Business Ecomomic and Public Policy CaseWorks Abstracts
Spring 2008

WorldCom: The Accounting Scheme Backfires

Sudhakar Balachandran,
Gil Sadka

When the telecom bubble began to burst in 2001, WorldCom embarked on a fraudulent accounting scheme to inflate its profits.

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Spring 2008

Phelps Dodge 2005

Bruce Greenwald

In late 2005, Phelps-Dodge Corporation, one of the world's leading metals producers had to decide whether to open a new copper mine near Safford, Arizona at a projected cost of $550 million dollars.

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Spring 2008

Executive Compensation: Rewards for Success or Unnecessary Excess?

Maria Guadalupe

This brief synthesizes economic research on executive compensation to help explain the trends in both the level of executive pay and composition of the executive compensation package from the 1930s to the present.

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Spring 2008

Wireless Telecom Inc.

Alessandro Citanna
Geoffrey Heal

Wireless Telecom is a new company just beginning to provide cellular phone service in the North East of the United States.

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Winter 2007

Petromor

Sebastian Ceria

A state owned oil company wants to maximize revenue from the sale of its assets. Use a decision model spreadsheet to determine how they can do this.

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