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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- MBA Polymers, Inc.
In the early morning hours of October 26, 2000, MBA Polymers experienced a major setback after an explosion and fire killed one worker and sent plumes of toxic smoke into the air, forcing Richmond, California area schools to shut down, businesses to...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Policy, Small Business, Strategic Management
- Meritas Mutual Funds
In October 2002, Gary Hawton, the CEO of Meritas Financial Inc., a new Canadian socially responsible mutual fund company, was considering what to do about investment dealer requests for promotional giveaways. Hawton has instituted a policy of not pr...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Marketing, Policy, Strategic Management
- New World Computing, Inc.
The newly hired general manager of New World Computing joined the firm to exploit its proven software systems, marketing them to hospitals and medical schools. Instead, she finds that none of the products is quite market-ready, all of the customers ...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Policy, Small Business, Strategic Management
- Nucor Corporation and Worker Safety Issues (A&B)
In less than three decades, Nucor Corporation has risen from near bankruptcy to become the fourth largest steel producer in the United States. Nucor is well known for its effective use of innovative steel-making technologies, a unique management sty...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour, Policy, Strategic Management
- Odwalla, Inc., and the E. Coli Outbreak (A,B&C)
Odwalla, Inc., a leading producer of fresh fruit and vegetable-based beverages in the Western United States and Canada, was faced with a crisis in October 1996 when it learned that an outbreak of E. coli poisoning had apparently been caused by its u...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Policy, Strategic Management
- Prominent Dr. Rombach, The
John Cannon is an American expatriate and general manager of International Medical Laboratories' (IML) German subsidiary. During a sales visit, he is introduced to Dr. Hans Rombach, a cardiovascular surgeon and possibly the most prominent surgeon in...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, International Business, Policy, Strategic Management
- Surprise Notes on the Web-A Professor's Dilemma (A&B)
As part of a business policy course, Professor Stevens and two colleagues have assigned a case to be analyzed and handed in. A week later, Professor Stevens, to his dismay, has two of his students tell him that they have found a case analysis of the...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour, Policy, Strategic Management
- Thorn in the Elephant's Side: The Seattle Mennonite Church vs. Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., The
The Seattle Mennonite Church, owners of stock in Freeport McMoRan, Copper & Gold, Inc. (FCX), was concerned about FCX's mining operations in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The company, in partnership with the Indonesian government, operated the world's larg...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Policy, Resource Extraction, Strategic Management
- Yahoo!, Hate Groups, Censorship and the Internet
Nazi memorabilia was available for sale on Yahoo!’s on-line auction site. A boycott of Yahoo! sites was organized by French activists. They threatened the company with litigation in France if the Nazi objects were not removed for the Yahoo! (U.S.) a...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, International Business, Policy, Strategic Management
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