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United Airlines
Author: Kochan, Thomas A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work: Lessons from Leading Cases, Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
Publication Year: 1999
In 1994 United Airlines became the largest employee majority-owned enterprise in the United States, with various groups of employees – most represented by unions – having purchased 55% of its stock in exchange for various concessions. The employees accepted pay cuts and made other concessions, but were also granted representation on the company's board of directors...
Collective Bargaining: The General Motors-United Auto Workers Deal
Authors: Purkayastha, D.; Faheem, Hadiya
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2008
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This case is about the collective bargaining agreement between one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers, General Motors Corporation (GM), and the United Auto Workers (UAW) in late 2007.
RJR Nabisco
Author: Ruback, Richard S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
This case gives students the opportunity to explore issues facing the board of directors in a leveraged buyout...
The Shakedown: Should Customer Strategy Solutions Pay Off the Tax Officials?
Author: Bodrock, Phil
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Review.
Publication Year: 2005
Customer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo Zhuk, set up a software development center in Kiev, local bureaucrats say the company hasn't filed all the tax schedules it should have...
Hindustan Lever Re-invents the Wheel (A, B, C)
Authors: Ellison, Brian; Rodriguez, Miguel A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2003
This case series deals with the pioneering experience of Unilever at the "base of the pyramid" (BOP). The BOP consists of those 4 billion people excluded from the market economy and living in poverty. The BOP is a new management concept that conveys the promise to fulfill a twofold objective: promote social development and allow companies to regain double digit growth rates.
The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A, B, C, D, E)
Authors: Ferman, Carrie; Esty, Benjamin C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
On June 6, 2000, the World Bank's and IFC's board of directors was scheduled to vote on whether to approve funding for the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline project. Although the project presented a unique opportunity to alleviate poverty in Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world, Chad had a president who had been described as a "warlord" and a history of civil war and oppression...
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
NES China: Business Ethics (A, B)
Authors: Zhang, Xin; Dietz, Joerg
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2002
NES is one of Germany's largest industrial manufacturing groups. The company wants to set up a holding company to facilitate its manufacturing activities in China. NES's government affairs co-ordinator finds herself in a difficult position when she proposes that gifts should be given to government officials in order to establish a working relationship that will better NES's chance of having its application approved...
Building Products International - A Crisis Management Strategy (A, B, C)
Authors: DiStefano, Joseph D.; Everett, Donna R.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2000
The decision-maker responsible for evacuating company managers and their families from a crisis situation now faces a political hot-potato due to second-guessing from superiors, peers and subordinates as a result of decisions he made during the evacuation.
Innovation and Collaboration at Merrill Lynch
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Vargas, Ingrid
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
In the spring of 2005, about 500 Merrill Lynch analysts worldwide participated in a collaborative effort to produce innovative research. Many analysts who had been assigned to work on collaborative projects indicated increased learning and a willingness to work in teams again. The case discusses the influence of leaders on group dynamics and the issues of product innovation through teams, team dynamics, cross-border team collaboration, alignment of incentives, decision making, and negotiation under uncertain conditions.
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