Classic Cases

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  • Classic Case - Goals For Dallas (C): The Program

    Goals For Dallas (C): The Program

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    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...

  • Classic Case - Note on the EPA Under Administrator Anne Gorsuch

    Note on the EPA Under Administrator Anne Gorsuch

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    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...

  • Classic Case - Regulating Airport Noise

    Regulating Airport Noise

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    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...

  • Classic Case - Bailing Out Boston: The Tregor Legislation (Sequel)

    Bailing Out Boston: The Tregor Legislation (Sequel)

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    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...

  • Classic Case - Bailing Out Boston: The Tregor Legislation

    Bailing Out Boston: The Tregor Legislation

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    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...

  • Classic Case - Registry of Motor Vehicles:  Watertown Branch

    Registry of Motor Vehicles: Watertown Branch

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    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...

  • Classic Case - Meeting NYC's Asphalt Needs (B)

    Meeting NYC's Asphalt Needs (B)

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    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...

  • Classic Case - Wage and Price Controls (A): The Debate in 1980

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

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    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...

  • Classic Case - Savitz and the DOE (Abridged)

    Savitz and the DOE (Abridged)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1983

    When Joseph Tribble, a political appointee, assumed his position as an Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy, he soon found himself in conflict with his Deputy Assistant Secretary, Maxine Savitz. A highly respected career civil servant...

  • Classic Case - Savitz and the DOE (Sequel)

    Savitz and the DOE (Sequel)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1983

    When Joseph Tribble, a political appointee, assumed his position as an Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy, he soon found himself in conflict with his Deputy Assistant Secretary, Maxine Savitz. A highly respected career civil servant...

  • Classic Case - Savitz and the DOE

    Savitz and the DOE

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1983

    When Joseph Tribble, a political appointee, assumed his position as an Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy, he soon found himself in conflict with his Deputy Assistant Secretary, Maxine Savitz. A highly respected career civil servant...