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Tempes Corporation
Authors: Cummings, Christopher A.; Lovejoy, William; Molinaro, Lawrence, Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: World Resources Institute
Publication Year: 1995
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Tempes, a fictitious manufacturer of precision equipment for "extreme" sports, needs to decide between two different designs for its Water Moccasin, a device designed to provide readings of depth, pressure, and temperature.
San Diego Padres: PETCO Park as a Catalyst for Urban Redevelopment
Authors: Foster, George; Davila, Antonio; Hoyt, David W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2008
The case is used to discuss ways in which, by thinking beyond the immediate objective of building a new stadium, professional sports team owners can reap economic benefits from redevelopment and obtain public support.
Media Monitoring Services
Author: Ogbechie, Chris
Product Type: Cases
Source: Lagos Business School
Publication Year: 2005
In September 2001 Uche Aligbe, the managing director of Media Monitoring Services, was astounded by the letter he had just received from one of his biggest clients serving him notice of cessation of business at the end of the year. Mr. Aligbe had been battling with his computerization effort to get his television and radio monitoring process automated for over six months without any definite result...
Acelero Learning
Author: Childress, Stacey
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Acelero was a for-profit Head Start company headquartered in New York City that created affiliates around the United States in partnership with local stakeholders to serve as replacement grantees for failing Head Start programs. Their goal was to transform the programs into high-performing service providers for low-income children and families.
Movimiento Congruencia
Authors: Carrera, Octavio; Barraza, Alejandra Guzman; Osland, Asbjorn
Product Type: Cases
Source: CEMEX
Publication Year: 2009
Mexico-based Movimiento Congruencia is an alliance between companies, hiring agencies, and other institutions focused on the integration of people with disabilities into the workforce and society. MC began in 2000 with 11 participating companies, and eight years later 51 organizations were taking part. Over 500 disabled people had participated.
Jefferson-Pilot Corporation
Authors: Brown, Lew G.; Cook, Michael J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: NACRA, North American Case Research Journal / The Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 1997
In early 1993, a new management team has taken over Jefferson-Pilot Corporation, a well-established life insurance company with a sound financial position and $1.12 billion in revenue. However, life insurance premium income has been relatively flat for the past five years...
Target Corporation
Authors: Cox, Joshua L.; Berry, Katherine M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Eugene D. Fanning Center for Business Communication
Publication Year: 2006
Rachel Pourchot entered a Target to fill prescriptions for Ortho Tri-Cyclen, an emergency contraceptive otherwise known as the Plan B pill. The Target pharmacist, she claims, had rudely refused to fill her prescription on moral and religious grounds. PPF launched a letter writing campaign that led over 60,000 supporters to contact Target. For many, the incident cast doubt on the company’s reputation as a non-discriminatory, impartial, and friendly company.
Corporate Governance Reforms in China and India: Challenges and Opportunities
Authors: Zhang, Yan; Rajagopalan, Nandini
Product Type: Cases
Source: Business Horizons/Indiana University
Publication Year: 2008
This case is designed to help students better understand corporate governance reforms in China and India, as regards investment in these economies.
Matt Moreau's Dilemma
Author: Gandz, Jeffrey
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 1999
A newly appointed manager of customer services for a department store, must decide whether or not to offer a job to an employee who was recovering from a serious illness, and who might experience a "relapse" if she took on this high-stress position.
iPremier (A): Denial of Service Attack (Graphic Novel Version)
Authors: Austin, Robert D.; Short, Jeremy C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
Describes an IT security crisis, and raises issues of risk management, preparation for crisis, management of crises, computer security, and public disclosure of security risks.
Kiva Versus MYC4
Authors: Santos, Felipe; Carrick-Cagna, Anne-Marie
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2009
The case describes the launch, growth and current challenges of two innovative ventures in the nascent social lending market. It shows how these organisations are using the concept of on-line micro lending to eradicate poverty. While operating in the same market space, the two companies have fundamentally different business models.
The Nonmarket Environment of Google
Author: Baron, David P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
With Google's rapid international growth, came a number of nonmarket challenges including privacy issues in the United States and European Union, the spectrum auction, intellectual property, corporate social responsibility, and business practices in China.
Outrage at Eastern
Authors: Cousins, R; Benitz, L
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2000
Charles Jackson, the Plant Manager at Eastern Plating, was confronted by a group of angry workers demanding that one of their co-workers, recently charged with molesting his own stepdaughter, not be allowed to return to work. The employees threatened violence if their co-worker was allowed to return, but company policy states that an employee charged with a crime must be allowed to continue working prior to a conviction.
The Pink Dollar
Authors: Raghubir, P.; Guerrero, F.; Wong, A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ECCH
Publication Year: 2008
The case presents the dilemma of 'Joe Jones', Product Director for a well-known fragrance line in the luxury products category of a large consumer products company.
Trouble in Paradise: Stakeholder Conflict in the Paseo Caribe Project
Authors: Toro, Gwendolyn; Sagebien, Julia; Quinones, Victor
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2010
The case centres on the many controversies surrounding the Paseo Caribe real estate development project in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico.
Managing a Public Image: Kevin Knight
Authors: Ely, Robin J.; Vargas, Ingrid
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Kevin Knight recounts an uncomfortable situation he faced as an African-American student at Harvard Business School. Concerned with maintaining an image as a calm and rational person, he is appalled when he finds himself in a heated classroom exchange in defense of an African-American case protagonist...
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.
Maxus and the Huaoranis
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Harris, Geoff; Radin, Tara J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Publishing Company
Publication Year: 1996
This case focuses on the conflict between industrial growth and environmental protection.
Mattel Toys: Made in China (A, B, C)
Authors: Jackson, G.; Xiubao, Y.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2008
This three-part case study relates to the 2007 product recalls of toys manufactured in China for Mattel Inc, the world's biggest toy maker.
Pfizer Global Health Fellows
Author: Levine, Jonathan B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2004
The world's largest pharmaceutical maker, Pfizer Inc., faced a moral and strategic challenge: How could it respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the most devastating disease of the developing world, in a way that was commensurate with the company's leading position in its field?
The Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund: Striving to Reshape the Social Enterprise Capital Markets
Authors: Chu, Michael; Hazell, Jean Steege
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
This case examines the key characteristics of the social enterprise capital markets and explore the challenges of personal philanthropy to identify the factors that maximize impact inefficacy and inefficiency.
Genetically Modified Crops in India: The Bt brinjal Controversy
Author: Purkayastha, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2008
This case discusses the introduction of Bt brinjal in India in the backdrop of the controversy surrounding genetically modified (GM) crops in India.
A Case of Bad News
Author: Amelio, Gil
Product Type: Cases
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2005
The new CEO of a corporation learns that he has inherited problems with growth and profitability. A four-day workweek and, eventually, layoffs prove necessary. Who is the CEO obligated to inform and when?
AdNet (A, B, C, D)
Author: Haddad, Kimberly
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2001
Confronted by a business proposal that is remarkably similar to a project recently financed by a sister-office, venture capitalist Monique LeMieux ponders what she should do...
Weathering the Storm of Investor Risk at RWE: WWF's Assessment
Authors: Steger, U; Ionescu-Somers, Aileen; Coughlan, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD
Publication Year: 2008
This case looks at the differences between how a company and an NGO assess the financial risk posed by carbon.
Galway Bay Health Farm
Author: Torres, Ann
Product Type: Cases
Source: National University of Ireland
Publication Year: 2002
The case examines the applicability of marketing principles and practices within the SME domain. Although the development of an effective marketing information system and appropriate marketing mix management are critical for future sustainability, the case more strongly emphasises the development of business and marketing communications strategies.
Corporate Governance in the Post Sarbanes-Oxley Period: Compensation Disclosure and Analysis (CD&A)
Authors: Dalton, Catherine M.; Dalton, Dan R.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2008
This case helps students to become better acquainted with the increasingly troubling issue of skyrocketing executive compensation, as it relates to SOX and CD&A.
Climate Change for Europe's Utilities
Author:
Product Type: Cases
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Wholesale and retail electricity prices will be forced upward, and gas will replace coal as the basic fuel in many countries. The current proposal, though, would deliver unexpected benefits to many power generators, including fossil fuel plants that are emitting the most CO2. More regulatory negotiations are therefore certain, and European utilities and heavy electricity users will have to give the debate closer attention...
Best Buy's Results Only Work Environment: Changing the Productivity Paradigm?
Author: Regani, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
This case discusses a workplace programme called the 'Results Oriented Work Environment' (ROWE) implemented by US based electronics retailer Best Buy in 2003-2004.
Anglo German Trading Corporation
Author: Roberts, Kenneth E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Roberts, Kenneth E.
Publication Year: 1997
Should penguins be killed and processed for their skins and meat? This is the question facing the general manager of a South American subsidiary of the Anglo German Trading Corporation, a multinational already facing bad publicity regarding its environmental policies.
Multimap
Authors: Reczek, Cosette; Lloyd, Julian; Bates, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: London Business School
Publication Year: 2005
After over three years of creating and building an internet mapping business in his spare bedroom, Sean Phelan realized that Multimap needed to enter a new phase in order to expand. He had been involved in two previous discussions with venture capitalists, but his focus on technical development rather than business planning had resulted in these discussions faltering, with the VCs raising questions about revenue generation that he was not in a position to answer...
South African Breweries Group
Author: Siehl, C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2000
The case deals with the challenge of developing a global business from a South African base. The case focuses on an African company that is attempting to become a global leader while dealing with issues that reflect the complexity of South African social structure.
Krazan & Associates: Building a Company of Owners
Author: Meyertholen, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2008
Employee-owned companies are different. They’re special. That becomes very clear after meeting members of these companies at employee ownership conferences and speaking with the Beyster Institute’s consulting clients.
Shell and the Klappan: Coalbed Methane Controversy
Author: von der Porten, Suzanne
Product Type: Cases
Source: Selkirk College
Publication Year: 2008
Since Shell Canada was awarded tenure in 2003 by the British Columbia provincial government to drill exploratory coal-bed methane (CBM) wells in the Klappan region of Northwestern B.C., significant opposition to the potential project has erupted.
Tata Motors in Singur
Authors: Iyer, Lakshmi; Alfaro, Laura; Arora, Namrata
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
In October 2008, Tata Motors canceled their car manufacturing plant in West Bengal state, in the face of widespread farmer protests over land acquisition issues.
Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A, B)
Authors: Rangan, V. Kasturi; Barton, Brooke; Reficco, Ezequiel
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
This case helps students to understand the complex economic, political, and cultural landscape that MNCs in developing countries must navigate to maintain their "license to operate." To highlight the complex political dimensions of running a highly profitable business in an extremely poor region of a developing country, as well as the role that NGOs can play in helping to negotiate mutually beneficial and lasting agreements with local actors.
Shark Harvesting and Resource Conservation (S.H.A.R.C.)
Authors: Wade-Benzoni, Kimberly A.; Tenbrunsel, Ann E.; Bazerman, Max H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The World Resources Institute
Publication Year: 1994
SHARC is a multi-party exercise in which each participant represents an organization that relies on shark fishing for income...
American Mining Company (AMC) in Columbia
Author: Guthery, D
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2001
This case focuses on the ethical dimensions of a decision an American-based company must make in order to survive in a country experiencing civil war...
Carol Fishman Cohen: Professional Career Reentry (A, B)
Authors: Hart, Myra; Wojewoda, Susan; Ely, Robin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
Carol Cohen is a 1985 Harvard MBA who has professional line experience in a manufacturing environment, followed by a successful transition into investment banking. Details Cohen's decision to return to a professional career after almost 11 years out of the full-time workforce...
H&R Block and “Everyday Financial Services”
Authors: Tufano, Peter; Schneider, Daniel
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2004
The CEO, Mark Ernst, considers a proposal for Block to differentiate itself from these competitors by offering its low-income clients a range of financial services, including check cashing, money transfer, and savings products. The case introduces the alternative financial services sector and business issues related to providing financial services to low-income clients.
Saudi Arabia
Authors: Vietor, Richard; Evans, Rebecca
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Provides a vehicle to explore Islamic development and political issues within BGIE (business, government, and international economy). Set in early 2002, the case focuses on Crown Prince Abdullah's efforts to liberalize a failing rentier state, that had been dependent on petroleum for too long...
Lincoln Electric Co.
Authors: Fast, Norman D.; Berg, Norman A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1983
This case covers the strategy and management practices of the world's largest manufacturer of welding equipment. Discusses the compensation system and company culture, and the leadership style of management.
Microfinance International Corporation: No, Not Another Microfinance Case
Author: Isenberg, Daniel J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
This case helps students to learn about international expansion and international customer service for entrepreneurial ventures, including microfinance corporations.
Clayton Industries, Inc.
Authors: Bartlett, Christopher A.; Barlow, Benjamin H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Clayton Industries, a sixty-year-old U.S.-based firm in the HVAC industry (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), with nearly $1 billion in revenues, has gradually built a presence in a number of countries, including several in Europe. Peter Arnell, previously Clayton's successful country manager for the U.K., has been asked to take over the Italian subsidiary, which has recently been struggling on several fronts.
Rehabilitation Alliance Hong Kong: Next Step Forward
Authors: Tsai, Terence; Li, Barbara
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The case describes the unique business model of Rehabilitation Alliance Hong Kong (RAHK) beginning with its strategic alliance with Dairy Farm to run 7-Eleven convenience stores, with an aim to create job opportunities for its disabled members.
Halton Recycling, Ltd.
Authors: Prahinski, Carol; Fan, Ying
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
The operations manager at Halton Recycling wondered if converting to a more efficient single-stream operation would help reduce costs provide the company with significant competitive advantages.
Orange Cameroon
Author:
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 2009
This is the fourth of a four-case series (BAB133-BAB136). This case series is designed to illustrate the specificities of competition in poor and developing economies and, more specifically, competition at the base of the pyramid.
Sox-Pox?
Author: Lorsch, Jay W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
Describes the experiences of audit committee chairmen in responding to and implementing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Teaching Purpose: To help students understand the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on audit committees.
The Case of the Sole Remaining Supplier
Author: Shanks, Thomas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2005
What are the ethical questions involved when a company is the only supplier of a high-risk, life-saving product? There is a 2 page commentary which is a part of the case.
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?
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