Management

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...

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...

Note on the EPA Under Administrator Anne Gorsuch

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...

Surviving at the EPA: Bill Hedeman

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...

Surviving at the EPA: David Tundermann

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...

Surviving at the EPA: Gary Dietrich

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...

Surviving at the EPA: Mike Cook

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...

Surviving at the EPA: Mike Walsh

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...

Bromides for Public Managers

Publication Date: January 01, 1984

This note is an essay on the unique problems and possibilities of public management. The author outlines the differences between managing in the public and private sectors and details the particular constraints public managers face. The essay...

Managing the Employment and Training Administration: Note on the Job Corps

Publication Date: January 01, 1983

This case examines the efforts of Albert Angrisani, the Reagan administration's choice to run the Department of Labor's Employment and Training administration, to reform the Job Corps program. It contrasts the view that Angrisani's proposals...

Savitz and the DOE (Abridged)

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...

Savitz and the DOE (Sequel)

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...