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Olympus and the Whistleblower President
Authors: Williams, Christopher; Takeshita, Seijiro
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The newly-appointed president and chief operating officer of Olympus Corporation of Japan was about to attend an emergency board meeting and needed to decide on a course of action. Since assuming the job in April 2011, the president had discovered evidence of corporate fraud on a large scale...
In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
Authors: Duhigg, Charles; Barboza, David
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2012
In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. However, the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions...
From In-house to Joint R&D: The Way Forward for Nokia Denmark
Authors: Larsen, Marcus Moller; Pedersen, Torben
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Motivated by the need to release pressure on its in-house capacity, Nokia Denmark decided to outsource certain product development projects to the Taiwanese company Foxconn in a joint R&D setup. However, by 2010, the rising pressure from the corporate headquarters and the competitive market environment on products and costs, Nokia Denmark thus faced a central question on how to proceed with the R&D setup...
Foxconn Technology Group (A, B)
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Serafeim, George; Cheng, Beiting
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
The case focuses on the challenges that Foxconn faced after a series of suicides took place at its plants.
Canadian Solar
Authors: Beamish, Paul W.; Mitchell, Jordan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
In late September 2009, the CEO of the Nasdaq-traded solar cell and module manufacturer, Canadian Solar, was at an inflection point in the formation of its international strategy. Canadian Solar had decided to focus on 10 major markets in the next two to three years where strong renewable policies existed. Students are challenged with deciding if any changes to the company's global strategy are necessary.
Hewlett-Packard Company: CEO Succession in 2010
Authors: Lorsch, Jay W.; Palepu, Krishna G.; Barton, Melissa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Mark Hurd resigned as the CEO of Hewlett Packard in 2010 after the board discovered that he had misfiled expense reports and paid an H.P. contractor for unsubstantiated work. Discusses H.P.'s recent scandals and highlights the balance needed between ethical and strategic considerations in choosing executive leadership.
Washout: The Founders' Tale and Investors' Tale
Authors: Goldberg, Lena G.; Carr, Chad M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
The competing narratives of the founders of Alantec, Inc. and the venture capitalists who funded the company are explored in the context of Kalashian v. Advent VI Ltd. a California Superior Court case. Following the company's sale the founders sued, alleging that the venture capitalists had committed fraud and breached their fiduciary duties as controlling shareholders of Alantec. The case presents actual excerpts from the trial briefs of both the founders and the venture capitalists, and presents competing views on how and why the dilution occurred.
Employee Ownership and the Entrepreneurial Spirit: The Case of HCSS
Authors: Roche, Olivier; Shipper, Frank
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University
Publication Year: 2010
Heavy Construction Systems Specialists, Inc. [HCSS] designs and sells hi-tech software to the heavy/highway construction industry. The case describes a unique corporate culture that has made HCSS a business success in a highly competitive industry.
Managing Yourself: Keeping Your Colleagues Honest
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2010
Jonathan has a new job. Just promoted from the accounting group at headquarters, he is now the controller for a regional sales unit of a consumer electronics company. However, when the quarterly numbers come due, he realizes that the next quarter’s sales are being reported early to boost bonus compensation.
Apple, Inc.
Authors: Kim, Paul; Lee, Jon; Lee, Steve
Product Type: Cases
Source: Arthur W. Page Society
Publication Year: 2010
This case investigates the health of Steve Jobs and the subsequent impact it has had on Apple and its future.
Broad Air Conditioning and Environmental Protection
Authors: He, Zhi Yi; Sun, Meng; Beamish, Paul W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Broad Air Conditioning is a Chinese company with a proactive environmental attitude, but suffering from deteriorating financial results. The company founder and chief executive officer must decide whether to start producing electricity powered air conditioners to improve its financial results easily or stick to its ideal and only manufacture machines powered by heat...
Jieliang Phone Home! (A, B, C)
Authors: Shih, Willy; Bernstein, Ethan S.; Bilimoria, Nina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have discovered many ways to increase their performance. The case frames the role of the general manager in setting up work structures and compensation systems in a very traditional and explicit setting, one where linkages should be clearly visible yet assumptions are often deeply buried and implicit.
Brummer and the bracNet Investment
Authors: Ebrahim, Alnoor; Pirson, Michael; Mangas, Patricia
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
bracNet, a for-profit/nonprofit partnership, aims to establish Internet connectivity throughout Bangladesh. Should Patrik Brummer invest again, this time in a rural roll-out, which may have lower financial returns but greater social returns?
CDI (A)
Authors: Kayser, O.; Kazakova, E.; Santos, Felipe
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2009
Case (A) describes how Rodrigo Baggio in 1995 developed the first computer and citizen schools in Brazil to address the problem of digital exclusion. By 2005 the CDI network included almost 1,000 schools throughout Latin America. However, with the rapid growth came quality control problems and organisational complexities. In addition there was increasing competition from the government and from the private sector. Rodrigo and his team needed to re-assess the positioning of CDI while grappling with the complexities of managing a large network-based organisation. The key goal is to help students understand how to apply the concept of strategy to a social sector organisation. The learning applies to any values-based organisation that needs to identify its distinctive assets and capabilities for the strategy-making process. The take-away is how to re-define the market positioning and adopt measures that reinforce the organisation's distinctive assets, and avoid erosion of its core values. Secondary goals are to: (1) discuss social entrepreneur challenges (business model innovation, scaling up strategy); (2) develop sensitivity to the need to use financial and accounting information for the strategy development process in social-oriented organisations; and (3) redefine mission to avoid overlap with government and private-sector programmes (see case B).
IBM
Author: Marquis, Christopher
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This case describes the conception, development and implementation of the Corporate Services Corps, an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees.
Microsoft's Unlimited Potential
Authors: Rangan, V. Kasturi; Bell, Marie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2009
This case provides insight into how a large global corporation can address a base of the pyramid markets in developing countries, through commercial and citizenship activities.
Unauthorized Disclosure: Hewlett-Packard's Secret Surveillance of Directors and Journalist
Authors: Lawrence, Anne T.; Harris, Randall D.; Baack, Sally
Product Type: Cases
Source: Case Research Journal 28(1): Winter
Publication Year: 2008
In 2006, HP admitted it had hired outside investigators to spy on members of its board of directors and journalists to uncover the source of several leaks of confidential board deliberations. The investigators used methods, including "pretexting" (using an assumed identity in order to access others’ telephone records) which were possibly illegal and almost certainly unethical.
Phil Chan (A, B)
Authors: Beamish, Paul W.; Schaan, Jean-Louis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The case deals with a scam that has been run out of Nigeria since 1990. In it, foreign companies are approached for their assistance in facilitating an international transfer of funds in order to receive a very large but unearned commission...
Open Source: Salvation or Suicide?
Authors: Wilson, Scott; Kambil, Ajit; Schwartz, Jonathan; Levin, Eric; Pisano, Gary P. ; Bevilacqua, Michael J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2008
Amp Up, a wildly popular electronic-music game, is the brainchild of KMS's cherished programmers, who now spend their time trying to keep customers dazzled with upgrades. But a couple of start-ups have ripped off the idea using their own code - which is open source. Now they're demanding that KMS float with the rising tide and join the open-source community. How could the company make money without its IP? And why should it try?
e-Waste: West Africa Continues to Drown in the Rich World's Obsolete Electronics
Author: Consumers International
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Interviews
Source: Consumers International
Publication Year: 2008
Every month, hundreds of tons of obsolete computers, televisions and other household consumer electronics are arriving at ports in Ghana and Nigeria.
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.
Restructuring Siemens: Will It Pay Off?
Authors: Sathe, S.; Chaganty, S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: IBS Research Center
Publication Year: 2008
German Engineering Conglomerate Siemens AG had always been an inefficient, a bloated and highly bureaucratic organisation. While often criticised for delivering lower than optimal performance, the engineering giant gravely suffered when it became embroiled in one of the biggest corruption scandals in German corporate history.
On October 2007, the newly-appointed CEO Peter Loescher (Loescher), embarked upon the difficult tasks of rebuilding the company's sullied image and making it more efficient and competitive. To achieve these, he undertook the most intensive corporate restructuring in the company's history.
Microsoft: Bringing Technology to the Aging Population
Authors: Zollo, Maurizio; Crawford, Robert J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: European Academy of Business in Society
Publication Year: 2008
In fall, 2001 Rob Sinclair and Bonnie Kearney were waiting outside the office of Bill Gates, the Chairman and founder of Microsoft.
IBM in China: Responding to a Government's Social Initiatives
Author: White, Steven
Product Type: Cases
Source: China Europe International Business School
Publication Year: 2008
The Chinese government introduced two broad social development initiatives in 2006.
IBM in China: Designing a Stakeholder Assessment Team
Author: White, Steven
Product Type: Cases
Source: China Europe International Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Henry Chow, the Head of IBM Greater China, saw a need for a more systematic approach to assessing how each major group of stakeholders saw IBM Greater China, and its performance as a corporate citizen (under the broad rubric of corporate social responsibility).
Dell on Dell
Author: Dell
Product Type: Cases
Source: Dell Inc.
Publication Year: 2007
Dell IT cuts energy costs by up to 40 percent with a new power management plan.
The Cost of Saving Energy
Author: Tarquinio, J. Alex
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2007
New York City's extensive mass-transit system means lower auto emissions, but the city's residential buildings are less energy-efficient than those in many other places.
Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet
Author: Magid, Larry
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2007
The power consumed by common electric devices - even when they're not in use - can quickly add up.
Efficiency, Not Just Alternatives, Is Promoted as an Energy Saver
Author: Wald, Matthew L.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2007
Even supporters of alternative energy agree that the easiest way to cut carbon emissions and air pollution is to focus more on efficiency.
Ten People Who Could Change The World
Author:
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Forbes.com
Publication Year: 2007
What does it take to produce a world-changing breakthrough? Humans try again and again to arrive at a formula...
Computone Corporation: An Instructional Case in Earnings Management and Revenue Recognition
Authors: Stallworth, H. Lynn; Braun, Robert L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: American Accounting Association
Publication Year: 2007
This case demonstrates how the company employed earnings manipulation techniques that resulted in violations of GAAP through improper revenue recognition...
Governing Sumida Corp.
Authors: Egawa, Masako; Toyama, Chisato; Bettcher, Kim Eric; Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Sumida was the first Japanese company to adopt a new U.S.-inspired “committee system” of governance as permitted under legal changes that took effect in 2003. One of the main objectives of the change was to attract investors' attention and boost their confidence. Board members must assess the company's governance system and decide whether further changes are needed.
Using Case Materials to Research Professional Standards on Revenue Recognition Issues
Authors: Krishnan, Sudha; Mintz, Steven M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: American Accounting Association
Publication Year: 2007
MicroStrategy, Inc. is a software company listed on NASDAQ. Since the company came out with an initial public offering (IPO) in June 1998, it has always been identified as a successful, growing company with positive net income. On March 20, 2000, the company announced that it would restate its financial statements for all years since its IPO. This announcement caused its share price to fall 60 percent in one day...
Building the Civilized Workplace
Author: Sutton, Robert
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Lars Dalgaard is CEO and cofounder of SuccessFactors, one of the world's fastest-growing software companies—and the fastest with revenues over $30 million. Dalgaard attributes his company's success to an unusual factor: employing no jerks. That's right—no jerks.
Sony's Battery Recall Fiasco
Authors: Fernando, R; Sengupta, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
This case is about the worldwide recall of lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony Energy Devices Corporation, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
Sanyo's 'Think Gaia' Vision and Turnaround Efforts
Authors: George, S; Govind, S; Prasad, N
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
Sanyo is a Japan-based company with a presence in diverse businesses including consumer electronics, batteries, and semiconductors. The case describes the company's 'Think GAIA' vision, the objectives of the vision, and the actions of the company in its efforts to effect a turnaround.
Blizzard v. bnetd.org (A, B)
Authors: Viard, V. Brian; Yatsko, Pamela
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2006
Personal computer game maker Blizzard filed a lawsuit in 2002 against the developers of the bnetd project. Via reverse engineering of Blizzard's software, the bnetd developers created and disseminated a free open source software program that mimicked the Battle.net playing experience. Blizzard charged the bnetd developers with breach of contract and various counts of intellectual property infringement.
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.
Kendall Square Research Corp.
Author: McFarlan, F. Warren
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Analysts forecast higher earnings for 1993, then the company's revenue recognition practices were questioned and the answers were devastating. This case discuses revenue recognition practices of new entrants to the computer industry and appropriate standards for auditors of the reports of such companies.
Productivity of Growing Global Energy Demand
Author: McKinsey Global Institute, The
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The McKinsey Global Institute
Publication Year: 2006
To date, the global debate about energy has focused too narrowly on curbing demand. Instead, the best way to meet the challenge of growing global energy demand may be to focus on energy productivity, which reconciles both demand abatement and energy-efficiency.
George McClelland at KSR (A, B, C)
Authors: Margolis, Joshua D.; Kanji, Ayesha; Wong, Wan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
George McClelland accepts a position as the chief administrative officer/chief operating officer at Kendall Square Research, but after discovering problems with documentation and revenue reporting, McClelland has to decide what course of action to take.
The Business of Green: A Special Section
Author: The New York Times
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Web Sites
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year:
A special New York Times section on Green Business: Businesses are going green for many reasons, not just to enhance their image. Some are seeking a competitive advantage...
Sustainable Development for Engineers: A Handbook and Resource Guide
Author: Mulder, Karel
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Greenleaf Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
It is crucial that engineers — from students to those already practicing — have a deep understanding of the environmental threats facing the world, if they are to become part of the solution and not the problem. Is there a way to reconcile modern lifestyles with the compelling need for change? Could new improved technologies play a key role? If great leaps in the environmental efficiency of technologies are needed, can they be produced? Engineers are in a privileged and hugely influential position to innovate, design and build a sustainable future. But are they engaged or uninterested? Are they knowledgeable or ignorant?
Sealed Air Taiwan (A)
Author: Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
The general manager for U.S.-based Sealed Air Corp.'s Taiwan subsidiary must decide how to improve productivity and achieve profitability...
World's 100 Most Sustainable Companies Announced at Davos
Author: GreenBiz.com
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: GreenBiz.com
Publication Year: 2006
The 2006 "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World" were announced at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos...
Global Warming: A Drag on Businesses
Author: Ahmad, Aftab
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Dawn (Pakistan's widely circulated English newspaper)
Publication Year: 2006
If global warming intensifies, there will be more heat-related deaths and more damage to crops and livestock as a result of droughts...
Corporate Social Responsibility at HP
Author:
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR
Publication Year: 2006
This case discusses the social and environmental initiatives taken by the US based hardware giant - HP. It discusses the vision of the founder David Packard, who believed that social and environment initiatives would in the long run result in the improvement of financial performance and a better corporate image for HP.
The New York Times DealBook Blog
Author: Sorkin, Andrew Ross
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2006
Daily news on mergers & acquisitions, I.P.O.'s, venture capital and more.
The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS
Author: Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Publication Year: 2006
The GBC is the pre-eminent organization leading the business fight against HIV/AIDS...
Put Your Values to Work
Authors: McGaw, Nancy; Fabish, Lisa
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2006
What does it take to nurture corporate values, embed values in everyday decisions, and reap the benefits...
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