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- February 1991 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Ann Hopkins (A)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Ilyse Barkan
Intended to help students understand the many barriers organizations face as their members and their management ranks grow more diverse. As a case on business ethics, it encourages students to discuss what "fairness" and "diversity" mean when an organization is also... View Details
- January 1991 (Revised January 1992)
- Supplement
IBM-Fujitsu Settlement
Describes the decision by the arbitrators chosen to resolve the intellectual property dispute between IBM and Fujitsu. View Details
- January 1991 (Revised February 1991)
- Case
Taro Yoshida
- January 1991 (Revised May 1992)
- Teaching Note
IBM-Fujitsu Dispute and IBM-Fujitsu Settlement, Teaching Note
Teaching Note for (9-390-168) and (391-149). View Details
Keywords: Information Technology Industry
- October 1990 (Revised April 1991)
- Case
RU 486 (A)
Describes the factors faced by Roussel UCLAF, a French drug company, in deciding whether and how to market a controversial new drug, RU 486, which is often called "the French abortion pill." Roussel's decision involved its relations with the French government, its... View Details
- September 1990 (Revised March 1991)
- Supplement
RU 486 (B)
Describes how Roussel UCLAF resolved the dilemma. Intended for use as an in-class handout. View Details
- June 1990 (Revised August 1992)
- Case
H. Ross Perot
- June 1990 (Revised October 1991)
- Supplement
Lake Pleasant Bodies Case (B)
Describes how the attorney resolved the dilemma he faced, the reasons for his decision, and the consequences he suffered. Displays vividly the personal toll that moral conflicts can create for professionals with role obligations. View Details
- June 1990 (Revised October 1991)
- Case
Lake Pleasant Bodies Case (A)
Presents a classic dilemma in legal ethics--the conflict between an attorney's obligations as an attorney, in this case to protect a client's confidentiality, and his or her own moral obligations as a person. An attorney must decide how to respond to the father of a... View Details
- June 1990 (Revised February 1991)
- Case
Morality and Integrity
- June 1990 (Revised November 1991)
- Case
Morality and Consequences
Consists mainly of excerpts from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill. Mill explains what utilitarianism is and gives his rationale for accepting it as a moral philosophy. View Details
- May 1990 (Revised April 1991)
- Background Note
Dirty Hands
A one-paragraph excerpt from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre. Describes in the words of one character, the ethical problem of "dirty hands": the problem that doing the morally superior thing in some circumstances inevitably involves doing some things that are morally wrong.... View Details
- March 1990 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
IBM-Fujitsu Dispute
Describes a dispute between IBM and Fujitsu over allegations that Fujitsu stole proprietary IBM software for controlling mainframe computers. Also describes a novel arbitration agreement intended to resolve the dispute, an overview of intellectual property law in the... View Details
- October 1989
- Teaching Note
General Motors' Asian Alliances, Teaching Note
Teaching Note for (9-388-094). View Details
- September 1989
- Case