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Preparing to be the Stakeholder Relationship Manager: The Case of Wal-Mart
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2007
This Teaching Module now includes a Teaching Note for Faculty. The job description for Wal-Mart's recently created "Senior Director for Stakeholder Management" seeks "an innovative, out-of-the-box thinker" who can work on the company's commitments in areas including labor and wages, health care, product sourcing, and the environment. Are business schools today training leaders who could fill this role?
The Promise and Perils of Globalization: The Case of Nike
Author: Locke, Richard
Product Type: Cases
Source: This case is published as a chapter, “The Promise and Perils of Globalization: The Case of Nike”, in the book Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future.
Publication Year: 2003
This case study of Nike Inc. traces the evolution of Nike's policies and practices vis-à-vis labor and environmental standards. The case illustrates the company's evolving definition and commitment to good corporate citizenship and the continuing controversy surrounding the company's practices in this arena.
Accounting Fraud at WorldCom
Authors: Kaplan, Robert S.; Kiron, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2004
The case provides sufficient detail to allow for a full discussion of the pressures that lead executives and managers to "cook the books," the boundary between earnings smoothing or management and fraudulent reporting, the role for internal control systems and internal audit to prevent or rapidly detect accounting fraud, the expectations about governance processes performed by external auditors and the board of directors, and the pressure and consequences when middle managers follow orders that they know are wrong...
IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge (A, B)
Authors: Bartlett, Christopher A.; Dessain, Vincent; Sjoman, Anders
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance of a sourcing strategy based on its close relationships with suppliers in developing countries...
Google's HR Practices: A Strategic Edge?
Authors: John, D.; Girija, P.; Nightingale, F
Product Type: Cases
Source: IBS Research Center
Publication Year: 2008
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This case helps students: (1) to analyze how employees help a company in differentiating itself from its competitors in knowledge-based industries; (2) to analyze how companies attract the best-knowledge workers and retain employees in a competitive environment; (3) to analyze the innovative HR practices and the 'Best Place to Work For' culture at Google; and (4) to analyze the future implications of Google's HR practices in the long run.
Access Teaching Module
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 11266 views
Access, to new markets and materials, to new sources of labor and information, to new communities and new ideas, is crucial to business, and can also serve as a way to spread the benefits of economic development to people and their communities. How does access bring value to business and society and can it also be used to reduce the downside of globalization?
Giving Voice to Values Curriculum: Home Page
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Syllabi
Source: Giving Voice to Values Curriculum Initiative
Publication Year: 2009
Drawing on both the actual experiences of business practitioners as well as cutting edge social science and management research, Giving Voice to Values fills a long-standing and critical gap in business education by expanding the definition of what it means to teach business ethics.
Phar-Mor, Inc.: Accounting Fraud, Litigation, and Auditor Liability
Authors: Buckless, Frank A.; Glover, Steven M.; Prawitt, Douglas F.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Prentice Hall
Publication Year: 2000
This case discusses the accounting fraud that was successfully crafted by the upper management tier of Phar-Mor, Inc. Many upper level managers received prison sentences, and numerous legal claims against the retail company and its auditors, Coopers & Lybrand LLP, were made, the majority of which were settled out of court...
Advertising Ethics: Reasons, Rationalizations, Biases, and Heuristics
Author: Drumwright, Minette E.
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2005
Advertising practitioners often have difficulty seeing ethical issues or have a distortion of moral vision that has been referred to as “moral myopia” by researchers. Even if they do see ethical issues, they often have difficulty talking about them, a condition referred to as “moral muteness.”
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Product Type: Featured Users
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
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