Cases

Internal & External Corruption in the Philippines' Tax System (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In an effort to weed out corruption in the government, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines fired 2,000 government officials suspected of corruption, among them the commissioner of revenue, in the fall of 1975. That September, Marcos...

Internal & External Corruption in the Philippines' Tax System (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In an effort to weed out corruption in the government, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines fired 2,000 government officials suspected of corruption, among them the commissioner of revenue, in the fall of 1975. That September, Marcos...

India Milk (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In October 1964, Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri visited Amul, a village-based dairy cooperative that produced, processed, and distributed high quality dairy products. Impressed with its achievements, Shastri proposed making Amul a...

India Milk (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In October 1964, Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri visited Amul, a village-based dairy cooperative that produced, processed, and distributed high quality dairy products. Impressed with its achievements, Shastri proposed making Amul a...

Ruckelshaus and Acid Rain

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

After being publicly charged by President Reagan to meet the problem of acid rain "head-on," the new EPA administrator spent much of his first six months in office tackling the issue. This case examines the political and management strategies he...

Mayor Evan Sweeney

Publication Date: July 01, 1986

This series of hypothetical cases, written for executive training programs for new mayors, frame the quintessential problems faced by municipal chief executives. These include labor relations and negotiations with a public employees union, the...

Mary Malone

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

This disguised case is about a woman who faces a hard choice in her career and family life. Mary Malone, an associate professor at the Adams School of Government, has been offered the job of executive deputy commissioner in the Old York State...

Falklands/Malvinas: Breakdown of Negotiations (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

On April 2, 1982, Argentine forces overran the British-controlled Falklands, thus triggering a confrontation between the two nations over possession of the barren South Atlantic islands. Part A of this case presents a historical account of the...

Energy Emergency Assistance

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

When the 1979 revolt in Iran disrupted that country's oil exports, the US government responded to the reduced availability of fuel by controlling both price and allocation. Some analysts have argued that those actions exacerbated the oil crisis...

Conflicting Findings: Evaluating WIC

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

This case is designed to foster discussion concerning a question public managers often face: How should one make decisions when available studies and data appear contradictory? A 1984 General Accounting Office (GAO) review found that existing...

Smith and the Public Health Battle

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In this disguised case, Helen Smith is a newly appointed state administrator of personnel hired as part of a new governor's reform effort. Smith's task is to crack down on the practice of using outside contracts to bypass state-required job...

Competitive Bypass of Pacific Gas & Electric

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In 1986, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), a private utility company serving most of northern and central California, was facing the loss of many of its biggest and best customers. The threat came not from conservation, general economic...