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Recall 2000: Bridgestone Corp. (A)
Author: Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
In September 2000, the president of Bridgestone-Firestone, the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Bridgestone Corp., was invited to appear before a U.S. congressional subcommittee investigating the August 2000 recall of more than 6.5 million tires made by the subsidiary...
George McClelland at KSR (A, B, C)
Authors: Margolis, Joshua D.; Kanji, Ayesha; Wong, Wan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
George McClelland accepts a position as the chief administrative officer/chief operating officer at Kendall Square Research, but after discovering problems with documentation and revenue reporting, McClelland has to decide what course of action to take.
Swiss Re
Author: Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Pew Center on Global Climate Change (www.pewclimate.org)
Publication Year: 2006
Swiss Re stands out as being more at risk from the physical impacts of climate change itself. The insurance industry may experience dramatically increased costs due to a growth in climate-related effects...
Nest Fresh Eggs (A, B)
Author: Amabile, Teresa M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Szymanski had based her company, Nest Fresh Eggs, on a strong personal belief that people deserved healthier alternatives for food and that animals deserved to be treated well. But, during Nest Fresh's 14 years in business, the egg industry had undergone a number of changes. Szymanski had to come up with business alternatives, some of which might require back-pedaling on her convictions.
Malden Mills (A, B)
Authors: Nohria, Nitin; Gurtler, Bridget; Piper, Thomas R.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
CEO Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills decided to pay idled workers after a massive fire at his mill in 1995. Focuses on the decisions made post-fire and the rebuilding process and eventual bankruptcy of the company...
Hurricane Katrina: Continuing the Discussions A Year Later
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex; The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2006
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the media was suddenly broaching topics such as race inequality and environmental planning that receive little attention in the national discourse. CasePlace.org released a Featured Collection that covered a variety of topics that could be raised in business school classrooms (ranging from how to detect windfall profits to the history of racialized images in the media to budget tradeoffs in the face of warnings about environmental disaster). A year later, the same issues are relevant, but have they lost urgency? From securing levees to securing livelihoods, these topics remain important for future business leaders....
Changan Automobile Co., Ltd.
Authors: Xia, Donglin; Campbell, Dennis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
This case helps students to explore the financial reporting, firm visibility, and disclosure issues in China's fast-growing economy in the context of a firm competing in the high-growth, highly competitive automobile industry.
The Octopus and the Generals
Authors: Jones, Geoffrey G.; Bucheli, Marcelo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Examines the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. This case discusses the tension between large Western resource multinationals and developing countries for much of the last century.
After Katrina: Rebuilding Places and Lives, City & Community
Author: Briggs, Xavier de Sousa
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: City & Community, Volume 5, Issue 2. American Sociological Association
Publication Year: 2006
In this article, the author briefly outlines this context and develops two arguments about rebuilding: First, that debates about returning versus relocating families, including the poor, should be grounded in the realities of the city's housing and labor markets and reflect informed choices, not anecdotes, about the preferences of the displaced; and second, that we should not rely on simplistic images of "community lost" to understand what the displaced stand to lose or gain by either moving back or moving on...
Wal-Mart: Nonmarket Pressure and Reputation Risk (A, B)
Author: Baron, David P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
In 2002, when Wal-Mart became the largest U.S. company in sales, it began to attract considerable attention. Its expansion into the grocery business seemed to ignite a firestorm of contention and bad press.
The Roller Coaster Ride
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Balog, Steve; Haimson, Jennifer
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Presents a detailed account of power dynamics that unfold in the firm when one of its best and brightest threatens to leave. Focuses on the dynamics of attracting, retaining, compensating, negotiating, and leveraging a star performer in a professional services firm...
AccuForm: Ethical Leadership and Its Challenges in the Era of Globalization
Authors: Woo, Claudia H.L.; Wong, Raymond; Lau, Amy
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2006
AccuForm, a German-Hong Kong joint venture specializing in the production of chemical coatings for application to garments, is confronted with a situation where an unauthorized Chinese manufacturer had stolen one of AccuForm's experimental coatings, applied it to their own brand of clothing, and sold it to the public as an AccuForm product.
IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge (A, B)
Authors: Bartlett, Christopher A.; Dessain, Vincent; Sjoman, Anders
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance of a sourcing strategy based on its close relationships with suppliers in developing countries...
Saudi Arabia
Authors: Vietor, Richard; Evans, Rebecca
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Provides a vehicle to explore Islamic development and political issues within BGIE (business, government, and international economy). Set in early 2002, the case focuses on Crown Prince Abdullah's efforts to liberalize a failing rentier state, that had been dependent on petroleum for too long...
Sealed Air Taiwan (A)
Author: Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
The general manager for U.S.-based Sealed Air Corp.'s Taiwan subsidiary must decide how to improve productivity and achieve profitability...
Dean DeNisi Schooled By Katrina - A Flood Of Opportunity (A)
Authors: Yemen, Gerry; James, Erika H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Crisis as a source of opportunity and change? How does that happen? This case describes the difficult situation the new dean of the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana faced after Hurricane Katrina hit the city in the late summer of 2005...
Kent Thiry and DaVita
Author: Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2006
DaVita, one of the largest operators of kidney dialysis centers in the United States, underwent a remarkable turnaround between 2000 and 2005, a transformation based on building a strong values-driven culture, with an emphasis on fact-based decision making and the theme of "one for all, all for one" and an emphasis on company as community.
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.--2002
Author: Yoshino, Michael Y.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Carlos Ghosn, a former executive vice president of Renault, became the COO of Nissan Motor Co., a troubled auto company in Japan when Renault bought 38% of the company in 1999. This case deals with how Ghosn turned the company around...
The Children's Investment Fund, 2005
Authors: Cohen, Randolph B.; Sandbulte, Joshua B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
TCI, The Children's Investment Fund, is a London-based hedge fund. The firm donates a significant fraction of the fees it earns to a charitable foundation. In 2005, TCI took a large stake in Deutsche Borse, the stock exchange in Frankfurt. Its battle with management disrupted a proposed merger and caused the CEO to exit. Addresses a variety of issues in the investments business, including: How do stock pickers create value? What are the benefits of long-term vs. short-term orientation, buying vs. selling short, and a generalist vs. a specialist approach? What is the role of shareholder activism in corporate governance? Do the investment business and charitable giving mix?
A Direct Stake in Economic Life: Worker-Owned Firms
Author: Alperovitz, Gar
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Books / Book Chapters
Source: Vermont Commons, adapted from America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy (John Wiley and Sons Publishers, 2005)
Publication Year: 2006
That individuals work harder, better and with greater enthusiasm when they have a direct interest in the outcome is self-evident to most people. The obvious question is: Why aren’t large numbers of businesses organized on this principle? The answer is: In fact, thousands and thousands of them are.
The Salt Lake Organizing Committee
Authors: Bowen, H. K.; Purrington, Courtney; LaPierre, Bryce C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Summarizes the organizational structure and processes put in place by Bullock and CEO Mitt Romney, as well as how they created systems and culture to endow effective working knowledge to the 90% of their staff who started working two weeks before the games began...
Martha Stewart (A, B, C)
Authors: Paine, Lynn S.; Bruner, Christopher M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Explores Martha Stewart's December 2001 sale of ImClone Systems common stock, the ensuing federal investigations into possible insider trading, and Stewart's criminal prosecution and sentencing...
Xilinx, Inc. (A, B)
Authors: DeLong, Thomas J.; Darwall, Christina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Is it possible to create a great business and a company? Wim Roelandts sets out, in the context of Xilinx, to create a high-performance organization without sacrificing the human dimension...
Rebuild New Orleans
Author: Elstrott, John
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Professor John Elstrott, Director, Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship, Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
Publication Year: 2006
The overall objective is to learn how to recover from a widespread urban disaster from a government, community, business and personal perspective. Specifically the course will endeavor to strengthen student's skills in the following areas
On Risk And Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Authors: Daniels, Ronald J.; Kettl, Donald F.; Kunreuther, Howard
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 2006
Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume gathers leading experts to examine lessons that Hurricane Katrina teaches us about better assessing, perceiving, and managing risks from future disasters...
Politics of Tobacco Control: A History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry
Authors: Diermeier, Daniel; Thaker, Shail
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2006
Describes the history of the tobacco industry and its emergence as an extremely effective marketer and non-market strategist.
Thai Petrochemical Industry: Negotiating Debt after the East Asian Crisis (A, B)
Authors: Henisz, Witold J.; Capur, Aneesha
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2006
After the East Asian crisis in Thailand, Thai Petrochemical Industry (TPI), the largest petrochemical conglomerate in Southeast Asia, became the biggest delinquent debtor in the country. TPI’s creditors now had to make a decision on how best to maximize the value of their outstanding loans.
The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS
Author: Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Publication Year: 2006
The GBC is the pre-eminent organization leading the business fight against HIV/AIDS...
Humanitarian Operations and Supply Chain Logistics
Authors: Bjerre, Mogens; Tomasini, Rolando
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Copenhagen Business School
Publication Year: 2006
To provide students with an understanding of humanitarian operations by introducing the context in which they take place, the organizations, and the activities and challenges in the supply chain for the procurement, delivery, warehousing and distribution of the aid.
The Hurricane Katrina Multidisciplinary Service-Learning Project
Author: Bentley College
Product Type: Notes
Source: Bentley College, Bentley Service-Learning Center, Waltham, Massachusetts
Publication Year: 2006
The Hurricane Katrina Service-Learning Project was developed by the Bentley Service-Learning Center in November and December 2005 in response to the devastating impact of the hurricane on the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in southern Alabama. The project used an integrated, team-based approach to rebuild and improve the business processes of the Clinic...
Steve Parker and the GFS-China Technologies Venture (A, B, C, D)
Author: Inkpen, A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2006
GFS-China is a joint venture between Standard Industries of the United States and Good Fortune Enterprises of China. Two weeks after GFS-China began operating the venture came to a crisis. Steve Parker came in to try to turn the venture around, but was instead confronted with a multitude of managerial, ethical, and other challenges.
Ahold's Road to Recovery
Authors: Van Eennennaam, Fred; Mens, Maurits
Product Type: Cases
Source: Nyenrode Business Universiteit
Publication Year: 2006
This case describes the progress that Ahold had made after the crisis in 2003. Since then, Ahold had followed a structured approach towards integrity and corporate governance, as one of the fundamental principles underlining its objectives, strategy and values.
The Ahold Crisis
Authors: Van Eennennaam, Fred; Mens, Maurits
Product Type: Cases
Source: Nyenrode Business University
Publication Year: 2006
Monday 24 February 2003 was a black day in the history of Royal Ahold. On this day the world's third largest food retailer revealed a major accounting fraud at its subsidiary US Foodservice.
3M ESPE AG: Managing Intellectual Property in the Dental Impression Materials Market
Authors: Conley, James G.; Wong, Richard; Fields, James; Deutsch, Susan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
This case explores the choices made by a German manufacturer in the face of patent infringements.
ttools (A, B): The Value of a Patent to the Entrepreneur
Authors: Conley, James G.; Qu, Feng; Nudd, Geoff; Marcus, J. Cooper
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
ttools, being a small, resource-constrained company, was in a precarious position. Its competitive advantage and rights as a patent holder were being threatened. It had few financial resources to draw upon, and thus its livelihood as a company was at stake.
Kenya Airways (A)
Author: Munene, Catherine
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
In February 2003, Mr. Titus Naikuni was hired as Managing Director and CEO of the Kenya Airways Group. After attending the first few weekly business meetings as the Group's Managing Director and CEO, he realized he needed to develop a new direction for the company...
To Union or Not to Union
Author: Friedland, Julian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Leeds School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
Employees of Brighton Books are unhappy about their working conditions; should management fight attempts to introduce a union?
Walt Disney and the 1941 Animator's Strike
Authors: Nohria, Nitin; Mayo, Anthony J.; Gurtler, Bridget
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
An ambitious creative genius, Walt Disney masterfully pursued emerging technological advantage and uniquely grasped and personified American social mores, but was reckless and naive about strategic business issues, especially concerning intellectual property and human resources management.
Take Your Best Shot
Author: Deutsch, Claudia H.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
More than ever, Americans do not trust business or the people who run it.
Honorable Mention: The Anti-FEMA
Author: Sauer, Patrick J.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Inc. Magazine
Publication Year: 2005
As government officials dawdled, Richard Zuschlag didn't miss a beat. He sent his medics into flood-ravaged New Orleans, where they rescued more than 7,000 people.
Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Bartlett, Nicholas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
This case was analyzed for the 2003 Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition. In the final years of the 20th century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine
Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Authors: Santoro, Michael A.; Gorrie, Thomas M.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2005
Despite the pharmaceutical industry's notable contributions to human progress, including the development of miracle drugs for treating cancer, AIDS, and heart disease, there is a growing tension between the industry and the public. Debates are raging over how the industry can and should be expected to act...
Everyday High Health Costs; One Giant's Struggle Is Corporate America's, Too
Author: Abelson, Reed
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
Back in the spring, amid relentless criticism that Wal-Mart Stores was failing to provide affordable health care to employees, executives at the company decided to take a detailed look at its benefits. Wal-Mart knew its health costs were spiraling upward out of control, said M. Susan Chambers, the senior executive who led the initiative, but it was surprised to discover that its critics had a point...
James Burke: A Career in American Business (A, B)
Authors: Smith, Wendy; Tedlow, Richard S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Presents an historical overview of the professional career of James E. Burke, chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson. Examines the corporation's handling of three major occurrences--the Tylenol poisonings in 1982 and 1986 and the acquisition and subsequent sale of Technicare, a maker of diagnostic imaging equipment...
Grameen Bank
Authors: McMillan, John; Hanley, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Grameen Bank was a microcredit bank in Bangladesh, annually lending hundreds of millions of dollars to its millions of poor entrepreneurs. This case covers the history of the bank from 1975 to 1998, with a concentration on events in the mid nineties.
The Pension Pincher
Author: Thigpen, David
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Time Magazine
Publication Year: 2005
Delphi CEO Steve Miller says that traditional pensions are anachronisms that corporations must fix in order to survive. Can he change how the auto industry provides for its retired workers?
Land of Unequal Opportunity [Income Distribution and "Life Chances"]
Author: Tyson, Laura D'Andrea
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Business Week Online
Publication Year: 2005
Just days before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the U.S. Census Bureau published its annual report on income in America. The poverty rate increased in 2004 for the fourth year in a row, and 37 million Americans (12.7% of the population) were living in poverty -- 4 million more than in 2001...
Let Katrina Be a Warning
Authors: Carey, John; Woellert, Lorraine; Port, Otis; Javers, Eamon
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Business Week, pp 42-43
Publication Year: 2005
Experts on disaster risk reduction weigh the costs of development and of doing or not doing environmental fortification projects in highly developed areas.
Hurricane Katrina: Business School Classroom Discussions in its Aftermath
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex; CasePlace.org
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2005
As classes resumed in early September 2005, many students wanted to talk about Hurricane Katrina, its aftermath, and its implications on our society and us as business professionals. This collection poses ways to bring the topic of Katrina into the business school classroom, drawing upon but also analyzing and moving beyond what appears in the daily press.
A Wal-Mart Becomes a Lifeline
Author: Grow, Brian
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Business Week Online
Publication Year: 2005
While Wal-Mart's corporate relief effort enters overdrive -- the Bentonville (Ark.) giant says it's donating $17 million to Katrina relief and handing out free merchandise across the Gulf Coast -- the rebound in Columbia is, in many ways, a more revealing story. It's a little lesson in what oft-maligned Wal-Mart can, sometimes, mean to communities...
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