Corporate Profit and Nuclear Safety: Strategy at Northeast Utilities in the 1990s

by Jean W. Rosenthal and Paul W. MacAvoy

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691119945
• ISBN13: 9780691119946
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.4"