Publications

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

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility; Questionnaires; Attorney and Client Relationships; Social Psychology; Conflict Management; Legal Services Industry

Educators

June 1990 (Revised February 1991)
Case

Morality and Integrity

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Ethics

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

Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Outcome or Result; Value

Educators

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

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Management; Problems and Challenges; Personal Characteristics; Value

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

Keywords: Trade; Ethics; Intellectual Property; Law; Negotiation Process; Relationships; Software; Information Technology Industry

February 1990
Supplement

PaineWebber: Institutional Equity Division, Video

1990
Chapter

Management Revolution: The Response to Global Glut

By: J. L. Bower

Keywords: Change Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Supply and Industry

October 1989
Case

PaineWebber: Institutional Equity Division

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

October 1989
Teaching Note

General Motors' Asian Alliances, Teaching Note

Teaching Note for (9-388-094). View Details

September 1989
Case

Intellectual Property Rights: The IBM-Fujitsu Case

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Law; Computer Industry; United States; Japan

1989
Book

Leadership and the Quest for Integrity

By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Richard R Ellsworth

November 1988 (Revised July 1990)
Case

Montedison--1986

November–December 1988
Article

Fast-Cycle Capability for Competitive Power

By: Joseph L. Bower and Thomas M. Hout

Keywords: Competition; Power and Influence

1988
Chapter

The Managerial Estate

Keywords: Management

October 1988 (Revised May 1991)
Background Note

Managing Resource Allocation

August 1988 (Revised August 1989)
Case

Industrial Systems, Inc.

August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
Case

IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur

Presents the ingredients that went into a major entrepreneurial shift by IBM--investing $5 billion into a new product line that would obsolete any existing computer product line offered by the competition, or by IBM itself. The economic and technical challenges of this... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Investment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry

1988
Chapter

Managing in a Politicized World

Keywords: Management; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution