Economics

Mast Bumping in Huey and Cobra Helicopters (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

The Huey and Cobra US Army helicopters carried thousands of American soldiers during the war in Vietnam. Developed by the Bell Helicopter Company, they were, by and large, safe and reliable. But, both in combat and in peacetime use following...

Mast Bumping in Huey and Cobra Helicopters

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

The Huey and Cobra US Army helicopters carried thousands of American soldiers during the war in Vietnam. Developed by the Bell Helicopter Company, they were, by and large, safe and reliable. But, both in combat and in peacetime use following...

Taking Toshiba Public

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1986, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learned of an illegal sale of sophisticated milling machine equipment to the Soviet Union by Japanese and Norwegian companies. What became known to the public as the Toshiba case--although the...

Matters of Life and Death: Defunding Organ Transplants in the State of Arizona

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case draws on controversy triggered by a decision to direct medical care funds for the poor to mothers and young children--rather than expensive, life-saving organ transplant operations. In the wake of the death of Diana Brown, a...

Interest Withholding Tax (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In January 1982, Senator Robert Dole successfully pushed through Congress a package of budget cuts and "revenue enhancements" that included a ten percent withholding tax on interest and dividends. This case examines Dole's methods and the...

Interest Withholding Tax (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In January 1982, Senator Robert Dole successfully pushed through Congress a package of budget cuts and "revenue enhancements" that included a ten percent withholding tax on interest and dividends. This case examines Dole's methods and the...

Interest Withholding Tax (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In January 1982, Senator Robert Dole successfully pushed through Congress a package of budget cuts and "revenue enhancements" that included a ten percent withholding tax on interest and dividends. This case examines Dole's methods and the...

Pam Hyde and Ohio Mental Health: Shifting Control of Inpatient Care

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

When Pam Hyde was appointed director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health in 1983, she inherited a two-tiered state mental health system, consisting of 17 state hospitals and 53 community mental health boards. The state hospitals, which were...

Kentucky Housing Corporation and Mortgage Insurance

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

During the spring of 1987, a Kentucky Housing Corporation committee appointed by Executive Director Lynn Luallen met regularly to discuss whether the corporation should itself get into the mortgage insurance business. In the past, the...

Jerusalem Steel Corporation

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

This hypothetical case is set in the spring of 1988, in the midst of the downturn of the Reagan administration's once-booming economy. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Roger Auchincloss is preparing for a meeting with Edgar Bowser, CEO of...

Who Will Pay for Seabrook?

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In the fall of 1987, the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission faced an electric rate decision with far-reaching consequences. Ostensibly, the commission had only to decide whether to grant an emergency 15 percent rate increase to the...

US-Canada Free Trade Negotiations (I): Gaining Approval to Proceed (B: Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

In 1985, US Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter began preparing for trade talks with Canada, the largest US trading partner. The goal was an agreement that would virtually eliminate trade barriers between the two nations. But by the mid-1980s,...