Cases

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...

The US Navy and Puerto Rican Politics

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...

FDA, Blood Donor Policy, and the Advent of AIDS

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The emergency of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s has been widely viewed, in retrospect, as having been handled poorly by those responsible for US public health measures and its blood supply. But how was it seen by those facing key decisions...

Bangkok's Second Stage Expressway

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This transport privatization case describes the political complications that can accompany a privately-funded infrastructure project. The case tells the story of a Japanese construction firm and its relationship with the government of Thailand...

Buenos Aires-Colonia Bridge: The Project

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This case recounts the work of a special Argentina-Uruguay bi-national commission convened to examine the economics of a proposed bridge that would link the two countries. The bridge being considered by commission officials in the spring of 1996...

ABC and Food Lion: A Case Study

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The rise of highly-rated nonfiction television programs has sparked concern about the techniques which television producers use to gather images and information. This press ethics case focuses on a particularly controversial technique: the...