Publications

Keywords: Governance Compliance

September 1998 (Revised May 2004)
Case

Becton Dickinson: Ethics and Business Practices (A)

Becton Dickinson's Global One-Company Operations Group must decide on the company's global policy on gifts, gratuities, and business entertainment. A central issue is whether the policy should be established centrally and made uniform worldwide or whether it should be... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Ethics; Law; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Global Strategy; Trade; Business or Company Management

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12 Dec 2002
Conference Presentation

Performing at a Higher Level Building Your Company's Ethical Competency

Keywords: Ethics

April 1995
Teaching Note

Dave Stewart TN

May 1995 (Revised June 1995)
Case

E. F. Hutton: Cash Management Crisis (C)

Keywords: Financial Institutions; Cash; Crisis Management; Financial Services Industry

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December 1993 (Revised September 2003)
Supplement

Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (D)

Prosecutors in the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Consumer Litigation reflect on their case against the Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management; Family Ownership; Cognition and Thinking; Food and Beverage Industry

November 1993 (Revised September 1998)
Supplement

Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (C): Conclusion

Describes the results of the charges related to the sale of the apple juice products. View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; United States

November 1993 (Revised January 2006)
Supplement

Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (B)

Officials of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must decide whether to refer the Beech-Nut apple juice case to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution, and if so, whether to recommend prosecution of individual executives or of the company only. View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Cases; Law; Management; Food and Beverage Industry

September 1992 (Revised August 2004)
Supplement

Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (C2)

A jury must decide whether an employee, discharged for misusing company time and filling out false time cards for work on U.S. government contracts, has been wrongfully terminated. Designed to show how the human resource manager's perspective on employee discipline... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Governance Compliance; Policy; Resignation and Termination; Perspective

January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
Case

Lexon Corp. (A)

A general manager at Lexon Computer Corp. must decide whether interception and surveillance of employees' e-mail is acceptable company practice, and whether to follow the advice of his computer operations manager who wants to fire the person who complained that the... View Details

Keywords: Information; Rights; Managerial Roles; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Ethics; Computer Industry

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October 1991 (Revised June 1996)
Case

Lotus MarketPlace: Households

Managers at Lotus and Equifax must decide what to do about their new jointly developed database and software product Lotus MarketPlace which has been criticized as a threat to individual privacy. The Product, which would allow small businesses to buy targeting mail... View Details

Keywords: Information; Business or Company Management; Rights; Ethics; Marketing Communications; Applications and Software; Product Marketing; Information Technology Industry

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Research Summary

Overview

My work focuses on boards of directors and corporate governance. I am currently developing new cases and materials for our MBA and Executive offerings in this area and working on a project entitled The Future of Corporate Governance. In addition, I am currently... View Details

Awards

Rendanheyi Badge

Winner of the 2018 Rendanheyi Badge for Lifetime Achievement from the Second International Rendanheyi Model Forum sponsored by Haier Group and MLab View Details

October 1999
Case

Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (A)

After the Brent Spar episode and the 1995 events in Nigeria, Shell undertakes an intensive review of its values and business principles. At the same time, it conducts the largest multi-stakeholder consultation in its history in an effort to better understand society's... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Transformation; Environmental Accounting; Energy Industry

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