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  • Harvard Business School
  • Michael A. Wheeler
  • 2001

✴︎ Available only with purchase from publisher

This teaching case from Harvard Business School “documents attempts to restructure a public-private partnership between the operator of a $200 million trash-to-energy cogeneration plant and a consortium of two dozen Massachusetts municipalities.” The case “describes the process that led to a one-sided agreement, as well as the legal developments that opened up the possibility of a revision.” (Also see case supplements B and C.)

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