Publications

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

Keywords: Judgments; Ethics; Product Launch; Negotiation; Outcome or Result; Performance; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; France; Germany; United States

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

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; France; Germany; United States

September 1990
Case

Roger Smith, General Motors, and Ross Perot

Keywords: Auto Industry

June 1990 (Revised August 1992)
Case

H. Ross Perot

Keywords: Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry

June 1990
Case

CBS vs. Andy Rooney

Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry

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

Keywords: Decisions; Moral Sensibility; Managerial Roles; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges

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

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

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

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

August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
Case

IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur

By: Joseph L. Bower

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

February 1988 (Revised April 1988)
Case

General Motors in 1988

Keywords: Auto Industry

January 1988 (Revised May 1988)
Case

General Motors' Asian Alliances

Describes all of General Motors' major alliances with Asian firms. These include Toyota, Fanuc, Isuzu, Daewoo, Suzuki, Nissan, and Hitachi. Students can discuss the rationale of each alliance, their risks, their management problems, and their likely evolution. Also... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cost Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Problems and Challenges; Alliances; Risk and Uncertainty; Adoption; Corporate Strategy