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Video: Joshua Margolis on Teaching Business Ethics
Author: Margolis, Joshua
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics
Publication Year: 2010
Faculty Rating: 
[2 Faculty Ratings] 1070 views
The third component of a well-designed business ethics course -- in addition to defying expectations and bringing together a multi-disciplinary team -- is making the ethics course itself the venue for integrating across the disciplines.
Does This Milkshake Taste Funny?
Authors: Cousins, R; Benitz, L
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 1998
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 3517 views
George Stein, a college student employed for the summer by Eastern Dairy, must decide if he is going to remove the filters from the plant's piping and thus allow the current production run of milkshake mix to become contaminated.
Shell in Nigeria
Authors: Hendry, John; Mellor, Kate; Hak, Zain; Ade-Ajayi, Funmi; Vieira, Waldir; Zou, Yuan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Cambridge Judge Business School
Publication Year: 2000
Faculty Rating: 
[1 Faculty Rating] 3615 views
This case reviews the public controversy surrounding Shell's operations in Nigeria in the 1990s...
Multinational Corporations, Governance Deficits, and Corruption
Author: Novartis Foundation
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Global Development Research Center
Publication Year:
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 1580 views
A web essay from Novartis Foundation discussing corruption in both developing and developed countries. The different types of corruption are summarized. The article also mentions that ethical corporate behavior by some companies may encourage other companies to do likewise.
American Pharmaceutical
Author: Richards, E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: CIBER Case Collection, Indiana University
Publication Year: 2002
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 1254 views
The HIV/AIDS crisis has spurred growing demands for cheaper substitutes for these antiretrovirals, suggesting that more and more countries may permit the sale of cheaper substitutes even before the patents expire. While American Pharmaceutical may legally challenge such activities, it is not clear if the challenges would be legally successful or if they would be politically or commercially prudent.
Amway in China (A, B)
Authors: Tan, David; Tan, Justin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 7045 views
Amway is a large manufacturer of household products that uses the direct selling approach. It has expanded into different markets over the years, most recently the Chinese market. However, the company must look at its strategy after the Chinese government implements regulations on the direct marketing business model...
How Can BPI Restore Consumer Confidence in Pink Slime?
Author: Osland, Asbjorn
Product Type: Cases
Source: San Jose State University
Publication Year: 2013
Beef Products Inc. (BPI) had developed a process of extracting the residual meat from cuttings. Lean finely textured beef (LFTB) resulted that was nutritious in terms of protein content but prone to contamination because it was made from cuttings. Social media portrayed LFTB as “pink slime.” Demand for BPI’s LFTB fell due to the “yuck” factor of “pink slime” and the company laid off 700 personnel at three of its plants...
First Green Bank: Bringing Bloom to Desert Landscapes
Authors: Marquis, Christopher; Almandoz, Juan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2013
First Green Bank is a bank start-up in the midst of the financial crisis which aims to promote sustainability while making money as a bank. The case presents an ethical dilemma as it considers a loan to an arms manufacturer…
GlaxoSmithKline $3 Bn Settlement
Authors: Satish, D.; Kumar, B. Sravana
Product Type: Cases
Source: IBS Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2013
Whistleblowers and the US Justice Department alleged that from 1999 through 2010, GlaxoSmithKline was engaged in a fraudulent scheme to deceive and defraud patients, regulators, and federal health programs. The case brings to light the issues and circumstance which led to the lawsuit being filed against GSK and the issues in question in the pharmaceutical industry. The case also brings out the important role played by the whistleblowers in bringing out the unethical practices in the business.
Insider Trading in India: Lessons to Learn from the US
Author: Ratna, Garima
Product Type: Cases
Source: Amity Research Centre
Publication Year: 2013
The celebrated Rajat Gupta case had stirred the stock market community as well as the legal fraternity around the world. It threw floodlights on the widely rampant but hardly acknowledged issue of insider trading...
Kellogg School of Management/Aspen Institute Business and Society Conference: Rethinking ‘Shareholder Value’ and the Purpose of the Corporation
Author:
Product Type: Video Collections; Web Sites
Source: Kellogg School of Management; The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2013
This two-day conference brought together leaders in business and academia to foster dynamic conversations about how corporations can respond to competing pressures to balance corporate social responsibility with shareholder value maximization.
Texas Contractors Say Playing By The Rules Doesn't Pay
Author: Goodwyn, Wade
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Multimedia
Source: NPR
Publication Year: 2013
Homes in Texas are cheap, but that affordability comes at a price...
Construction Booming In Texas, But Many Workers Pay Dearly
Author: Goodwyn, Wade
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Multimedia
Source: NPR
Publication Year: 2013
Homebuilding and commercial construction may be an economic driver for the state, but it's also an industry riddled with hazards. Years of illegal immigration have pushed wages down, and accidents and wage fraud are common.
Financial Flows, Development, and Global Justice
Authors: Mehta, Krishen; Beyerle, Shaazka
Product Type: Syllabi
Source:
Publication Year: 2013
This course will examine the structural roots of poverty, the connection between poverty and illicit financial flows, and how the shadow financial system prevalent in many countries facilitates such illicit flows and thereby undermines development.
Developing and Sustaining an Ethical Corporate Culture: The Core Elements
Author: Schwartz, Mark S.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2013
Of all the issues boards of directors, executives, and managers face, one could argue that unethical corporate activity is one of the most significant in terms of its potential negative impact and also one of the most difficult to properly address...
Food for Thought: The 2008 China Milk Scandal
Authors: Lim, Vivien K.G.; Rajah, Rashimah; Prasad, Smrithi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
In 2008, a scandal in China involving milk products tainted with melamine (a chemical used in plastic production) brought regional and global attention to the country. The case illustrates how the pressure of rapid economic development resulted in measures to cut costs at the expense of consumer safety and health, bringing into question the ethics underlying business practices in the country.
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Author: McMillan, Tracie
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Scribner
Publication Year: 2012
What if you can’t afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn’t escape as she watched the debate about America’s meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food’s true cost—which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters. From the fields of California, a Walmart produce aisle outside of Detroit, and the kitchen of a New York City Applebee’s, McMillan takes us into the heart of America’s meals.
Richard Gagnon at Granston Energy Inc.
Author: Gandz, Jeffrey
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
A procurement officer has got himself into some difficulties by trying to do what he thinks was "the right thing" in being responsive and accommodating for an internal client. In doing so, he has violated a number of "unwritten" ethical expectations of his role. He is wondering what he could have done differently and, specifically, how to handle an upcoming conversation with his chief executive officer about his future with the company.
Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products (A)
Authors: Mukunda, Gautam; DeLong, Thomas J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Gerry Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses. Several months into his tenure, the division paid large retention bonuses to all of its professionals according to a contract negotiated before he joined AIGFP. These bonuses were seen by the public as going to the very people whose mistakes resulted in the need for a bailout in the first place and resulted in an unprecedented storm of public outrage...
Rio Tinto and the Resolution Copper Mining Joint Venture (A, B, C)
Authors: Werhane, Patricia H.; Starr, Justin; Mead, Jenny; Gorman, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
From its inception, the Resolution Copper Mining (RCM) joint venture faced a number of significant technical, political, and environmental challenges as it attempted to develop a strategy for mining a copper ore body located under the Tonto National Forest in Superior, Arizona.
TED Talks: Video Collection
Author:
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: TED
Publication Year: 2013
This video collection of TED Talks highlights social, environmental and ethical issues related to business and can be used as an introduction to this varied video library on fascinating ideas by remarkable people.
When Exotic Investments Are Too Good to be True
Author: Sterngold, James
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: CNNMoney
Publication Year: 2012
Many investors don't trust Wall Street anymore, so they're putting money into exotic alternatives. The saga of two friends provides a window into a growing peril.
Peter Jepsen
Authors: Stevenson, Howard H.; Roberts, Michael J.; Sharpe, James M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
About to break bank covenants, Peter Jepsen has to deal with a contentious prior owner, improve profitability and staff appropriately all while maintaining credibility with his investors, in the furniture hardware company he has owned for less than a year...
Cutting out the Middle-Man: The Case for Direct Business Involvement in Environmental Justice
Authors: McCrory, Martin A.; Langvardt, Kyle T.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Employing as a jumping-off point a recent high-profile and multi-faceted scandal involving Penn State University and decision makers affiliated with it, this article explores a number of ethical decision making lessons to be learned from that scandal and considers how those lessons can be applied to a variety of decisions faced by corporate leaders...
Wheeling Cardiology Associates
Authors: Young, David W.; Gillette, Thomas P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Crimson Group
Publication Year: 2012
This is a case about three cardiology groups that are proposing to merge. One issue is antitrust, and the benefits and motives for the proposed merger can be debated. A second issue is one of ethics...
Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum
Author: UN Global Compact
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: United Nations Global Compact; Maplecroft
Publication Year: 2012
The Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum aims to enhance our collective understanding of human rights themes and to stimulate discussion about the dilemmas responsible multi-national companies may face in their efforts to respect and support human rights when operating in emerging economies.
Lehman Brothers’ Fall
Authors: Kakani, Ram Kumar; Singhania, Vasudha; Stack, Martin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
This case describes the financial undertakings of Lehman Brothers Inc., which was once the fourth-largest investment bank in the world. On September 15, 2008, less than a year after the bank presented its largest profit ever, the world watched its decline...
Cadbury: An Ethical Company Struggles to Insure the Integrity of Its Supply Chain
Authors: Chatterjee, Sumana; Elias, Jaan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Yale School of Management
Publication Year: 2008
In 2000 and 2001, revelations that the production of cocoa in the Côte d’Ivoire involved child slave labor set chocolate companies, consumers, and governments reeling. The stories of child slave labor on Côte d’Ivoire cocoa farms hit Cadbury especially hard. Furthermore, Cadbury’s culture had been deeply rooted in the religious traditions of the company’s founders, and the organization had paid close attention to the welfare of its workers and its sourcing practices.
Self-Serving Altruism? When Unethical Actions That Benefit Others Do Not Trigger Guilt
Authors: Gino, Francesca; Ayal, Shahar; Ariely, Dan
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Not a day goes by without the revelation of unethical behavior by a politician, movie star, professional athlete, or high-ranking executive. This paper asks: Is a person's willingness to cross ethical lines influenced by the presence of others who may benefit?
Business Ethics
Author:
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The purpose of this course is to enable students to consider the role of ethics in business administration in a complex, dynamic, global environment.
Was Insider Trading Ahead of Takeovers a Problem?
Authors: Foerster, Stephen R.; King, Michael R.; Sonmez, Fatma
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
On January 6, 2010, Stanko Grmovsek was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for making profits of an estimated US$9 million over 14 years based on insider tips from his best friend from law school...
A Blueprint for Better Business
Author:
Product Type: Cases
Source: Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales Working Group
Publication Year: 2012
There is increasing recognition among business leaders that the internal culture of business, including its underlying values, beliefs and principles, has to be candidly examined to see in what way it has contributed to the breakdown of trust. Are business people too narrowly focused on the bottom line, on maximising shareholder value in the short term? Do these perspectives blind them to the effects of their actions on wider society? This document examines examples of some of the personal dilemmas and frustrations of the business life.
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Authors: Christensen, Clayton M.; Allworth, James; Dillon, Karen
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: HarperBusiness
Publication Year: 2012
Drawing upon his business research, Christensen offers a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He uses examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to unhappiness.
Our Baboon Moment: How Businesses Can Create Peace
Author: Fort, Timothy L.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Network for Business Sustainability
Publication Year: 2012
Timothy Fort, professor at the George Washington University School of Business, describes how existing business practices can support world peace.
Corporate Governance: Board Members Reflect
Authors: Levy, Richard; Finocchio, Robert; Hackworth, Michael
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2012
To be effective, corporate boards must oversee the ethical functioning of a company as well as its business operations. In these videos we ask three experienced corporate directors — Richard Levy, Robert Finocchio and Michael Hackworth — to share their views about the ethical challenges facing corporate boards.
Identifying Fraudulent Companies in China
Authors: Hanson, Kirk O.; Block, Carson
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2012
A discussion about ethical issues such as fraud, conflicts of interest, and other issues and how these problems manifest in China.
American Apparel: Unwrapping Ethics
Authors: Cotte, June; Lee, Seung Hwan (Mark); Schuette, Brittany
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
American Apparel has socially progressive labour policies and uses significant environmental advances in its manufacturing process. In addition, it has a well-established philanthropic arm. Set against these socially responsible policies is the highly sexualized nature of the company’s advertising...
James Bowman and Coopertree Capital in China
Authors: Wicks, Andrew C.; Mead, Jenny; Keevil, Adrian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
James Bowman, a founding partner of a private equity fund manager based in New York City, has traveled to China to meet with a China Power Investment Corporation manager in the hope of cultivating a business relationship. But Bowman is flabbergasted when the manager, in what is supposed to be an introductory conversation, asks that Bowman deposit $800,000 into a Chinese banking account.
The Meatpacking Factory
Authors: Wicks, Andrew C.; Mead, Jenny; Stewart, Nicholas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The manager of a large meatpacking factory has agreed to the request of his 100-plus Muslim workers who have asked to take breaks at sunset to properly observe the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Other employees have become irritated, believing they are carrying the burden of the break times and resenting what they see as preferential treatment...
Telescope: Squaring Purpose with Reality
Authors: Wicks, Andrew C.; Mead, Jenny; Stewart, Nicholas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The management of Telescope, a wildly popular online search engine, must deal with an impending crisis: a security breach in which private information from thousands of users has been compromised...
Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse: Video
Authors: Hanson, Kirk O.; Jennings, Marianne M.
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2012
Marianne Jennings, author of "Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse," talks with Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, about the issues that consistently arise in companies that have gotten into trouble...
From International Conflict to Resolution and Peace
Author: Ty, Rey
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: DePaul University
Publication Year: 2012
This course examines the origin, nature, and consequences of conflict and peace. It investigates the systemic, interstate, domestic, economic, class, social, economic, ideological, idiosyncratic, and other factors that provide the reasons for which conflicts arise in different contexts. Literature used come from political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, education, history, business, communication, religious studies, and the humanities.
Occidental Engineering
Author: McFarland, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2012
A software engineer faces an ethical dilemma when his boss asks him to sign off on an air traffic control system with a serious bug.
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It
Author: Salter, Malcolm S.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies—along with fund managers and other investors—on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term investments, threatening the performance of both individual firms and the U.S. economy. I argue that short-termism also invites institutional corruption...
Transformational Gaming: Zynga's Social Strategy (A, B, C)
Author: Hartman, Laura Pincus
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
In January 2009, Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of the immensely popular and successful Zynga Game Network met with his sister Laura Hartman, DePaul University business ethics professor, to discuss building a new brand of corporate social strategy. Pincus wanted to find a way that Zynga could have a greater social impact on the world. He and Hartman talked about creating a new social strategy that would naturally flow out of Zynga’s success in developing highly profitable interactive social games. The two of them wondered whether it was possible for one company to develop a strategy that would both be profitable and engender social change.
Rospil.info
Authors: Healy, Paul M.; Ramanna, Karthik; Shaffer, Matthew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
What should business leaders do about corruption? In December 2011, four HBS alumni met to debate how to engage the unprecedented protests against Vladimir Putin's corrupt government...
Against the Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania
Author: Ramanna, Karthik
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Loan officer Jim Teague discovers his agro-processor client has a serious health-code violation just days before a disbursement is due. Proceeding with the loan could jeopardize the health of thousands of customers and put his employer at serious risk. But withholding the loan will likely deprive hundreds of farmers affiliated with the agro-processor their livelihoods in this poor rural corner of Tanzania…
Mind the Gap: Royal Dutch Shell’s Sustainability Agenda in Nigeria
Authors: Hennchen, Esther; Lozano, Josep Maria
Product Type: Cases
Source: ESADE Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Royal Dutch Shell has started to assume social and political responsibilities that go beyond legal requirements and fill the regulatory vacuum in global governance and a public responsibility gap in Nigeria. Which implications does this engagement have for the firm, governance and democracy? And which public responsibility strategies can a multinational company like Shell employ in a complex operating environment such as Nigeria to be sustainable?
Anti-corruption Guidelines (“Toolkit”) for MBA Curriculum Change
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: United Nations Global Compact, Principles for Responsible Management Education
Publication Year: 2012
The project aims at promoting ethical decision-making and anti-corruption competencies at the post-baccalaureate level by offering business schools and management-related academic institutions substantive anti-corruption guidelines for curriculum change with the aim of teaching students to take effective and ethical decisions that benefit both business and society.
Inspirational Guide for the Implementation of PRME: Placing Sustainability at the Heart of Management Education
Author: GSE Research Limited
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: GSE Research Limited; United Nations Global Compact, Principles for Responsible Management Education
Publication Year: 2012
While consensus has been reached by the majority of globally focused management education institutions that sustainability must be incorporated into management education curricula, the relevant question is no longer why management education should change, but how? This Guide addresses frequently asked questions concerning the implementation of principles for responsible management education by highlighting real world examples with cases from dozens of institutions in countries around the world...
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