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- February 1985
- Case
Business Research Corp. (B)
Contains a description of a set of related decisions confronting the management and directors of Business Research Corp. (BRC) in April of 1984. BRC needs more capital to finance continued development of the market for a full-text database comprised of Wall Street... View Details
- July 1984 (Revised June 1985)
- Background Note
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Marketing
- spring/summer 1984
- Article
Children as Consumers: An Ethical Evaluation of Children's Television Advertising
By: L. S. Paine
- March 1984 (Revised August 1990)
- Case
Petite Playthings, Inc.--1984 (A)
Provides background information for the (B) case, in which a young sales person is asked for a bribe by an experienced children's wear buyer. View Details
- November 1983 (Revised October 1988)
- Case
Canon Inc.: Worldwide Copier Strategy
Describes Canon's worldwide strategy in the copier business. Designed to be used to explore strategy formulation in a worldwide industry, and the principles of international competition. View Details
- September 1983 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Allen Lane
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Describes Allen Lane's search for a business to buy. The case explores several failed attempts and the ethical, business, and tax issues that surround the acquisition business. Ends with a description of a new acquisition candidate, an independent valuation report of... View Details
- March 1983 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Benjamin Franklin and the Definition of American Values
Discusses the value systems and their relationship to the conduct of business in 18th Century America. Also focuses on Benjamin Franklin, the preeminent colonial American, to examine how business was conducted in his era. Based on an earlier case by B.E. Supple. View Details
- November 1981
- Case
Questionable Payments Abroad: Gulf in Italy
Gulf Oil in Italy was confronted by the need to increase the authorized capacity at a refinery in the face of substantial opposition. Raises the issue of their use of "facilitating gratuities" to minor officials, payments to influence news reports, and the employment... View Details
- August 1981
- Case
West Point: The Cheating Incident (B)
A review of the activities following the expose of the cheating incident at West Point and leading up to the Secretary of the Army's decision on the situation. View Details
- August 1981
- Case
West Point: The Cheating Incident (C)
An outline of the Secretary of the Army's decision in the matter of the 1976 cheating scandal at West Point. View Details
- June 1981 (Revised February 1983)
- Case
West Point: The Cheating Incident (A)
Presents a review of published data on the 1976 cheating scandal at West Point. Written from the perspective of the Academy Superintendent, it raises issues of ethics, organizational change and action planning in the face of conflicting stakeholder interests. View Details
- 1978
- Article
Perceptions of Unfair Marketing Practices: Consumerism Implications
By: Gerald Zaltman, Rajendra K. Srivastava and Rohit Deshpandé
Previous research in complaint behavior has ignored the perception of unfair marketing practices as an explanatory variable. Perceptions of unfair marketing practices are related to consumer complaint behavior, although differentially related across different ages.... View Details
- May 1973
- Article
Evaluating Alternatives and Alternative Values
By: R. M. Kanter and L. Zurcher
Keywords: Values and Beliefs
- Research Summary
By: Ashish Nanda
Ashish Nanda's research focuses on ethics and economics of managing
professional service firms.
Nanda is working on a project that studies how management of conflict of interest influences professional identity, the role of professional associations, and the... View Details
- Other Unpublished Work
Building the Business Case for Ethics
By: Joshua D. Margolis, James Walsh and Dean Krehmeyer
Keywords: Ethics
- Research Summary
Business Ethics
Joshua Margolis is interested in how individuals can exercise leadership in the face of competing ethical and economic responsibilities, and how organizations can enable them to do that. In particular, how can managers and companies simultaneously advance... View Details
- Research Summary
Business Leaders and Corporate Responsibility
By: Thomas R. Piper
Thomas R. Piper is trying to establish an appropriate sense of ethics and corporate responsibility for future business leaders. Earlier research provided compelling evidence that many future leaders seriously doubt that their interpersonal ethics can be brought into... View Details