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Jamba Juice and the Foam Cup

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 02/2013 Product ID#: 1-429-298 Length: 20pages

Environmental issues increasingly influence many aspects of business including strategy, public relations, and supply chain operations. This case centers on whether or not Jamba Juice, a publicly held smoothie company, should respond to online public pressure to cease use of polystyrene foam cups. Students will explore how companies respond to public scrutiny and consider what actions make business sense for companies when faced with the public’s increasing demands for companies to be more sustainable.

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SC Johnson and the Greenlist Backlash

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 02/2013 Product ID#: 1-429-300 Length: 16pages

This case examines SC Johnson’s development of the environmentally focused ingredient improvement process Greenlist™ and the subsequent lawsuits brought by consumers against the company for deceptively labeling its products, or “greenwashing”. The case inspires a discussion of the cleaning product industry and how green aspects of products are currently being communicated to consumers. Students are challenged to consider the tradeoffs of different kinds of communication and green certification.

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Honor Code: A Sticky Situation in Business School (A)

by Susan Ashford

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 07/2012 Product ID#: 1-429-278 Length: 4pages

This case is a cautionary tale about the consequences of cheating in business school. It is ideal for new business students. Honor Code (A) details the circumstances that led to the main character's slip in judgement, and asks students how to proceed. Honor Code (B) is the resulting outcome. This case was originally developed for executive-MBA students, but it will be appropriate f...

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Honor Code: A Sticky Situation in Business School (B)

by Susan Ashford

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 07/2012 Product ID#: 1-429-281 Length: 4pages

This case is a cautionary tale about the consequences of cheating in business school. It is ideal for new business students. Honor Code (A) details the circumstances that led to the main character's slip in judgement, and asks students how to proceed. Case (B) is the resulting outcome. This case was originally developed for executive-MBA students, but it will be appropriate for all...

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BP: Beyond Petroleum?

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 04/2012 Product ID#: 1-429-229 Length: 28pages

British Petroleum (BP), one of the world’s largest oil companies, had spent over $200 million rebranding itself as environmentally responsible, with the tagline “Beyond Petroleum.” However, after the catastrophic 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, the company’s name seemed to be permanently tarnished. Through a deep dive into all events of the spill, this case study asks students to determine: what should BP do now?

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Kinder, Lydenberg, and Domini and Socially Responsible Investing

by Paul Godfrey

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 12/2011 Product ID#: 1-429-215 Length: 22pages

This case study tells the story of KLD Research & Analytics, which provided annual social responsibility ratings for over 3,000 companies, employed over 60 people, and was widely regarded as a leader in social investment research. One of this case's key learning outcomes will be helping students realize that starting and growing a successful social venture takes more than individua...

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Business Thought & Action, Module 3: Sources of Business Stress

by Robert J. Dolan, Scott A. Moore, Robert E. Kennedy

Product Type: Module Publication Date: 08/2011 Product ID#: 1-429-189 Length: 100pages

The third module of the Business Thought & Action™ course is especially innovative, focusing entirely on business failure. The module analyzes real-life businesses that have experienced turmoil, such as Kodak and Snapple, and examines how they have responded to the stress. The module examines several types of stress--imposed by external economic changes, specific competitive challe...

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Leadership Crisis Challenge

by Susan Ashford

Product Type: Leadership Crisis Challenge Publication Date: 01/2011 Product ID#: 1-429-121 Length: 22pages

Winner of the 2011 University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize This role-playing simulation allows students to make decisions in real-time based on rapidly-changing business scenarios. Students become the senior executives for AquaStar Bottled Water, a company accused of contaminating Michigan's public water system. They must make critical decisions that will develo...

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Enron: The Rise and Fall

by Scott A. Moore

Product Type: Profile Publication Date: 12/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-058 Length: 20pages

In 1999, Enron was the #1 company in innovation and quality of management. Less than two years later, it filed for bankruptcy in one of the most portent fraud cases of the decade. The story of Enron’s rise and fall tells a lot about manipulation of accounting and regulatory standards and about the disregard of ethics and law in pursuit of money and excellence. Against the backdrop...

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Losing Face on Facebook

by Glyn ATWAL, Douglas Bryson

Product Type: Mini-Case Publication Date: 08/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-080 Length: 6pages

Casey Cook had been client services director at a Madison Avenue advertising agency for five years, when she decided that it was time to move on to a marketing vice-president position at a leading New York luxury fashion house, KLLP. When she started at KLLP, a former Yale MBA acquaintance, Jeff Watson, sent her a Facebook message--coincidentally, he was now the VP for finance at K...

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LCC: Timora International

by Susan Ashford

Product Type: Leadership Crisis Challenge Publication Date: 05/2010 Product ID#: 1-428-930 Length: 21pages

Winner of the 2011 University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize This simulation presents students with a realistic business challenge that lies at the intersection of social, environmental and financial constraints. It encourages students to practice and gain critical leadership skills, such as using judgment to navigate an ambiguous crisis situation, thinking on the...

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Medical Marketing and Privacy

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 04/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-047 Length: 6pages

Joe Stoddard was a certified public accountant. He was in good health. He was an avid runner, exercised regularly, and went for regular health testing. His company offered a comprehensive health plan through Amalgamated Medical Services, and he spent extra premiums for full health coverage for himself and his wife and two children. He considered himself to be conscientious and resp...

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Augusta Richards: Plagiarism (A)

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 04/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-044 Length: 8pages

This is an ethics case about a dilemma facing Augusta Richards, professor of business at the Boston University School of Management. She has been informed by an international colleague in her field that one of her papers has been plagiarized and published in the Basic Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research. The perpetrators are a group of authors, including a doctoral student, a new...

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Augusta Richards: Plagiarism (B)

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 04/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-045 Length: 2pages

This is the second part of the three-part case, Augusta Richards: Responding to Plagiarism. Richards has made the first step toward rectifying the plagiarism of her work, and part (B) describes the reaction of Chris Beta, the esteemed professor in her field who was one of the authors of the plagiarized text.

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Augusta Richards: Plagiarism (C)

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 04/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-046 Length: 8pages

This is the third part of the three-part case, Augusta Richards: Responding to Plagiarism. In part (C), Richards has made the second step toward rectifying the plagiarism of her work. Part (C) describes the reaction of Terry Alpha, the first author of the plagiarized text, and how Richards and the perpetrating authors brought the matter to a close.

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Hank Thaler: Ethics of Disclosure (A)

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Mini-Case Publication Date: 04/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-040 Length: 4pages

This ethics mini-case describes a dilemma faced by Hank Thaler, the CEO of a hypothetical financial services company, Big Bucks Inc. Hank brought success to Big Bucks and its shareholders by fostering an open atmosphere in the company. He sought his employees’ opinions in respect to major decisions, and he vowed to them that he would “never lie to them, never hide bad news, always...

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Hank Thaler: Ethics of Disclosure (B)

by Andrew Hoffman

Product Type: Mini-Case Publication Date: 04/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-041 Length: 4pages

This mini-case follows up Hank Thaler (A). It describes the decision made by the CEO of hypothetical Big Bucks Inc., Hank Thaler, about whether or not to inform his employees of the secret sale of the company. Hank’s reasoning behind his decision as well as its consequences are explained. The case also challenges students to consider whether they would make the same decision that H...

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Heart of Reuters (A), The

by Jane Dutton

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 03/2010 Product ID#: 1-428-855 Length: 14pages

The Heart of Reuters (Parts A and B) describes the responses of Reuters America to the incidents of 9/11/2001. The Heart of Reuters Part A describes the range of adaptive responses to the events of 9/11, and invites the question, "What is it about the culture, structure, and strategy of Reuters that explains the organization's response pattern?"The Heart of Reuters is ideal for a d...

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Heart of Reuters (B), The

by Jane Dutton

Product Type: Mini-Case Publication Date: 03/2010 Product ID#: 1-428-860 Length: 4pages

The Heart of Reuters (Parts A and B) describes the responses of Reuters America to the incidents of 9/11/2001. The Heart of Reuters-Part B describes the range of the impact of Reuters' responses to 9/11 on employees. The Heart of Reuters is ideal for a discussion of leadership and change, crisis management, resilience, and compassion. The video, also available, adds to the discussi...

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Credit Cards for the Poor: HSBC

by Raed Elaydi

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 01/2010 Product ID#: 1-428-888 Length: 6pages

This case follows the vision of Dalshan Ismail, Executive Director of HSBC’s Sri Lankan credit card business for HSBC’s credit card venture in Sri Lanka. He realized that the bottom of the pyramid represented an untapped consumer market in which businesses, especially multi-national corporations (MNCs), can alleviate poverty with market solutions. To reach the Base of the Pyramid,...

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Russell Athletic Honduran Labor (A)

by Brian Talbot

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 01/2010 Product ID#: 1-428-826 Length: 24pages

Russell Athletic, one of the University of Michigan's primary providers of collegiate athletic clothing, is involved in a serious labor rights controversy. Russell had been a trustworthy and responsible supplier for years, but the University of Michigan committee was very concerned about Russell’s decision to close a manufacturing facility in Honduras, a move that received severe c...

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Russell Athletic Honduran Labor (B)

by Brian Talbot

Product Type: Mini-Case Publication Date: 01/2010 Product ID#: 1-429-010 Length: 4pages

This case involves a recent labor rights controversy surrounding Russell Athletic, one of the University of Michigan's primary providers of collegiate athletic clothing. Russell had been a trustworthy and responsible supplier to the University for years, but the committee was very concerned about Russell’s decision to close a manufacturing facility in Honduras, a move that had rec...

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BP & Whiting Refinery (B)

by Tom Lyon

Product Type: Mini-Case Publication Date: 12/2009 Product ID#: 1-428-736 Length: 4pages

This mini-case is a follow-up to the BP and the Whiting Refinery Case (A), which describes the situation facing BP America's President Bob Malone in late 2007. Malone could not understand where they had gone wrong while attempting to expand the refining capacity at their Whiting, Indiana plant. They had followed all the rules set out by the Indiana Department of Environmental Manag...

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A Difficult Course (A)

by Susan Ashford, George Siedel

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 09/2009 Product ID#: 1-428-866 Length: 5pages

This case is a cautionary tale about the consequences of cheating in business school. It is ideal for new business students. A Difficult Course (A) details the circumstances that led to the main character's slip in judgement, and asks students how to proceed. A Difficult Course (B) is the resulting outcome. This case was originally developed for both undergraduate and graduate leve...

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Leadership Crisis Challenge: Olick Int'l

by Susan Ashford

Product Type: Leadership Crisis Challenge Publication Date: 08/2009 Product ID#: 1-428-769 Length: 52pages

Winner of the 2011 University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize This simulation presents students with a realistic business challenge that sits at the intersection of social, environmental, and financial constraints. It encourages students to practice and gain critical leadership skills such as using judgment to navigate an ambiguous crisis situation, thinking on the...

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Corruption in Int'l Business (A)

by Robert E. Kennedy

Product Type: Conceptual Note Publication Date: 05/2009 Product ID#: 1-428-641 Length: 16pages

This note focuses on corruption in international business. It defines corruption, outlines the international laws governing bribery and corruption, and includes caselets that challenge students to put themselves in the shoes of high-profile decision makers who need to balance the ethical, legal, and practical nature of potentially corrupt situations. This note can be used with its...

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Plante & Moran: All You Really Need to Know

by Lynn Wooten

Product Type: Mini-Case Publication Date: 04/2009 Product ID#: 1-428-759 Length: 8pages

This short case is one of eight in a series of cases written for the Next Great Companies in Michigan project, which profiles great places to work in Michigan. Plante & Moran, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, is the nation’s eleventh largest certified public accounting and business advisory firm. The company has achieved success through a caring and collaborative culture and...

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Caritex Cooperative

by John Stocker

Product Type: Case Publication Date: 04/2009 Product ID#: 1-428-617 Length: 17pages

The founders of the Caritex Cooperative, Alex and Lucy Ivanov, created a business that was operationally sound but a financial disaster. Caritex was a meat processing and retail company located in Bulgaria in the mid-1990s. This case traces the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in emerging markets and asks students to examine the pro forma and projections of the company to determin...

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The Market for Printing Plates in Libya

by William J. Streeter

Product Type: Mini-Case Publication Date: 09/2008 Product ID#: 1-428-698 Length: 4pages

Managers of a European printing plate manufacturer must decide how to handle the ethics of dealing with a corrupt Libyan government. Competitors based in other countries remain active in the market while these managers are facing increasing pressure from watchdog groups.

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Leadership Crisis Challenge: Pharmeck

by Susan Ashford

Product Type: Leadership Crisis Challenge Publication Date: 09/2008 Product ID#: 1-428-585 Length: 14pages

Winner of the 2011 University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize This simulation presents students with a hypothetical yet realistic business challenge that sits at the intersection of social, environmental, and financial constraints. The student teams are asked to take on the role of pharmaceutical executives who have just received news that an Indian subsidiary of t...

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Corruption in Int'l Business (B)

by Robert E. Kennedy

Product Type: Conceptual Note Publication Date: 04/2008 Product ID#: 1-428-644 Length: 16pages

This note focuses on corruption in international business. It defines corruption, outlines the international laws governing bribery and corruption, and discusses the different actors and tactics to combat corruption. This note can be used with its counterpart, Corruption in International Business (A).