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Corporate Profit and Nuclear Safety: Strategy at Northeast Utilities in the 1990s
Paul W. Macavoy
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Description for Corporate Profit and Nuclear Safety: Strategy at Northeast Utilities in the 1990s
Hardback. Northeast Utilities Company adopted a new competitive strategy in the mid-1980s. Curtailing outlays on nuclear operations meant high risk that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would close the plants because of prolonged outages. This is just what happened in 1996. This book describes ten years of corporate performance preceding the shutdown. Num Pages: 176 pages, 4 line illus. 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; RNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Northeast Utilities Company adopted an ambitious new competitive strategy in the mid-1980s, seeking to become the low-cost supplier in New England electric power markets bracing for deregulation. Given its high-cost nuclear facilities, doing so required a corporate turnaround. For a decade Northeast faced increasing public and employee resistance to cost cutting at its nuclear plants. Though management achieved many of its goals, curtailing outlays on nuclear operations meant high risk that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would close the plants because of frequent, prolonged outages. This is just what happened in 1996. Did management's deliberate cost-containment strategy take nuclear operations to ... Read more
Northeast Utilities Company adopted an ambitious new competitive strategy in the mid-1980s, seeking to become the low-cost supplier in New England electric power markets bracing for deregulation. Given its high-cost nuclear facilities, doing so required a corporate turnaround. For a decade Northeast faced increasing public and employee resistance to cost cutting at its nuclear plants. Though management achieved many of its goals, curtailing outlays on nuclear operations meant high risk that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would close the plants because of frequent, prolonged outages. This is just what happened in 1996. Did management's deliberate cost-containment strategy take nuclear operations to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691119946
SKU
V9780691119946
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About Paul W. Macavoy
Paul W. MacAvoy is the Williams Brothers Professor of Management Studies at Yale University and former Dean of the Yale School of Management. The author of nineteen books, he served on President Ford's Council of Economic Advisors and was an economic advisor to George H. W. Bush before his vice-presidential election. Jean W. Rosenthal, a former manager at Pacific Gas ... Read more
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"This is an interesting, well-argued addition to the current discussion of corporate governance."
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