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April 2005
Article

Necessary Evils and Interpersonal Sensitivity in Organizations

By: Andrew Molinsky and Joshua D. Margolis

Keywords: Organizations

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August 2004 (Revised March 2009)
Exercise

Your Own Case Study

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Sarah Marie Kauss

Designed to aid in the transfer and application of knowledge gained from the executive program to the live situation that program participants face in their jobs. Teaching Purpose: To bring practical relevance to executive education programs, permitting focused... View Details

Keywords: Executive Education; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management; Practice

August 2004
Teaching Note

Your Own Case Study (TN)

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Sarah Marie Kauss

Teaching Note to (9-405-037). View Details

Keywords: Learning; Problems and Challenges; Programs

June 2004
Case

Aventis SA (A): Planning for a Merger

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Eight executives at Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc must make four crucial decisions on the eve of merging their companies to become Aventis--what would become the world's third largest pharmaceutical firm. In addition to formulating a vision and strategy, the two firms must... View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

Educators

June 2004
Case

Aventis SA (B): A Company is Born

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

Educators

2004
Chapter

Responsibility, Inconsistency, and the Paradoxes of Morality in Human Nature: de Waal's Window into Business Ethics

Keywords: Ethics

April 2004 (Revised May 2005)
Case

Confronting a Necessary Evil: The Firing of Alex Robins (A)

A manager recounts his experience firing the person he was asked to replace and reflects on the challenges of the experience. Teaching Purpose: To role-play and reflect on tasks that entail harming other people to fulfill one's responsibility. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Problems and Challenges; Leadership Development; Behavior; Decision Making; Resignation and Termination

Educators

April 2004 (Revised October 2006)
Teaching Note

Martha McCaskey (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-403-114). View Details

April 2004 (Revised June 2004)
Teaching Note

George McClelland at KSR (TN) (A), (B), (C)

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Wan Wong and David Lane

Teaching Note to (9-403-163), (9-403-164), (9-403-165), and (9-404-801). View Details

April 2004 (Revised June 2004)
Teaching Note

Necessary Evils: A Diagnostic Exercise (TN)

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Andrew Molinsky

Teaching Note to (9-404-027), (9-404-113), (9-404-125), and (9-404-805). View Details

Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

April 2004
Supplement

Confronting a Necessary Evil

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Andrew Molinsky

Keywords: Leadership

February 2004 (Revised May 2005)
Supplement

Confronting a Necessary Evil: The Firing of Alex Robins (B)

A manager recounts his experience firing the person he was asked to replace and reflects on the challenges of the experience. Teaching Purpose: To role-play and reflect on tasks that entail harming other people to fulfill one's responsibility. View Details

Keywords: Resignation and Termination

February 2004 (Revised April 2005)
Exercise

Necessary Evils: A Diagnostic Exercise

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Andrew Molinsky

Central to the work of leaders and professionals are tasks that entail harming one party to deliver benefits or advance valued and worthy goals. Sometimes a person must, as part of his or her job, perform an act that causes emotional, material, or physical harm to... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Ethics; Management Skills

December 2003
Article

Social Issues in Management: Our Lost Cause Found

By: James P. Walsh, Klaus Weber and Joshua D. Margolis

Keywords: Social Issues; Management