registry of Motor Vehicles: Watertown Branch

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

As the agency responsible for licensing and certifying motor vehicles and their operators, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles serves over five million people a year -- 3.5 million on a person-to-person basis -- bringing the state in...

Meeting NYC's Asphalt Needs (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In Part A of this case, Henry Fulton, the head of New York City's Bureau of Highway Operations proposes that, as a cost saving measure, the city build and operate its own asphalt plant to produce some of the paving material needed each year to...

Managing NATO's Nuclear Business: The December 1979 Decision (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

This case chronicles the series of events that led the United States and its NATO allies to decide, in December 1979, to deploy new nuclear missiles in Western Europe that were capable of striking the Soviet Union. Part A provides background on...

Wage and Price Controls (A): The Debate in 1980

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

When inflation reached 18 percent in 1980, a groundswell of public opinion clamored for mandatory wage and price controls. President Carter steadfastly refused, citing consensus among government leaders and economists that America's previous...