Cases

Taking on Big Tobacco: David Kessler and the FDA (Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

Food and Drug Commissioner David Kessler's landmark 1996 decision to propose regulation of tobacco as a drug marked him as one of the most prominent appointees in the first Clinton Administration -- one both revered and reviled. Kessler's...

Elks Clubs, Settlement Houses, Labor Unions and the Anti-Saloon League: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century America Copes with Change

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The mid- to late 19th century saw dramatic changes in American society, with the coming of industrialization and immigration. A relatively rural, culturally homogeneous society was swamped by economic and social upheaval. And yet the nation was...

Case of Missing Shoe-Import Option: 1977 Footwear Import Decision

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This description by Washington Post columnist David Broder, chosen to be paired with The 1976 Footwear Import Decision case, describes the decision-making process of the Carter Administration as related to the same issue described in the...

Low Emission Vehicles: the Pursuit of a Regional Program (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This pair of cases tells the story of how a group of Northeastern states, U.S. carmakers, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency struggled over how to implement a landmark federal clean air mandate: the introduction of low and...

Low Emission Vehicles (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This pair of cases tells the story of how a group of Northeastern states, U.S. carmakers, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency struggled over how to implement a landmark federal clean air mandate: the introduction of low and...

Bre-X: The Battle for Busang (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This case tells the incredible story of what may be viewed as one of the century's most infamous stock scams: the rise and collapse of the Canadian mining firm Bre-X, based on doctored reports of a gold strike in Indonesia said to have been...

Bre-X: The Battle for Busang (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This case tells the incredible story of what may be viewed as one of the century's most infamous stock scams: the rise and collapse of the Canadian mining firm Bre-X, based on doctored reports of a gold strike in Indonesia said to have been...

Targeted Jobs Tax Credit

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This case describes the 1994 debate over whether to extend the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit, a provision of the U.S. tax code designed to provide an incentive for employers to hire "disadvantaged" workers. It invites discussion of both the issue...

Protecting Pension Benefits: PBGC Meets General Motors (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

In this case, the federal entity responsible for both safeguarding and insuring the private pension systems of the United States (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation) must deal with one of the nation's largest and arguably most troubled...

Cracking the Culture Code: the way into the Inner Circle

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This short, incident-based case is set in South Africa and focused on a predominantly white corporation's newly-hired black affirmative action officer. When Lehurutshe Ngutshane receives an invitation to attend a prestigious golf tournament, he...

1976 Footwear Import Decision

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This case about decision-making at the Presidential level focuses on a question before the Ford Administration in early 1976: whether to provide some sort of relief for the beleaguered U.S. footwear (shoe) industry, then buffeted by increasingly...

The US Navy and Puerto Rican Politics (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

US military needs for a base site from which to detect Latin American and Caribbean drug smuggling leads the Navy to seek to build an advanced radar tracking station in a rural location in Puerto Rico. But what the military views as a...