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- Alberta Energy Company
Eco-terrorism has plagued the Alberta oil and gas industry for several years. The CEO of Alberta Energy Corporation must decide whether or not his company participates in a RCMP orchestrated sting operation that might lead to the arrest of the terr...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Policy, Resource Extraction, Strategic Management
- Alcohol and Horseplay: Prank or Problem?
The president of a small, high-tech chemistry company discovered yellow powder on the floor and in the offices and laboratories as he entered work. He soon learned that the powder (fire extinguisher residue) had been dispersed when several employees...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
- Allegation of Sexual Harassment (A,B,C&D), An
Professor Stinson, a professor of management at a small, Christian college, was surprised when one of his students, Denise, spoke out in class, accusing the college swim coach of sexually harassing her. Professor Stinson did not know if he should re...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
- Astro Tech Fuel Systems
The case centres around the differences in time/goal perspectives between AstroTech's Marketing and Production Departments (line) and its Engineering and Quality Department (staff), headed by a manager who emphasized product quality over quantity an...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Organizational Behaviour
- Audit of ABC Inc., The
ABC's auditor has reported that it is probable that ABC made an error in preparing tax documentation that resulted in an underpayment of tax. Moreover, it appears unlikely that the tax authorities will notice or be able to recover the underpayment. ...
Disciplines: Accounting, Business - General, Business Ethics, Finance, Policy, Strategic Management
- Aung Sein: An Entrepreneur in Myanmar
Aung Sein built a machine that produced inexpensive disposable gloves, an item in short supply in Myanmar. Medical and laboratory workers needed large quantities of disposable gloves, but the government would not buy Aung Sein's gloves. In 1995, the...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, International Business, Marketing, Small Business
- Benjamin Moore & Co. Ltd. And the Government of British Columbia's Waste Paint Regulation
The Government of British Columbia has passed regulations relating to the disposal of waste paint products. Most leftover paint in the hands of consumers was considered a hazardous waste, and there was concern about the harmful effects the disposal ...
Disciplines: Business - General, Business Ethics, Economics, Government, Law, Leadership, Strategic Management
- Betaseron Decision, The (A&B)
When the FDA gave its approval to Betaseron217 it became the first and only drug found to reduce the attack rate of multiple sclerosis (MS). Because of its importance, the drug's approval was expedited by the FDA in only one year. As a result, Berle...
Disciplines: Business Ethics
- Bombardier et la responsabilité sociale du ski-doo
Jacques Ruelland en a eu assez du continuel geignement lointain des motoneiges traversant l’air mordant hivernal dans cette région jadis idyllique de campagnes et de forêts qu’on appelle les Laurentides, au nord de Montréal. Selon Ruelland, qui a dé...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management
- BRE-X: A Regulator's Nightmare
The Bre-X case study tells the story of one of Canada's most famous stock market scandals. From its beginning as a junior gold mining stock, by 1996 and early 1997 Bre-X was one of the most successful listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange. In a s...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Resource Extraction
- Cabriole
How do you know when a business is hopeless? How do you close it when hope is gone? Susan White's fitness wear firm, Cabriole, has lost $800,000 just in the past 5 years. Although customers have recognized the superior quality of Susan's designs and...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Policy, Small Business, Strategic Management
- Calox Machinery Corporation (A&B)
Mike Brown, the international sales manager for Calox, has terminated his New Zealand distributor, Glade Industries, but Glade is contesting the decision and threatening legal action. Calox management is divided on whether to stand by Brown or to re...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, International Business, Marketing
- Calvin Klein Inc. and the "Kiddie Porn" Ads (A&B)
Calvin Klein Inc. is a company with a history of controversial advertising, going back to 1980's ads with then 15-year-old actress Brooke Shields saying, "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins." In 1995, the company began a new series of ads for C...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Marketing
- Catalyst Paper Case Study in Chain of Custody Fibre Sourcing (2007)
Catalyst Paper is a leading producer of mechanical printing papers in North America. They also produce market kraft pulp and own Western Canada’s largest paper recycling facility. Catalyst have nearly 4,000 suppliers, spending approximately $1B annu...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Sustainability
- Challenger: The Path to Disaster (A, B & C)
Was the Challenger disaster of January 1986 inevitable? By tracing its historical antecedents and documenting the final launch decision-making process, we have an opportunity to discover how the tragedy resulted from dynamics that are endemic to eve...
Disciplines: Business - General, Business Ethics, Communications, Organizational Behaviour
- Colonial Traditions, Inc.
Alice Borden, sales manager for Colonial Traditions, Inc., must take a recommendation to her new boss and general manager, Phil Rigby, about how to handle the complaint of disgruntled customer Fred Townsend. Townsend has alleged that four of the six...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Marketing
- Columbia/HCA and the Medicare Fraud Scandal
The board of directors and top management of Columbia/HCA Corporation faced tough decisions following initiation of a massive antifraud investigation by the federal government in July 1997. At the time, Columbia/HCA was the largest health care compa...
Disciplines: Accounting, Business Ethics, Finance, Government, Policy, Strategic Management
- Conoco's Decision: The First Annual President's Award for Business Ethics
Conoco was a large, vertically integrated, global energy company committed to using its ethical culture as a strategic asset. To emphasize this commitment to business ethics as a core value, Conoco's president, Archie Dunham, established the Annual ...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Policy, Strategic Management
- Conscience or the Competitive Edge?
Olivia Jones, a manager for a British retailer, discovers on a buying trip to India how she and her firm are able to obtain cost advantages. Working conditions in her supplier's shop shock Jones, who is unsure she wants a career in which ''success''...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Policy, Strategic Management
- Data General and New York's Division of Substance Abuse Services (A&B)
(A) A New York DG sales representative was delighted to win the hotly contested bid for computer equipment for the State's Division of Substance Abuse Services. To close, he and his boss had developed a close relationship with the division's decisio...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Marketing
- Delta Electronics Corporation, The
The case focuses on the problems of Bob Allan, a promising young MBA, who joins a large national retail sales corporation and soon faces a personal career dilemma in reconciling his goals and values with the demands of the organization. Although he ...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Organizational Behaviour
- Does This Milkshake Taste Funny?
George Stein, a college student employed for the summer by Eastern Dairy, must decide if he is going to remove the filters from the plant's piping and thus allow the current production run of milkshake mix to become contaminated. This course of acti...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Organizational Behaviour
- Dow Corning and the Silicone Breast Implant Controversy
Keith R. McKennon, the new CEO of Dow Corning Corporation, must decide what to do next as the silicone breast implant controversy reaches crisis proportions. A government panel has recommended banning implants and company documents leaked to the pre...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Policy, Strategic Management
- Factory Direct Selling by Cironi's Sewing Center
This case analyzes the decision Toni Cironi must make over whether to conduct a factory-direct-to-consumer warehouse sale for Singer sewing machines. Cironi's prior experience with factory sales for Viking-White makes him wary of cannibalizing his h...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Policy, Small Business, Strategic Management
- General Dynamics in the Navajo Nation
This case focuses on Mike Enfield, General Manager of the General Dynamics operation on the Navajo Nation at Fort Defiance, Arizona, as he tries to extend the lease for another 20 years. Enfield has spent more than a year in this delicate process. H...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
- Gustavson Farm, The
In 1989, John Gustavson had to decide how to protect the crops on his 1,000-acre Minnesota farm from grasshoppers. Half his crops had been destroyed in 1988 and the source was land belonging to another farmer, who did not want to spray, begging the ...
Disciplines: Business Ethics
- Handguns at Wal-Mart
Public opinion has turned against handguns, which were used in more than half of the 22,500 homicides in the United States in 1991. Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer and a leading supplier of guns, had handgun sales of $29 million in 1992, wit...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Marketing
- Hbc Case Study in Ethical Sourcing (2007)
Hbc is Canada’s largest diversified general merchandise retailer, with over 580 retail locations and nearly 70,000 employees. Hbc has 1,600 vendors from which they currently source their private label and captive brands, most of which are located in...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Sustainability
- Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: RU 486
Hoechst-Roussel Management must decide whether to introduce RU 486 to the U.S. Market. The drug, a contraceptive/abortifacient, offers a significant business opportunity, but it goes against the company's stated policy of not marketing such drugs. R...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Marketing, Policy, Strategic Management
- I'm from the Government-And I'm Here to Help You
Jay and Leigh Carlos own and operate East Hampshire Homes, a small chain of homes for the mentally retarded. In this case, they are suddenly confronted by an inspector from OSHA who "aggressively" interprets government regulations to require East Ha...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Policy, Strategic Management
- Iroquois Container Corporation: Flagstone Operations (A&B)
Female employees in a subsidiary of a large, diversified, male-dominated organization had been subjected to a sexually hostile work environment. In spite of a sexual harassment lawsuit against the company which resulted in a $500,000 settlement bein...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Organizational Behaviour
- It May Be Legal, But It's Just Wrong!
K. William Chandler, a Memphis real estate appraiser, is alarmed at an increasingly prevalent practice--overstating the sales prices of new homes on official deed documents. Chandler and some others believe the reduced accuracy of ensuing appraisals...
Disciplines: Business Ethics
- It's a small world
You are Corporal Jane Fullick, a member of the local Primary Reserve Unit. In the working world, you are a sales associate with a furniture retail and leasing company. One day, a Regular Force Warrant Officer, who has been on Imposed Restriction for...
Disciplines: Business Ethics
- Johns-Manville and Riverwood-Schuller
Manville Corporation used bankruptcy law to manage thousands of lawsuits resulting from its decades as the world's largest producer of asbestos. As the firm prepares to emerge from bankruptcy in the form of two new corporations whose assets would be...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Policy, Strategic Management
- Johnson Controls and Protective Exclusion from the Workplace (A&B)
Johnson Controls, a leading manufacturer of automotive batteries, decided to exclude fertile women from production jobs because of possible hazards of lead exposure to the fetus. The employees' union filed a lawsuit, claiming the company's policy of...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management
- Karen Conners: Sexual Harassment or Cultural Differences
Karen Conners, age 35, a bright MBA student, is subjected to what she perceives to be harsh treatment by Ali Zahedi, a tenured associate professor and director of the MBA program. Zahedi threatens to make it impossible for Karen, who is also his gra...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management
- Karen's on her Mind
Sally Perkins' supervisor, Miriam Gunther is apparently having an affair with Sally's secretary, Karen. Gunther is spending a lot of time with Karen and wants to take her on a business trip. Although Gunther does not need any more secretarial assist...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
- Key Decision, A
This case describes an ethical dilemma I experienced as president of my fraternity. Ted, a close friend and fraternity brother, suffered from bipolar disorder. He required medication to avoid alternating periods of extreme hyperactivity and severe d...
Disciplines: Business Ethics
- Kohlberg Associates: Media Crisis
A senior partner in a health care consulting firm has to decide what to do in the face of accusations from the chief executive officer (CEO) of a major health care firm. The CEO, reading a prepared statement at a press conference, has accused the se...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Leadership
- Managing Sexual Harassment at Coors (A), (B)
In the (A) case, the Coors management team had to decide what, if any, disciplinary action was warranted for an employee accused of sexual harassment. A female production manager had become aware of various employee violations of company rules. An i...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Policy, Strategic Management
- Mansfield Minera’s Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility
This document reports the results of a field study that was conducted October 11-15, 2011. After a description of the context (company, area, and social and environmental factors) and of the field observations, the results are discussed in terms of ...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment, General Management, Leadership, Operations Management, Organizational Behaviour, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Manville Corporation, The
Manville is a diversified mining, timber, and manufacturing company with about 30,000 employees and 125 facilities. The company is the world’s largest producer of asbestos and asbestos-based products. The dangers of ingesting asbestos fibers began ...
Disciplines: Accounting, Business Ethics, Finance, Policy, Resource Extraction, Strategic Management
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