City of Austin Electric Power and Light System and the South Texas Nuclear Project

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

The City of Austin's public power authority has invested in the South Texas Nuclear Project in anticipation of growth in electricity demand. The nuclear project has fallen on hard times and city officials must decide whether to default on...

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...

Meeting NYC'S Asphalt Needs (A)

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...

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

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...

The Legal Services Corporation Under the Reagan Administration: The Reagan Board (B) (Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

In 1981, the Reagan administration proposed the elimination of the federally-funded Legal Services Corporation (LSC), sparking an intense and ideologically bitter fight in Congress between pro- and anti-LSC forces. Part A gives a brief history...

Governor's Affirmative Action Program

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

This hypothetical case outlines the efforts of state government officials to fulfill their new governor's pledge to implement an aggressive affirmative action hiring campaign. The case briefly reviews the statistics on minority representation in...

Bromides for Public Managers

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

This note is an essay on the unique problems and possibilities of public management. The author outlines the differences between managing in the public and private sectors and details the particular constraints public managers face. The essay...

Managing the Employment and Training Administration: Note on the Job Corps

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

This case examines the efforts of Albert Angrisani, the Reagan administration's choice to run the Department of Labor's Employment and Training administration, to reform the Job Corps program. It contrasts the view that Angrisani's proposals...

Prohibition: Supplement

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing the manufacture or sale of alcohol, became law. Its enactment was the product of a vigorous lobbying effort, using methods strikingly similar to those currently...

Prohibition (B): Repeal

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing the manufacture or sale of alcohol, became law. Its enactment was the product of a vigorous lobbying effort, using methods strikingly similar to those currently...