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This Case Sucks: Beavis, Butt-head, and TV Content (A, B)
Authors: Useem, Jerry; Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1997
Beginning in 1992, "Beavis and Butt-head," an animated series on MTV about two uncivilized teenaged misfits, became both a runaway popular sensation and the symbol of a heated national debate about violent and inappropriate programming on television.
Exporting American Culture
Authors: Useem, Jerry; Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1995
A large entertainment company, extensively criticized for producing violent, offensive, and anti-social material, is considering whether to sell its material to a semi-illegal operation that is beaming satellite TV into Turkey. The opportunity raises many questions about cultural sensitivities and the concept of American cultural imperialism around the globe, especially in the traditional Muslim Middle East...
Managerial Duties and Business Law
Authors: Useem, Jerry; Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1995
Consists of excerpts from Principles of Corporate Governance, a set of legal guidelines that enumerates the principal duties of corporate managers and directors, including fiduciary duty, duty of care, and duty of fair dealing.
Kathryn McNeil (A, B)
Authors: Useem, Jerry; Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1994
Charles Foley, vice president of the computer retailing firm Sayer MicroWorld, must decide whether or not to fire his employee, Kathryn McNeil, a 37-year-old product manager who has been unable to work as many hours as her colleagues due to her status as a single parent of a six-year-old boy.
Conflict on a Trading Floor (A, B)
Authors: Useem, Jerry; Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1993
While the terms of a complex deal are being worked out, a junior salesperson realizes a top salesperson has taken advantage of the Poseidon executives' unfamiliarity with complex financial structures to build an outrageously high profit margin into the deal. The case gives students a chance to think about ethical dilemmas they are likely to face in the business world. How would they react in a situation in which they are under enormous outside pressure to do something that runs counter to their ethical values?
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