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The Siam Cement Group: Corporate Philosophy (A, B, C)
Authors: Khunaphante, Prompilai; Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
In the face of Thailand's 1990 cement shortage, managers at Siam Cement Co., Thailand's largest cement provider, must decide how to allocate available supply and whether to attempt to uphold government controlled prices among the company's agents. At issue in the overall design of a rationing system as well as how to handle several special requests...
Fiji Water and Corporate Social Responsibility
Authors: McMaster, James; Nowak, Jan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
This case analysis traces the establishment and subsequent operation of FIJI Water LLC and its bottling subsidiary, Natural Waters of Viti Limited. The case reviews the growth and market expansion of this highly successful company with the brand name 'FIJI Natural Artesian Water' ('FIJI Water').
Turning Gears Inc.
Author: Darden Business Roundtable
Product Type: Exercises
Source: Business Roundtable: Institute for Corporate Ethics
Publication Year: 2006
In this simulation, students take on the role of a product manager in the highly competitive toy industry and make a series of decisions through five integrated case studies based on real business scenarios.
Eli Lilly Meets Joseph Wesbecker: The Prozac Case
Authors: Anderson, S.; Finley, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2005
The case explores the interplay of law, public perception, special interests, and corporate culture in complex litigation.
A Team Production Theory of Corporate Law
Authors: Blair, Margaret; Stout, Lynn A.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Journal Articles
Source: Virginia Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 248-328.
Publication Year: 1999
Contemporary corporate scholarship generally assumes that the central economic problem addressed by corporation law is getting managers and directors to act as loyal agents for shareholders. We take issue with this approach and argue that the unique legal rules governing publicly-held corporations are instead designed primarily to address a different problem - the "team production" problem - that arises when a number of individuals must invest firm-specific resources to produce a nonseparable output...
Pfizer's Intellectual Property Rights Battles in China for Viagra
Authors: Fernando, R; Purkayastha, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
This case discusses the numerous intellectual property rights (IPR) litigations for Pfizer Inc in China with regard to Viagra, its blockbuster drug for erectile dysfunction.
The Path to Corporate Responsibility
Author: Zadek, Simon
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2004
Nike's tagline, "Just do it," is an inspirational call to action for the millions who wear the company's athletic gear. But in terms of corporate responsibility, Nike didn't always follow its own advice...
Commercial Bank of Africa
Authors: Chege, Gerald W.; Anzaya, Mbithe; Mullins, John; Low, Murray
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) was a medium-sized bank, incorporated in Kenya. The bank served the Kenyan corporate sector as well as international institutions and organizations with offices in Kenya. In late 2003 Mr. Isaac Awuondo, the Managing Director of CBA, was facing an information technology management dilemma...
H.J. Heinz Co.: The Administration of Policy (A, B, C)
Authors: Goodpaster, Kenneth; Post, Richard
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1981
Relates the April 1979 discovery of improper income transferal practices used at the H.J. Heinz Co. Background data on the company is presented, along with a detailed description of the organizational practices, the management incentive system, and the corporate ethical policy then in use...
Tempered Radicalism as a Strategy for Change
Authors: Scully, Maureen; CasePlace.org
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2004
Tempered radicalism is a strategy whereby organizational insiders use their leverage and knowledge of the organization to make just enough change on issues they care about but not so much change that they impair their effectiveness...
Ford Mexico: Bridging the Learning Divide
Authors: Garcia, P; Maguire Lewis, M; Bradberry, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: CIBER Case Collection
Publication Year: 2006
This case explores the changes that Ford made to its Mexican assembly operations from the early 1990s to the present. The case compares the different production systems, productivity and learning transfer at two Ford plants, located in different parts of Mexico.
Dr. Iqbal Surve at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Hill, Linda A.; Stecker, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self-described “medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur,” was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer “a gentler capitalism” that stressed putting people before profits, and talent development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans.
A.H. Robins, Inc.
Authors: Haskins, Mark E.; Gray, Rebecca
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 1998
This case provides an opportunity to explore various methods of accounts collection and accounting for estimated bad debts. The case is particularly suitable for first-semester financial accounting students on an MBA course.
Attention Shoppers: Executive Compensation at Kroger, Safeway, Costco, and Whole Foods
Authors: Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2008
This case helps students to understand in detail the components of executive compensation programs and to learn to evaluate which policies, structures and pay levels are appropriate, given company performance.
Managing Diversity at Spencer Owens & Co.
Authors: Ely, Robin J.; Vargas, Ingrid
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Spencer Owens & Co, a disguised consulting firm, focuses on domestic and international economic development. As an extension of the firm's commitment to social justice, 20 years ago, Spencer Owens management introduced an affirmative action hiring and promotion program...
Pick ‘n Pay – Rekindling Company Values
Author: Stockport, Gary J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Cape Town
Publication Year: 1999
This case study discusses a rekindling of a company's values within a retailing company that has grown from 4 stores and 50 employees in 1967 to some 265 stores and around 28,000 staff in 1998...
China Minmetals Corporation and Noranda Inc.
Author: Litvak, Isaiah A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The proposed takeover of Noranda Inc. (one of the biggest mineral players in the world) by the Chinese state owned enterprise, China Minmetals Corporation, was cause for Canadian government concern as it required some understanding about the workings and objectives of state owned enterprises. There was particular concern around the labour issues and human rights violations in China...
Siam Canadian Foods Co., Ltd.
Authors: Gleeve, Tom; Kennedy, John; Frost, Tony S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2002
The managing director and founder of Bangkok-based Siam Canadian Foods Co., Ltd., was considering the emerging business opportunities in neighboring Burma...
Managing Diversity at Cityside Financial Services
Authors: Ely, Robin J.; Vargas, Ingrid
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Cityside Financial Services, a disguised consumer bank, serves both a largely African-American urban community and a more affluent, predominantly white clientele. To match the gender and racial makeup of its staff to that of its customers, Cityside's sales division implemented an aggressive affirmative action hiring program...
MAS Holdings: Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility in the Apparel Industry
Authors: Story, J; Watson, N
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2006
MAS Holdings is a family-owned manufacturer of women's apparel, founded by three brothers who have built the business into a US$570 million business. The case is about using corporate social responsibility as a strategic tool in global competition.
McDonald's Corp.
Authors: Upton, David; Margolis, Joshua
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1996
McDonald's has over many years built an operating strategy based on consistency and quality through a limited product range. Competitive forces have drawn the company into a much wider variety of foods and services in order to maintain growth...
Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A, B, C)
Authors: Quelch, John A.; Chen, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
On January 3, 2008, Intel resigned from the "One Laptop Per Child" program (OLPC) and announced that it would no longer be partnering with the nonprofit organization. According to Intel, the move was a result of pressure it received from OLPC to stop marketing its own low-cost Windows-based laptop, the Classmate.
GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project
Authors: Bartlett, Christopher A.; Hall, Brian J.; Bennett, Nicole
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
This case follows GE Transportation as it launches a series of groundbreaking, green products--from the Evolution Locomotive to the Hybrid Locomotive. It discusses growth strategy, the implementation of innovation, and environmentally-focused projects driven from the corporate level down to individual business units.
Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners
Author: Baker, Malcolm P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP), a San Francisco-based bank focusing on emerging growth companies, is considering its strategy in the context of regulatory, competitive, and legal changes...
Everyday High Health Costs; One Giant's Struggle Is Corporate America's, Too
Author: Abelson, Reed
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
Back in the spring, amid relentless criticism that Wal-Mart Stores was failing to provide affordable health care to employees, executives at the company decided to take a detailed look at its benefits. Wal-Mart knew its health costs were spiraling upward out of control, said M. Susan Chambers, the senior executive who led the initiative, but it was surprised to discover that its critics had a point...
Nopane Advertising Strategy
Author: Bell, David E.
Product Type:
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1993
Nopane is a proprietary drug that sells in much of the United States. It faces substantial competition. The brand manager is undertaking an experiment to determine whether ad copy should be emotional-based or rational-based...
Beta Golf
Authors: Sahlman, William; Roberts, Michael J.; Katz, Lawrence
Product Type: Cases
Source: Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship @ Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
The Beta Group is a technology incubator in Menlo Park, CA that has successfully built a portfolio of businesses in the medical, consumer products, and industrial technology sectors by systematically matching proprietary technologies to unmet market needs...
Nestle: Singled Out Again and Again
Author: Saunders, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: Loughborough University; De Montfort University
Publication Year: 1996
This case outlines the twenty years of boycott and social protests against Nestle for its promotion and distribution of infant formula in third world countries. The case presents both sides of the issue as Nestle continues to stand behind its manufacturing and distribution of the formula on grounds of ‘saving a child's life'...
Google, Inc.
Authors: Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Herman, Kerry
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats they pose to Yahoo, Microsoft, and eBay. Asks what Google should do next...
Financial Reporting Problems at Molex, Inc. (A, B, C)
Author: Healy, Paul M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Following an accounting problem at Molex, the firm's auditors request changes in management.
When Earnings Management Becomes Cooking the Books
Author: Millstein, Ira
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Financial Times
Publication Year: 2005
"Earnings management" includes both legitimate and less than legitimate efforts to smooth earnings over accounting periods or to achieve a forecasted result. The line between appropriate earnings management techniques and "cooking the books" can be a blurry one...
Google, Inc.: "Figuring Out How to Deal with China"
Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 2007
Would it be possible for Google to enter China without violating its informal corporate motto, 'don't be evil?'
Treading on that Fine Line?: Caselets in Marketing Ethics
Authors: Syeda, I.; Purkayastha, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2008
This is a series of three caselets featuring some specific incidents in three companies that led to some ethical concerns being raised against them.
Adam Baxter Co./Local 190 Contract Negotiation
Authors: Medvec, Victoria; McGinn, Kathleen L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1996
This case helps students to develop an understanding of the complexities of management/labor relations; to develop negotiation skills in ongoing team negotiations over time.
The Big Mac Undergoes a Healthy Makeover
Author: Hota, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2008
The case discusses how McDonald's has repositioned itself to address lifestyle changes that consumers are making, as the widespread concern over obesity has increased.
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Authors: Bohmer, Richard M.J.; Ferlins, Erika M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
In 2000, Dr. Gary Kaplan became CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The hospital was facing significant challenges: It was losing money for the first time in its history, staff morale had plummeted, and area hospitals presented ardent competition. Considerable change was imminent...
Firestone East Africa (1969) Limited (Now Sameer Africa Limited)
Author: Lewa, Peter M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
Mr. Naushad Noorali Merali, chairman of Firestone East Africa (1969) Limited, had never been known to shy away from any business challenge. He firmly believed that nothing was impossible once a person put his or her mind to solve it. He looked at any business challenge as an opportunity to learn from, whether the outcome was a success or a failure. In January, 1993 the government of Kenya announced that it had put in place a framework for the full liberalization of the economy...
Internal Control over Financial Reporting – Guidance for Small Companies, Volume I Executive Summary
Author: Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Publication Year: 2006
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in 1992 issued Internal Control- Integrated Framework to help businesses and other entities assess and enhance their internal control systems...
Interstate Transport, Inc.
Author: Sack, Robert J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Issues in Accounting Education, a publication of the American Accounting Association
Publication Year: 2002
This case asks student teams to make a number of accounting decisions in the context of a single company. The decisions address the allowance for bad debts, inventory valuation, depreciation lives and methods, contingency provisions, and accounting for off-book entities...
Cradle-to-Cradle Design at Herman Miller
Authors: Lee, Deishin; Bony, Lionel
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Herman Miller decided to implement a set of environmentally friendly product development guidelines. The case shows that by scrutinizing processes through an environmental lens, the company also improved its performance.
Surprise Notes on the Web - A Professor's Dilemma (A, B)
Authors: Cawset, T.F.; Stevens, R.F.
Product Type: Cases
Source: NACRA, North American Case Research Journal / The Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 2006
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 assigned case on the web.
Fisher College of Business
Author:
Product Type: Partner Pages
Source:
Publication Year: 2010
General Motors: Acting Strategically?
Authors: Conklin, David W.; Cadieux, Danielle
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
General Motors had a history of bold strategies in a wide variety of areas, including the creation of Saturn, the development of global operations and the formation of strategic alliances with Fiat, SAIC and Daewoo...
McKay Nursery Company (A, B)
Authors: Meyer, Kathleen A.; Pochop, Laura; Weiss, Stephanie
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Business Enterprise Trust
Publication Year: 1996
McKay Nursery Co., founded in 1897 in Waterloo, WI, had a longstanding history of commitment to employees. The close-knit organization was a pioneer in the agricultural industry of several employee-friendly policies. But in the early 1980s, as McKay's owners grew older and senior management neared retirement, the next generation of managers feared for the future of the profitable, debt-free company...
Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. (A1, A2, A3, B, D)
Author: Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2003
The CEO of Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. must decide what to do when he receives information that the company's supply of apple juice concentrate may be adulterated...
Royal Ahold NV
Authors: Gupta, V.; Indu, P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
The case highlights the role of USF's management in the accounting fraud who intentionally booked higher promotional allowances to show higher income in order to get extra bonuses. It also examines the reasons that led to accounting frauds such as poor financial and accounting controls, weak internal control system of the parent company over its subsidiaries, lack of transparency in accounting procedures and linking of management's compensation with the achievement of revenue targets.
In the Shadow of the City
Authors: Reed, James; Richardson, Nicholas; Donnellon, Anne
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1990
Traces the history of a collaborative effort to create an organization to manage a major international development project in the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Focuses on a serious set of disagreements which develops several months into the project between the two principals, an Ethiopian woman who founded the project and a British entrepreneur who is the coordinator of the donor consortium...
Restoring Trust at WorldCom
Authors: Lorsch, Jay W.; Robertson, Ashley C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2004
Examines the changes in corporate governance at WorldCom/MCI as proposed by the company's court-appointed corporate monitor, Richard Breeden...
Infosys Technologies Ltd: Accounting for Human Capital (A2)
Authors: Cohen, Jacob; Hawkins, David F.; Raver, Jenifer
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2007
The case highlights the issue of human capital accounting. Corporations regularly argue that employees are their most valuable asset. The case explores the methods for valuing this human capital asset and highlights arguments for and against the practice of capitalising it on companies' balance sheets.
Tiffany & Co: A Case Study in Diamonds and Social Responsibility
Author: Zalcman, Miriam
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge @ Wharton
Publication Year: 2004
Michael J. Kowalski, chairman and CEO of Tiffany & Co., the world-famous luxury jeweler and specialty retailer, wasted no time correcting what he called a "misperception" about his company's products...
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