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Describes Allied, the chemical industry, and the effects of the Kepone problem (a toxic pesticide dumped into the James River) as of 1976. The executive in the case must decide whether the company should support the passage of the Toxic Substances Control Act and an... View Details

Keywords: Pollutants; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Laws and Statutes; Welfare; Legal Liability; Business and Government Relations; Chemical Industry

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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)

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November/December 1978
Article

What Comes First in Feeding the Hungry?

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Food; Poverty

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April 1978 (Revised May 1993)
Teaching Note

Child Care Task Force, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Welfare; Health Industry

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March–April 1978
Article

Testing Social Theories in Marketing Settings

By: D. A. Leonard and E. M. Rogers

Keywords: Theory; Marketing; Society

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1 Mar 1978
Conference Presentation

The Changing Shape of Work: Psychosocial Trends in America

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Social Issues

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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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July 1977
Article

Social Roles, Social Control and Biases in Social Perception Processes

By: L. D. Ross, T. M. Amabile and J. Steinmetz

To make accurate social judgments, an individual must both recognize and adequately correct for the self-presentation advantages or disadvantages conferred upon actors by their social roles. Two experiments using 120 undergraduates examined social perceptions formed... View Details

Keywords: Perception; Prejudice and Bias; Social Psychology; Judgments; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Situation or Environment

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