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A Tattle Tale?
Author: Loo, W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
The subject of plagiarism and a poorly contributing group member to group assignments is one that resonates deeply with students pursuing any course that emphasizes group work as a necessary component of the course assessment. The case has practical relevance to the working world in as much as the incident can occur in that context.
Business and Professional Ethics for Directors, Executives and Accountants
Author: Brooks, Leonard J.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: South-Western College Pub; 3 edition
Publication Year: 2003
A text focuses on the practical development of the skills needed to deal with ethical issues specific to accounting...
Ethics World
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: EthicsWorld.org
Publication Year: 2008
EthicsWorld.org aims to disseminate information and strengthen understanding of the critical issues of institutional governance, business ethics and anti-corruption, by reporting on key developments and providing a forum for diverse opinions.
Labour and Service Market Liberalization in the Enlarged EU (A, B)
Author: Webber, D
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2007
With growth in the membership of the European Union following the collapse of communism in several countries, conflicts have emerged as the Union struggles to enact market liberalization, due in part to income disparities among member states.
SpudSpy
Authors: Fleming, Lee; Snow, Daniel
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
Discusses the challenges and potential problems of technology transfer and, in particular, the issues that can arise when student teams work on technology transfer projects.
Electronic Commerce Law and Ethics
Author: O'Brien, Kevin
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Denver, Daniels College of Business
Publication Year: 2006
This course is designed to prepare students to function effectively in a world where legal compliance, political pressures, and ethical choices are shifting from reactive processes to proactive and strategic approaches.
Managing Yourself: Keeping Your Colleagues Honest
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2010
Jonathan has a new job. Just promoted from the accounting group at headquarters, he is now the controller for a regional sales unit of a consumer electronics company. However, when the quarterly numbers come due, he realizes that the next quarter’s sales are being reported early to boost bonus compensation.
Does the Free Market Corrode Moral Character?: Thirteen Views on the Question
Authors: Cowen, Tyler; Bhagwati, Jagdish; Gray, John; Kasparov, Garry; He, Qinglian; Walzer, Michael; Lévy, Bernard-Henri; Hymowitz, Kay S.; Reich, Robert B.; Ali, Ayaan Hirsi; Bogle, John C.; Santorum, Rick
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The John Templeton Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
Over the past decade, the effect of the market economy and globalization on long-established habits, beliefs, and institutions has been much debated in scholarly circles, in popular books, and in the serious press.
Are Overconfident Executives More Inclined to Commit Fraud?
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
Confidence underlies decisive, strong leadership, but does overconfidence lead managers to cross the line and commit fraud?
Metalclad in Mexico (A, B)
Author: Cronin, P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2002
This case is especially useful for exploring issues relating to direct investment in a foreign country. Metalclad's entry strategy runs into difficulty and the case allows students to analyze what went wrong and why. The case also facilitates discussion on changing perceptions of the environment as a public policy issue and as a business opportunity in developing countries.
Asian Car Part Holding
Authors: Amann, Wolfgang; Steger, Ulrich
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD
Publication Year: 2006
Should an investor representative to the board challenge the sale of the company, which was affected without knowledge of the board, based on broader principles than profitability?
Acteon Travel Agency, Greece
Author: Dana, Teresa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Nanyang Business School
Publication Year: 1998
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Tourism is on the rise and this couldn't be truer for the Greek island of Ios. Acteon Travel is one of the best-represented agencies on the island. Questions arise as to the ethics surrounding how this company maintains its leadership position...
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.
Mtn Cameroon
Authors: Rivera-Santos, M.; Vandemore, M.; Rufin, C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 2009
This is the third of a four-case series (BAB133-BAB136). This case series is designed to illustrate the specificities of competition in poor and developing economies and, more specifically, competition at the base of the pyramid.
BrainLAB (A, B, C)
Author: Mullins, John W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: London Business School
Publication Year: 2004
This is a three-part case, detailing the conflict between medical software/device companies after one declines a takeover bid.
Peripheral Products Co.
Author: Cespedes, Frank V.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1986
In mid-1985, the vice president of marketing for a large manufacturer of disk drives is considering how to deal with a growing “gray market” for his company's products.
Avoiding Ethical Danger Zones
Authors: Messick, David; Bazerman, Max; Stewart, Lisa
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics
Publication Year: 2006
To develop a framework for improved ethical decision making, managers can focus on three key areas: quality, breadth, and honesty.
Director Accountability and the Mediating Role of the Corporate Board.
Authors: Blair, Margaret; Stout, Lynn A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Washington University Law Quarterly, Vol. 79, 2001
Publication Year: 2001
AXA MONY
Authors: Perold, Andre F.; White, Lucy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
AXA's friendly bid for MONY is contested by activist hedge funds suspicious of management's generous change in control contracts.
Leading Citigroup (A, B)
Authors: Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Paine, Lynn S.; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
These cases describe a series of controversial events and alleged misdeeds that placed Citigroup in the public spotlight and launched investigations into the company's business practices
The Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Author: SEC Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Securities and Exchange Commission
Publication Year: 2006
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission" or "SEC") chartered the Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies on March 23, 2005. The Charter directed the Advisory Committee to assess the current regulatory system for smaller companies under the securities laws of the United States, and make recommendations for changes...
The Bad Fuel
Authors: Epie, Chantal; Agbu, Chuca
Product Type: Cases; Exercises
Source: Lagos Business School
Publication Year: 2002
This negotiation case includes the respective briefs of the four parties to the negotiation.
Network Associates: Securing the Network
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Burns, Jennifer
Product Type: Cases
Source: Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship @ Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1999
Follows one company's path through the uncharted terrain of government regulation and the Internet.
The Impossibility of Auditor Independence
Authors: Bazerman, Max H.; Morgan, Kimberly P.; Loewenstein, George F.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 89-94
Publication Year: 1997
The growing number of audit failures leads the authors to question the current auditing relationship. In no profession is impartiality more important than in auditing, they say. Yet psychological research indicates that such impartiality is impossible under current institutional arrangements...
A Rogue Trader at Daiwa Bank (A, B)
Author: Misawa, Mitsuru
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2005
In 1995, the VP of Daiwa Bank's New York branch confessed that over the course of 11 years, he had lost nearly $1.1 billion through the unauthorized trading of United States Treasury Bonds and had sold securities the bank had in custody to cover losses. Discusses the impact of Japanese and American cultural differences on attitudes toward proper international business practices.
Accounting for Decision Makers
Author: McPeak, Chuck
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Pepperdine University, Graziadio School of Management
Publication Year: 2006
The primary emphasis of this study is to place sophisticated tools and techniques in the hands of primary users in making business decisions. Specific topics include cost behavior analysis, cost management systems, relevant cost analysis, performance measurement, and value-based management control systems.
Marilyn Carlson Nelson and the Carlson Companies' Renaissance
Authors: George, Bill; McLean, Andrew N.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
Marilyn Carlson Nelson, CEO and chairman of the Carlson Companies, must decide whether to outsource jobs at the risk of destroying the Companies' culture.
Corporate Conduct That Does Not Maximize Shareholder Gain
Author: Eisenberg, Melvin A.
Product Type: Journal Articles; Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Stetson Law Review, Summer 1998, vol. XXVIII, pp. 1-27.
Publication Year: 1998
A long-standing issue in corporate law is the extent to which corporations can properly engage in nonmaximizing conduct...
The Gulf Center for Excellence in Ethics
Author: Levine, Jonathan B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2004
The Gulf Centre for Excellence in Ethics opened formally in 1998 to educate businesses and governments in the Arabian Gulf about the need to establish standards for workplace ethics...
Biovail Corporation: Revenue Recognition and FOB Sales Accounting
Author: Chapman, Craig J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
Biovail Corporation, a major Canadian pharmaceutical company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, announces that it will miss its quarterly earnings target by $25 to $45 million, blaming $10 to $15 million of the shortfall on a truck accident involving a shipment that left its facility on the last day of the quarter.
The Accountability Lens: A New Way to View Management Issues
Authors: Hall, Angela T.; Bowen, Micheal G.; Ferris, Gerald R.; Royle, M. Todd; Fitzgibbons, Dale E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Indiana University
Publication Year: 2007
Contends that viewing organizations through an accountability lens (in terms of source, focus, salience, and intensity) helps illuminate issues of governance and ethical dilemmas common to most individuals at work.
ExxonMobil and the Chad/Cameroon Pipeline (A, B)
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2003
This case presents the dilemma of ExxonMobil as it factors in the ethics issues related to the environment and cultural differences in deciding whether to proceed with building a pipeline in Chad and Cameroon, two of the poorest and most corrupt developing countries in West Africa.
BTL Construction: Was It Bribery or Just Business as Usual?
Authors: Steger, U; Nedopil, C
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD - International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2007
The learning objectives are to: (1) discuss bribery and its consequences from a Board member's perspective; and (2) learn what measures can be taken to avoid or deal with bribery.
Southwestern Ohio Steel Company, LP: The Matworks Decision
Author: Rosenthal, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 1999
Southwestern Ohio Steel was a service center that provided wholesaling functions between steel mills and users of strip and sheet steel... The vice president of sales was facing a business and moral dilemma. He had recently received a letter from a large and long-time customer asking that, as a major supplier, Southwestern Ohio Steel contribute to the customer's annual sales meeting by sponsoring an event
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Author: The SEC
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Publication Year: 2011
The SEC is responsible for implementing a series of regulatory initiatives required under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Corporate Responsibility in the Midst of Financial Distress
Authors: Lakatos, J; Bukowy, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 2007
This case study covers key concepts in finance, business ethics and corporate responsibility, including the duties of directors and officers, the rights of shareholders, debt restructuring, reorganisations and bankruptcy.
U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (A, B)
Authors: Alfaro, Laura; Kim, Renee
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
By March 2008, the U.S. Government and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board had taken various policy measures over the last few months to tackle the subprime mortgage crisis that threatened to drag the economy into a recession. Policy makers were caught in an intense debate over what the 'right' solution would be, and the implication of these policies on global imbalances.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Author: One Hundred and Seventh U.S. Congress
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source:
Publication Year: 2002
South African Mining and Asbestos-Related Diseases (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Publishing Company
Publication Year: 2006
These cases explain the history of asbestos mining in South Africa, the complicated relationship between the multinational companies and an apartheid and post-apartheid South African regime, and details the struggles and issues that many ARD-afflicted South Africans faced in bringing the multinationals to justice and seeking redress.
Principled Leadership
Authors: Glynn, Mary Ann; Whitaker, Alan
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Emory University, Goizueta Business School
Publication Year: 2005
In this course, we focus on how a leader's values can create capacities for principled action. The course is designed to enhance the student's skills in leading with with principles, particularly in situations that challenge those principles.
Social Responsibility in Business
Author: Lele, Shreevardhan
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Maryland
Publication Year: 2008
Course Objectives:
1.Analyze issues at the intersection of business and society using there types of criteria: economic, legal and ethical.
2.Understand and use frameworks for moral reasoning.
3.Understand the variety of values and institutions (or practices, or arrangements, or mechanisms) that are, and can be, used in making managerial decisions.
4.Understand managerial agency, and to view leadership as the exercise of managerial agency to change values and institutions.
5.View business management as a profession, and to develop an identity as a member of this profession in a global society.
6.Develop a personal set of aspirational values; and to identify practices that will facilitate the promotion of those aspirational values.
Zeneca's Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Nolvadex (R)
Authors: Eaton, Margaret L.; Ehrlich, Jason; Chopra, Naveen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2005
Despite careful planning, Zeneca ran into concerns from the FDA and consumer groups when conducting direct to consumer advertising for the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen. This case raises the ethical issues involved in the marketing of pharmaceuticals.
Corporate Diplomacy
Author: Henisz, Witold J.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2009
This course surveys the managerial, political economic, sociological and psychological foundations of corporate diplomacy as well as 12 case study examples of successful and failed implementation in order to develop an interdisciplinary framework for the play of global influence games.
Principles of Auditing
Author: Floch, Julie
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: CUNY, Bernard M. Baruch College
Publication Year: 2007
The objective of this course is to provide an appropriate level of knowledge to students with a major in accounting, with an emphasis not only on the technical and practical applications of the subject matter but on the applicable ethical considerations that are required of all business persons, consistent with the Department of Accountancy's mission of providing high quality, high value education to its students.
Web-Conference: Sustainability and Stakeholders in the Finance Curriculum
Authors: Becker-Blease, John; Keating, Elizabeth
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
On October 29th, 2009, Aspen CBE hosted a web-conference on "Sustainability and Stakeholders in the Finance Curriculum" through the Corporate Governance and Accountability Project, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Success at What Cost?: A Case Study in Managerial Ethics and Compliance
Author: Purkayastha, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2008
This case is about SuperDrugz, a mid-sized pharmaceutical company in India.
Business Ethics
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source:
Publication Year: 2004
Business Ethics is a Canadian site offering and leading users to business case studies that focus on ethics. It offers articles and news coverage, as well as pointing users to business case studies...
New Rules in the Chemical Business: Case Study REACH and the Chemical Supply Chain
Author: Wollny, V
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Applied Sciences Mainz
Publication Year: 2007
The case contains exhibits on the chemical industry.
EU Verdict Against Microsoft
Authors: Yoffie, David B.; Slind, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
In 2004, following an investigation that began in 1998, the European Commission (EC) issued an antitrust judgment against Microsoft Corp., levying a record fine of 497 million euros ($613 million) and mandating changes of commercial behavior and bundling of Windows Media Player with Microsoft's Windows operating system. Explores the role of antitrust laws in competitive strategy.
Controlling Delinquency in Micro-Lending
Authors: Dempsey, Jeanette; Linowes, Richard
Product Type: Cases
Source: USAID & Institute of International Education (IIE)
Publication Year: 2002
Mujeres Unidas is a non-profit microfinance institution in Bolivia serving poor women inexperienced in business, but actively developing for-profit ventures. Mujeres Unidas offers participants educational and financial services so they can develop their capacities and skills and improve their personal, family and civic lives, but has run into several issues of fraud and delinquency.
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