Publications

May 1981 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Reagan Plan, The

By: George C. Lodge

Contains President Reagan's address to Congress in February of 1981 in which he proposes $49 billion in budget cuts and tax reductions. Also contains David Stockman's "economic Dunkirk" memorandum of November 1980. Exhibits contain economic data. Purpose is to provide... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Economy; Government and Politics; Budgets and Budgeting; United States

March 1981 (Revised October 1984)
Case

Corning Glass Works: Indonesia

By: Michael Y. Yoshino

Evaluates the market opportunities and risks by Corning and International Finance Corporation in Indonesia. View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Financial Services Industry; Indonesia

June 1980 (Revised September 1980)
Background Note

Some Criteria for Evaluating Your Work on the Process Engineering Proposal

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

1980
Other Unpublished Work

Condominium Conversion in Massachusetts: An Evaluation of its Benefits and Costs

By: Dutch Leonard, J.F. Kain and K.E. Case

Keywords: Housing; Cost vs Benefits; Massachusetts

December 1979
Article

Evaluating and Comparing Projects: Simple Detection of False Alarms

By: John S. Hammond and John W. Pratt

Keywords: Performance Evaluation

01 Sep 1979
Conference Presentation

Insecurity Begets Negativity: A Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Behavior; Emotions; Prejudice and Bias

April 1979
Article

Communication Patterns, Project Performance, and Task Characteristics: An Empirical Evaluation and Integration in an R&D Setting

By: Ralph Katz and Michael Tushman

Keywords: Communication; Projects; Performance; Information; Integration; Research and Development

March 1979 (Revised December 1982)
Case

Allied Chemical Corp. (B)

By: George C. Lodge and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Describes Allied's cooperative approach to government relations and the approach of some of the regulatory agencies Allied deals with. Based mainly on quotes from Allied and government officials. Asks the student to evaluate Allied's government relations--in general... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Cooperation; Chemical Industry

1979
Article

Approximating the Efficiency Gain of Tax Reforms

By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski

Proper analysis of tax reform requires evaluation of the welfare effects induced by a change from one tax system to another. We present two methods for estimating these changes using only local information pertaining to an initial equilibrium with distortive taxes. It... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Change; Analysis

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February 1979
Article

Effects of External Evaluation on Artistic Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile

Examined the conditions under which the imposition of an extrinsic constraint upon performance of an activity can lead to decrements in creativity. 95 female undergraduates worked on an art activity either with or without the expectation of external evaluation. In... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Social Psychology; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment

December 1978 (Revised March 1992)
Case

Archdiocese of New York

By: Stephen A. Greyser and John A. Quelch

A print media campaign to improve attitudes toward the Catholic priesthood and to indirectly increase vocations is evaluated through a comparison of pretest and post-test data. View Details

Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Measurement and Metrics; Media; Public Opinion; Valuation; Media and Broadcasting Industry; New York (state, US)

Article

The Perilous Journey of Nutrition Evaluation

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Nutrition

15 Nov 1978
Conference Presentation

Evaluation Research Priorities for Federal Nutrition Programs

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Research; Nutrition; Programs

1 Apr 1978
Conference Presentation

Effects of Evaluation Expectation on Artistic Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Creativity

1978
Chapter

Evaluation of the Present System of Mining Taxation

By: Malcolm Gillis, Louis T. Wells and Brian Wright

Keywords: Mining; Taxation; Performance Evaluation; Mining Industry

Article

A Performance Management System: Research, Design, Introduction and Evaluation

By: Michael Beer, Robert Ruh, Jack A. Dawson, B.B. McCaa and Michael J. Kavanagh

1977
Working Paper

Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance

By: Jerry R. Green

A two-period lifetime overlapping generations growth model is used to evaluate the possibility that social insurance can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of the seriousness of this type of... View Details

Keywords: Social Insurance; Econometric Models; Public Sector; Government Administration; Policy; Human Needs; Social Issues; Risk and Uncertainty

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October 1977 (Revised September 1983)
Case

Colonial Food Services Co.

By: Michael Beer and James G. Clawson

The first case in a four-part case series which outlines the events leading up to a performance appraisal interview. Describes the background of the company. View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Food and Beverage Industry