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- A Business Case for Green Buildings in Canada
The purpose of this document is to clearly and holistically define the state of the green building industry in Canada, and to provide a basis for recognizing the many unique and tangible benefits a green building might offer, as well as the challeng...
Disciplines: Business - General, Government
- A Contract By Any Other Name
You are Tom Ambler, a civilian supervisor with Base Transport. You manage a mixed selection of unionized civilian drivers and Primary Reserve drivers serving on Class B contracts. During the Base Commander’s conference, concern over the end of fisca...
Disciplines: Government, Human Resource Management
- A Difficult Hiring Decision at Central Bank
The case is designed to encourage readers to select among three highly qualified candidates for an important managerial position. In doing so, readers are required to establish the set of criteria that they believe should be taken into account when ...
Disciplines: Human Resource Management
- A feeling like no other
You are Private Williams and your infantry platoon is advancing towards a village within insurgent controlled territory. You and your buddy, Roley, are on point when the platoon is caught in an ambush. Roley is seriously wounded and cannot be moved ...
Disciplines: Government, Human Resource Management
- A Few Tips About Corruption in the U.S.
This case presents the situation faced by three people in the United States as they exit a restaurant in California. They are discussing whether tipping is a form of private sector corruption, similar to public sector corruption that pervades many c...
Disciplines: General Management, International Business
- A Minor Assignment
This case is designed to stimulate students' reflections on ethics. The context of the case is a familiar one to most students (plagiarism on a student essay); it therefore allows them to experience more personally the range of emotions and perspect...
Disciplines: Human Resource Management
- A Minor Assignment: Role of Lydia Katz
In this role play supplement to A Minor Assignment, product 9B05C006, Professor Lydia Katz catches a student plagiarizing and must decide what to do about it. She calls a meeting with the student.
Disciplines: Human Resource Management
- A Minor Assignment: Role of Rob Thatcher
Rob Thatcher is a student in an honours business administration program. He copies and pastes some text from a web site into an essay. He is under time pressure and does not consider this assignment important and most likely will not be read. This i...
Disciplines: Human Resource Management
- Accounting at Biovail
Biovail was a large international pharmaceutical company with reported revenues of $788 million. Banc of America has issued a research report which indicates that Biovail Corporation's financial statements "raised a number of issues that warrant cau...
Disciplines: Accounting
- Acme Hardware
An auditor is planning the audit of a new client, Acme Hardware. For preparing the audit plan, he becomes aware of the possibility that certain managers might be using accounting flexibility to aid them in qualifying for incentive bonuses based on p...
Disciplines: Accounting
- 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
- Alberta Theatre Projects: Governance in Times of Crisis
Alberta Theatre Projects (ATP) was a performing arts non-profit organization. It enjoyed a strong brand recognition as a socially liberal organization in a community with strong conservative values. With funding from the Alberta Performing Arts Stab...
Disciplines: General 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
- An Indiscreet Conversation on Hiring
A group of four friends, all married men and in their late 20s, meet for coffee in a major city. One of the men has received a job application from a young woman he considers to be a stellar candidate for his job opening. The discussion turns into a...
Disciplines: Human Resource Management
- Anti-terrorism Law Forces Business To Scrutinize All Dealings
Canada's new anti-terrorism law, Bill C-36, will have a significant impact on the business community. While the bill vastly increases the government's powers to investigate and prosecute terrorists, it also puts the onus squarely on business to scru...
Disciplines: General Management
- 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
- Aurora Cultural Centre
The Aurora Cultural Centre's mission is to foster a more just community, globally and locally, by providing community education on diversity and cross-cultural awareness, global development issues, and immigration/refugee issues. The centre also pro...
Disciplines: General Management
- AWC Inc.: The Ventilation Dilemma
Alex MacDonald, president and owner of AWC Inc., a southwestern Ontario aluminum fabrication operation, is confronted with a decision of whether to install ventilation equipment that will negatively affect the financial performance of the company, p...
Disciplines: General Management
- BC Metal (A)
The president of a metal products manufacturer and distributor is informed that the company controller is having an affair with another employee who is married to the general manager of production. The president is in the process of selling the comp...
Disciplines: Human Resource Management
- BC Metal (B)
Supplement to product 9B07C020, BC Metal (A)
Disciplines: Human Resource Management
- BC Metal (C)
Supplement to product 9B07C020, BC Metal (A)
Disciplines: Human Resource Management
- BC Metal (D)
Supplement to product 9B07C020, BC Metal (A)
Disciplines: Human Resource Management
- 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
- Biovail Corporation (A)
Biovail Corporation, a large pharmaceutical company, recently had its stock downgraded by a well known pharmaceutical analyst and a number of other analysts were also scrutinizing the company. The outcome was not favorable, as Biovail's acquisition ...
Disciplines: Finance
- Biovail Corporation (B)
In this supplement to Biovail Corporation (A), product 9B04N007, an investor in Biovail made the decision to sell her stock in the company based on published reports from a well known pharmaceutical analyst. She later finds out that this analyst had...
Disciplines: Finance
- Blue Ridge Spain
Blue Ridge Spain was a joint venture established between a well-known American fast food chain and an "old guard" family-run agricultural company that was seeking to diversify in the wake of Spain's entry into the European Union. The European Region...
Disciplines: General Management, International Business
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