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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...
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
Author: Friedman, Milton
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Speeches
Source: The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.
Publication Year: 1970
"When I hear businessmen speak eloquently about the "social responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise system," it's obvious that they believe that they are defending free enterprise
Eat2Eat.com
Authors: Goodwin, Nigel; Hardy, Kenneth G.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
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Eat2Eat.com was an Internet-based restaurant reservation service covering a dozen cities in the Asia Pacific region. The case focuses on entrepreneurial marketing with sub-themes of financing and small enterprise management. It is a story of an entrepreneur who had an idea and enough money to launch it, but then struggles to achieve adequate scale...
Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts
Authors: Mitchell, Ronald K.; Agle, Bradley R.; Wood, Donna J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Review 1997, Volume 22, No. 4, pp. 853-886
Publication Year: 1997
This discussion of stakeholder theory argues that stakeholders possess one or more of three relationship attributes: power, legitimacy and urgency.
Doing Better at Doing Good: When, Why and How Consumers Respond to Corporate Social Initiatives
Authors: Bhattacharya, C.B.; Sen, Sankar
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2004
Although companies are devoting significant resources to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, insights into the optimal formulation, implementation, and effectiveness estimation of CSR strategies are currently scarce. This article takes an in-depth look at when, why, and how CSR works from a consumer's perspective...
The Lucent Accounting Scandal
Authors: Gupta, V.; Aparna, K.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2005
The case discusses the accounting frauds committed at the US-based telecommunications giant, Lucent Technologies Inc (Lucent), during early 2000...
Safaricom Limited
Author: Mayaka, Charles
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2005
Joseph and his team had only just begun to get settled in Nairobi, and it now appeared that the race for mobile telephone customers had begun sooner than he had anticipated. It was time to get out of the starting blocks. But how?
Revenue Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry
Authors: Costa, Arjuna; Healy, Paul M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
In late 2000, Lucent Technologies reports multiple revisions to its recent financial results due to revenue recognition problems, leading to a dramatic decline in its stock price. From the perspective of a securities analyst covering the industry, are the troubles at Lucent indicative of larger revenue recognition issues throughout the industry?
Meg Whitman at EBay, Inc. (A, B)
Authors: Hill, Linda A.; Farkas, Maria
Product Type: Cases
Source: Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Meg Whitman takes over as CEO of eBay from the founder. She must figure out how to lead the company through a stage of phenomenal growth without compromising eBay's unique external customer culture and internal culture--its key success factors.
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...
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