Regulatory Policy

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sri Lanka Transport: The Railroad and the Port (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

In 1996, Sri Lanka had a mixed public and private bus system, with about one-third of passengers carried by public companies and two-thirds by private. The private buses were not earning enough from passenger fees to replace their buses and as a...

Sri Lanka Transport: The Bus Industry (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

In 1996, Sri Lanka had a mixed public and private bus system, with about one-third of passengers carried by public companies and two-thirds by private. The private buses were not earning enough from passenger fees to replace their buses and as a...

Regulatory Reform at OSHA (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

Regulatory Reform at OSHA (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...