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Great Lakes: Great Decisions (A)
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
One of the few remaining producers of lead additives must decide whether to continue producing them for use abroad.
South African Mining and Asbestos-Related Diseases (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Publishing Company
Publication Year: 2006
These cases explain the history of asbestos mining in South Africa, the complicated relationship between the multinational companies and an apartheid and post-apartheid South African regime, and details the struggles and issues that many ARD-afflicted South Africans faced in bringing the multinationals to justice and seeking redress.
ExxonMobil and the Chad/Cameroon Pipeline (A, B)
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2003
This case presents the dilemma of ExxonMobil as it factors in the ethics issues related to the environment and cultural differences in deciding whether to proceed with building a pipeline in Chad and Cameroon, two of the poorest and most corrupt developing countries in West Africa.
Gender Issues in the Workplace
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Manthy, Lynn; Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
Gender in the workplace: is it still an issue? While it is increasingly easier in the early twenty-first century for women to work, manage, and take positions of high responsibility in American business, some issues and difficulties still remain...
What Can a Mosquito Do to an Elephant? (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Painter-Morland, Mollie; Werhane, Patricia H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
In 1999, the tiny African country of Lesotho was considering the almost unthinkable: mounting a criminal prosecution against multinational companies allegedly involved in bribery while working on the extensive Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
Cynthia Cooper and Worldcom (A)
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
In late May of 2002, Cynthia Cooper, the 38-year old Vice President of Internal Audit for WorldCom, the second largest telecommunications company in the United States behind American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T), faced an extremely difficult decision...
Run, Inc.
Authors: Sack, Robert J.; Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Publishing Company
Publication Year: 2006
Martin Field, the new controller for the automobile replacement-parts company Run, Inc., is not comfortable with a large write-off that the family-owned company plans to make in 2004. Fairly new to the position, Field had not prepared the financial information for the annual report and he hesitated to alert anyone about the balance between the receivables and inventory items. Although external auditors give Run, Inc.'s financials a clean bill of health, Field was still not comfortable and must decide what steps to take.
Caffeine with a Conscience
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Wicks, Andrew C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
Is "Fair Trade" really fair? This case examines the issues through the eyes of one coffee-drinker who has specifically chosen her caffeine venue because of the Fair Trade designation.
Google and Internet Privacy
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Harris, Jared; Denoncour, Joan; Heffernan, Edward; Koranne, Rahul; Marxen, Jake; Neu, Thomas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Publishing
Publication Year: 2009
Based on their use of a shared computer and the Internet ads that keep popping up, two co-workers suspect that another co-worker is HIV-positive or has AIDS.
HealthSouth (A, B, C)
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.; Collier, Cindy Eddins
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2005
The HealthSouth asset management employee's suspicions were correct. Indeed, management at HealthSouth had been 'cooking the books' for several years to show a profit and thus continue to endear the company to Wall Street...
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