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GE Healthcare in India: An Ultra(Sound) Strategy?
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Harris, Jared; Jain, Mayank
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
This case outlines the dilemma of when the GE Healthcare’s ultrasound machines were implicated in many cases of prenatal sex determination in India. Many women were relying on ultrasound machines to determine the gender of their fetus and, if it were a girl, having abortions.
Storm and Crisis: A Tale of 3 Companies
Author: Deutsch, Claudia H.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
Hurricane Katrina has been the big leveler in more than the physical sense. Small banks, big stores and international manufacturers were all hit, and all are trying to figure out how to help customers and employees. Like the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have scattered to temporary homes and shelters throughout the South, businesses are also part of the diaspora.
El Diablo: The Corner Cleaner Affair
Author: Fairchild, Gregory B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2001
This case involves the decision of a publishing company, El Diablo, to target a traditionally underserved market with a series of books about gang life and street vigilantism. The decision has repercussions within the firm, as collegial relationships are tested by office politics, and outside of the firm, where community response to the project is less than positive...
The Crisis at Tyco - A Director's Perspective
Authors: Srinivasan, Suraj; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
In 2002, Wendy Lane had been a member of the board of directors at Tyco International a little more than a year when the company's CEO Dennis Kozlowski and other top executives were accused of fraud, which ultimately led to resignations, imprisonments, lawsuits, and SEC filings. In a short period of time Tyco lost 2/3rds of its market value. Many outside the company questioned the board's leadership and diligence. Lane, who had a successful career in investment banking before becoming a professional director, was caught in the firestorm.
Tetra Pak Argentina
Authors: Khanna, Tarun; Palepu, Krishna G.; Herrero, Gustavo A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Deals with the hands-on management of a difficult situation facing the subsidiary of a multinational corporation (Tetra Pak) in a developing country (Argentina). Shows how the foreign firm must cope with difficult domestic situations, where the levers of control are beyond its reach.
Bailouts and Bonuses on Wall Street
Authors: Martin, Kirsten E.; Scotto, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics
Publication Year: 2010
Matt, a top level executive at Goldman Sachs, never figured that how he paid his employees would be one of his most pressing issues—not after having watched his entire industry turned on its head for the past two years and the world economy shaken to its core.
What is the Matter With Business Ethics?
Author: Stark, Andrew
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 1993
The enterprise of business ethics is calling for changes in the way business ethics is conducted. New approaches speak directly to the concerns of managers and the mix of motives and realities with which these managers contend.
Nestle Purina PetCare
Authors: Exten, L.; Gimenez, P.; Steinberg, J.; O'Rourke, J. S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Publication Year: 2009
The pet food poisoning scare of 2007, in which numerous pet food products were contaminated with melamine sourced from China, seriously damaged many of the afflicted firms' reputations for safety and customer concern. Pet food industry leader Nestle Purina released two unapologetic statements revealing limited information about the source of the problem and its impact on consumers.
Report Details How Lehman Hid Its Woes
Author: de la Merced, Michael J.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2010
It is the Wall Street equivalent of a coroner’s report — a 2,200-page document that lays out, in new and startling detail, how Lehman Brothers used accounting sleight of hand to conceal the bad investments that led to its undoing.
Perrier Recall: A Source of Trouble
Authors: Greyser, Stephen A.; Klein, Norman
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1990
When a laboratory discovered traces of the carcinogen benzene in bottles of Perrier, Group Perrier of America immediately announced a voluntary U.S. recall of all Perrier brand imported water.
Shale Gas Extraction by Shell: Environmental Implications
Author: Dutta, Subhankar
Product Type: Cases
Source: Amity Research Centre
Publication Year: 2011
Royal Dutch Shell Company initiated a South African oil project that led to controversy around "fracking" extraction technology. The company faced strong protest and criticism from the local inhabitants and environmentalists arguing that the project could contaminate the underground water and lead to serious health problems across the region.
Salomon Brothers (A, B, C)
Author: Paine, Lynn Sharp
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2004
Describes Salomon Brothers' recovery from the August 1991 Treasury auction scandal.
Israel's Marketing Challenge
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2009
Israel faces a dual marketing challenge. First, similar to countries like Afghanistan and Iraq whose wars dominate the news, Israel's public perception is marked by images of violence and conflict rather than ones suggesting stability and a hospitable business environment. This leads to the second marketing challenge, that of Israeli companies striving to attract investors and customers even as they contend with a tide of negative world opinion.
United is a Poor Model for Employee Ownership
Author: Flanigan, James
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Los Angeles Times
Publication Year: 2002
It would be easy to look at what’s happening at United Airlines, now on the brink of bankruptcy, and conclude that the concept of employee ownership in America has fallen into a tailspin.
Video: Advanced Results Marketing (A)
Authors: Marram, E.; Youngman, C.; Luecke, R.
Product Type: Cases; Multimedia
Source: Arthur M Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Publication Year: 2007
This video is to accompany the case '154-C07A-P'. The abstract of the case is as follows: Victor Grillo, was deeply distressed by what was happening in Advanced Results Marketing, the company he had founded.
A Note on Cost Reduction in Financially Troubled Organizations
Author: Marshall, Paul W.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This note discusses methods for reducing costs, particularly labor costs, in a financially distressed organization.
General Motors Corporation: Communicating a New Vision for Survival (A, B)
Authors: Sorensen, Lina; Whitehead, Timothy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Arthur W. Page Society
Publication Year: 2009
On November 19, 2008, the executives of the "Big Three" auto-makers flew into Washington, D.C. to make their case for federal loan assistance. The situation for all automakers was dire due to the collapse of car sales around the world and the financial losses stemming from the banking crisis. Of all the automakers, non had fallen as quickly or as perplexingly as the industry giant General Motors Corporation.
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.
A Synergistic Union, or Selling Out?
Author: Dunning, Rebecca
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Publication Year: 2009
This case uses the controversial partnership linking the University of California-Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources and agribusiness giant Novartis to examine the ongoing tensions between higher education’s public mission and its competition for resources in a competitive education and research market.
Catch-22 for Kellogg's?
Authors: Purkayastha, D.; Maseeha, S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
The case discusses the fall-out of an endorsement deal between Kellogg Company and 2008 Olympic swimming champion Michael Fred Phelps after the latter was photographed smoking marijuana from a bong.
A Closer Look at Business Education: Finance Faculty Reflect on the Financial Crisis
Author: Shattuck, Rachel
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
This Closer Look—which highlights several MBA finance professors’ teaching on the financial crisis and sets forth some of their thoughts on how finance as a discipline might best adjust its pedagogy and core assumptions going forward—is the first in a series of short papers that will examine business education’s response to the crisis. The series aims to cover a range of disciplines and, where possible, to highlight current teaching.
Foxconn Technology Group (A, B)
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Serafeim, George; Cheng, Beiting
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
The case focuses on the challenges that Foxconn faced after a series of suicides took place at its plants.
Freddie Mac: Managing in Conservatorship
Authors: Kaplan, Robert S.; Nohria, Nitin; Creo, Ben
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
The Chief Executive Officer of Freddie Mac is facing a challenge: to lead Freddie Mac, build its culture, upgrade its operations and generally prepare the organization for re-emerging from conservatorship. In the background, housing prices continue to deteriorate and the company continues to lose money.
The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (A, B)
Author: Baldwin, Carliss Y.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
The Congressional Oversight Panel wants to value the warrants issued to the government in connection with the TARP investments of 2008, in order to increase the transparency of options repurchases. The case describes the methodology used to value the warrants.
The Multinational Firm and Geostrategy
Author: Jones, Milo
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: IE Business School
Publication Year: 2011
This course explores how geopolitical factors affect multinational firms, and how business strategy intersects with geopolitical events. We will consider geopolitics in the broadest sense, looking at how geography, climate, culture, demography, politics, economics and technology interact with business strategy.
Greenpeace's Unfriend Coal Campaign and Facebook
Authors: Sider, Michael; Bigus, Paul
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Facebook’s director of policy communications was faced with a situation caused by a YouTube video posted by Greenpeace. This video publicly critiqued the environmental sustainability of Facebook’s decision to build a new data center, its main objection being the fact that the new facility would be connected to a local utility provider that supplied electricity mainly from the burning of coal, one of the largest sources of global warming...
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.
Business and Peace: Sketching the Terrain
Authors: Oetzel, Jennifer; Westermann-Behaylo, Michelle; Koerber, Charles; Fort, Timothy L.; Rivera, Jorge
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics
Publication Year: 2009
This article introduces a concept for an emerging set of principles that can be integrated into corporate strategy for how business can directly engage with conflict-sensitive environments.
Olympus and the Whistleblower President
Authors: Williams, Christopher; Takeshita, Seijiro
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The newly-appointed president and chief operating officer of Olympus Corporation of Japan was about to attend an emergency board meeting and needed to decide on a course of action. Since assuming the job in April 2011, the president had discovered evidence of corporate fraud on a large scale...
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...
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.
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.
WorldCom: Keeping Planes in the Air (A)
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Sack, Robert J.; Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
This case focuses on the dilemma faced by Betty Vinson, a senior manager in the corporate accounting division of telecommunications giant WorldCom, when asked repeatedly to falsify financial information. Vinson’s story is contrasted with that of Cynthia Cooper, the head of WorldCom’s internal audit department, who refused to accept the fraud that she and her team uncovered.
Strategies for Learning from Failure
Author: Edmondson, Amy C.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2011
The wisdom of learning from failure is incontrovertible. Yet organizations that do it well are extraordinarily rare. The reason: Those managers were thinking about failure the wrong way.
Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (A, B, C)
Authors: Goldberg, Lena G.; Obenchain, Tiffany
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
Facing the worldwide financial crisis, Goldman Sachs' CEO Lloyd Blankfein considered his options...
Toby Johnson (A, B)
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Danford, Leslie; Lodge, Amy; Sayles, Tereh
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
After completing her MBA in 2007, Toby Johnson, a former army pilot with the 18th Airborne Corps Rapid Deployment Force, joined PepsiCo's Leadership Development Program (LDP). For her first assignment with PepsiCo, Johnson accepted a position as a manufacturing-manager at a Frito-Lay plant in Williamsport, PA. The Williamsport plant had 200 employees and 54 million pounds of production per year. The case describes how Johnson took charge of the plant, and her action plan for implementing a new set of changes
Qantas Airlines: Twitter Nosedive
Authors: Seijts, Jana; Bigus, Paul
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
The executive of Government and Corporate Affairs at Qantas Airlines faced a communication situation that was spiraling out of control. By the second day, nearly 15,000 people worldwide had used social media to vent their frustrations with the airline. The executive needs to devise a plan of action, before additional damage is incurred by one of Australia’s strongest brands.
Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell
Authors: Paine, Lynn Sharp; Adamsons, Lara
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
On the eve of trial, and after nearly 14 years of pre-trial litigation, the parties in Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell jointly announced that the four U.S. lawsuits stemming from the execution of the Ogoni Nine in 1995 had been settled.
CyberU
Author: Ogden, Joslyn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Publication Year: 2009
Examines how the accreditation of the first completely online university served as a catalyst for bringing into the public sphere conversations about the definition and purpose of higher education, the way new technologies affect how communication and learning happen, and the role of corporations in higher education
Employee Ownership and Unions: Lessons from the Airline Industry
Author: Hansmann, Henry
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Chapter 24, Employee Representation in the Emerging Workplace, Kluwer Law International
Publication Year: 1999
The U.S. airline industry has, in recent years, offered some conspicuous examples of a phenomenon that has now become familiar, both in the U.S. and abroad, among firms that face economic difficulties: the granting to employees of a substantial ownership stake in return for wage and work rule concessions necessary to maintain the firm’s viability.
The Power of Persuasion
Author: Cialdini, Robert B.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2003
Why is it that one person feels obligated to another, and what compels someone to fulfill an obligation? Can one person influence another ethically, in a way that leaves both parties feeling satisfied?
Behind the Glitter
Author: Schuerman, Matthew
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2004
Rebels in African countries mined diamonds to finance their insurgencies throughout the 1990s, but American jewelry companies didn’t understand what the practice had to do with them until late 1998.
StarKist (A, B)
Authors: Vietor, Richard H.K.; Reinhardt, Forest; Duxbury, Peggy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1995
During the 1980s, the public became increasingly concerned about tuna fishing practices that killed dolphins. StarKist was the target of a consumer boycott initiated by the environmental community...
'New Economy' High-Tech Jobs Look Much Like Old Economy Low-Wage Work
Author: Moran, Patrick
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Labor Notes
Publication Year: 2001
The “new economy” is another name for an old bag of tricks where promise and reality don’t match up. E-workers counting on valuable stock options, a revolutionized workplace, and premier wages and benefits have instead gotten mediocre wages, useless stock options, relentless production pressure, and maximum job insecurity.
Planning to Manage Your Next Crisis Decisively and Effectively
Author: Cross, Barry
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ivey Business Journal
Publication Year: 2009
Risk management (specific plans dealing with high-probability events) by itself cannot account for all levels of uncertainty. Management also needs to rely on a generalized approach, a crisis-management plan to deal with low-probability but high-consequence events. This author, who has managed crises in large, multinational industrial corporations, has a practical, ten-step plan for managing a crisis.
Research in Motion: Sincerely, a RIM Employee (A, B)
Authors: Seijts, Jana; Bigus, Paul
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
On June 30, 2011, Research in Motion (RIM) co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, unexpectedly found themselves facing serious public scrutiny, not from competitors, market analysts or consumers, but from one of their own senior executives...
Changing the Culture at British Airways
Authors: Kotter, John P.; Leahey, James K.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1993
Focusing on the paramount importance of customer service, British Airways went from "bloody awful" to "bloody awesome."
Employment at Will
Authors: Paine, Lynn S.; Bruner, Christopher M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Provides a brief overview of the employment-at-will doctrine, an important concept unique to the U.S. legal system and business landscape.
Research in Motion: Blackberry Blackout (A, B)
Authors: Seijts, Jana; Bigus, Paul
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), faced a situation of truly disastrous proportion. Earlier that week, service outages started occurring on RIM’s popular BlackBerry smartphone devices, affecting over 30 million BlackBerry users globally. This case was written to place students directly into the role of an organization facing a crisis situation, to which mounting external pressure and public speculation requires the organization to officially respond.
Lecture 11: Water
Author: Seagle, Carol
Product Type: Notes; Teaching Modules
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2009
Objective for this class:
-Familiarity with the threats and opportunities in the water sector and the strategies companies use to minimize risk and gain advantage
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