Business Law and Corporate Ethics

CASE 11.1 PB Chemical Company Mac Brown knew something had to change. As the new

CASE 11.1 PB Chemical Company Mac Brown knew something had to change. As the new Vice President of Sales & Mar- keting for the PB Chemical Company, Mac understood that when yo…

CASE 11.2 Proactiv: How Three Critical Marketing Decisions Shaped a New Venture\

CASE 11.2 Proactiv: How Three Critical Marketing Decisions Shaped a New Venture's Future Facebook: Proactiv Bruce R. Barringer, Oklahoma State University R. Duane Ireland, Texas A…

CASE 13.1 Wash & Dry, Inc. Wash & Dry (WD) is a small manufacturing company with

CASE 13.1 Wash & Dry, Inc. Wash & Dry (WD) is a small manufacturing company with annual revenues for 2015 reaching $10 million. Located in Bellefonte, PA, WD produces vari…

CASE 13.2 How Safe Is Safe? Perfect Plastics Incorporated (PPI) is a small injec

CASE 13.2 How Safe Is Safe? Perfect Plastics Incorporated (PPI) is a small injection molding plastics com- pany that employs 50 people. The company is 10 years old, has a healthy …

CASE 13: Tesla Motors: Disrupting the Auto Industry Explain the rationale for Te

CASE 13: Tesla Motors: Disrupting the Auto Industry Explain the rationale for Tesla’s strategy. To what extent does this represent an optimal response to Tesla’s strengths and wea…

CASE 13: Tesla Motors: Disrupting the Auto Industry Grant, Robert, M., 2016, Con

CASE 13: Tesla Motors: Disrupting the Auto Industry Grant, Robert, M., 2016, Contemporary Strategy Analysis, 9th Ed, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Case Analysis Guidelines Case Ques…

CASE 14-2 Talbot Razor Products Company One of the products marketed by Talbot R

CASE 14-2 Talbot Razor Products Company One of the products marketed by Talbot Razor Products Company is an after-shave lotion called Enhance. This brand is sold through drugstore…

CASE 14. Can This Virtual Team Work? Jim Towne heads a newly formed information

CASE 14. Can This Virtual Team Work? Jim Towne heads a newly formed information technology team for a major international corporation. The team is composed of 20 profession- als w…

CASE 15.1 The \"Glass Ceiling Lisa Weber never doubted that she would be a partn

CASE 15.1 The "Glass Ceiling Lisa Weber never doubted that she would be a partner in her Wall Street firm. A graduate of a prestigious business school with a doctorate in economic…

CASE 15.1 The \"Glass Ceiling Lisa Weber never doubted that she would be a partn

CASE 15.1 The "Glass Ceiling Lisa Weber never doubted that she would be a partner in her Wall Street firm. A graduate of a prestigious business school with a doctorate in economic…

CASE 15Sephora Loyalty Programs: A Comparison between France and the United Stat

CASE 15Sephora Loyalty Programs: A Comparison between France and the United States Sephora is a beauty products retail chain founded in France by Dominique Mandonnaud in 1970 and …

CASE 16 Do-lt-Yourself Building Centres Do-It- Yourself Building Centres (DIY) i

CASE 16 Do-lt-Yourself Building Centres Do-It- Yourself Building Centres (DIY) is a major regional home centre retailer stores, all located within two Canadian provinces. I t comp…

CASE 16 Southwest Airlines Andrew Inkpen and exit, passenger fares, mergers and

CASE 16 Southwest Airlines Andrew Inkpen and exit, passenger fares, mergers and acquisitions, and In 2013. Southwest Airlines (Southwest), the once scrappy routes covered by only …

CASE 17 Active Endeavors Analyzes Its Customer Database Active Endeavors is an o

CASE 17 Active Endeavors Analyzes Its Customer Database Active Endeavors is an outdoor apparel and accessory wide and deep assortment, but he thinks there might be arn retailer lo…

CASE 17.1 Blumberg v. Ambrose 2015 WL 5604474 (E.D. Mich. 2015) CampDoc and Its

CASE 17.1 Blumberg v. Ambrose 2015 WL 5604474 (E.D. Mich. 2015) CampDoc and Its Missing Docs 2010, $1,000 in 2011, $6,250.02 in 2012, and $18,750.06 in 2013. Ambrose believed that…

CASE 19 Multilevel Marketing under Fire: Herbalife Defends Its Model INTRODUCTIO

CASE 19 Multilevel Marketing under Fire: Herbalife Defends Its Model INTRODUCTION Herbalife International is the third largest direct selling, multilevel marketing company in the …

CASE 1: LOOSE SECURITY e Company repairs automobiles and sells related parts The

CASE 1: LOOSE SECURITY e Company repairs automobiles and sells related parts The Wes and equipment. The owner; Bill Weston, recently read an article about employee theft and decid…

CASE 1: POOR RECEPTION Warwick Electronic Services (WES) is a small entrepreneur

CASE 1: POOR RECEPTION Warwick Electronic Services (WES) is a small entrepreneurship that services home entertainment equipment and small appliances. Seventy-five percent of its r…

CASE 1: POOR RECEPTION Warwick Electronic Services (WES) is a small entrepreneur

CASE 1: POOR RECEPTION Warwick Electronic Services (WES) is a small entrepreneurship that services home entertainment equipment and small appliances. Seventy-five percent of its r…

CASE 1: POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN ACTION Although the integration of patie

CASE 1: POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN ACTION Although the integration of patient-centered medical homes and account­ able care organizations into the health system is still emer…

CASE 1: POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN ACTION Although the integration of patie

CASE 1: POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN ACTION Although the integration of patient-centered medical homes and account­ able care organizations into the health system is still emer…

CASE 1: POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN ACTION Although the integration of patie

CASE 1: POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN ACTION Although the integration of patient-centered medical homes and account­ able care organizations into the health system is still emer…

CASE 1: POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN ACTION Although the integration of patie

CASE 1: POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN ACTION Although the integration of patient-centered medical homes and account­ able care organizations into the health system is still emer…

CASE 1: SUBVERSION OR TERRITORIAL RIGHTS Polymerics Corporation was still attemp

CASE 1: SUBVERSION OR TERRITORIAL RIGHTS Polymerics Corporation was still attempting to work the "bugs" out of its recently installed computerized MRP system. It had been six mont…

CASE 2 RUNNING FREE og owners constitute a large target market. Most mem aunch t

CASE 2 RUNNING FREE og owners constitute a large target market. Most mem aunch the new venture, a local advertising agency created a feel- bers share something in common: the desi…

CASE 2 RUNNING FREE og owners constitute a large target market. Most mem aunch t

CASE 2 RUNNING FREE og owners constitute a large target market. Most mem aunch the new venture, a local advertising agency created a feel- bers share something in common: the desi…

CASE 2 The Hospital Days Off Bart Metlen had been the hospital materials manager

CASE 2 The Hospital Days Off Bart Metlen had been the hospital materials manager for 3 months, and he was going crazy. Every day he was confronted with a stockout of something imp…

CASE 2-1 BUILDING UP OUR ASSETS: DHR CONSTRUCTION In August 2011, when the Dow J

CASE 2-1 BUILDING UP OUR ASSETS: DHR CONSTRUCTION In August 2011, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped under 8,000 from a high of almost 11,500, Richard Davis and Stephen …

CASE 2-1 Starbucks Corporation: Can Customers Breastfeed in a Coffee Shop? Audre

CASE 2-1 Starbucks Corporation: Can Customers Breastfeed in a Coffee Shop? Audrey Lincoff sat back in her office chair, looking at the numerous newspaper articles that covered her…

CASE 2.2 ILLINOIS OFFICE MACHINES, INC How Should You Handle Competition? You ar

CASE 2.2 ILLINOIS OFFICE MACHINES, INC How Should You Handle Competition? You are in the very competitive business of selling office chine, but it says nothing about longer lifeti…

CASE 22 store of n the of The Walt Disney Company: Its oversification Strategy i

CASE 22 store of n the of The Walt Disney Company: Its oversification Strategy in 2014 her John E. Gamble Texas A&M; University-Corpus Christi David L. Turnipseed University o…

CASE 28 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS In January 2015, executives from Samsung Electronics

CASE 28 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS In January 2015, executives from Samsung Electronics, by lower-priced smartphones the South Korean electronics giant, declared that they was facing sti…

CASE 3-12 Information System Project Steering Committee The Information System S

CASE 3-12 Information System Project Steering Committee The Information System Steering Committee in conjunction with administration has decided to implement a computerized physic…

CASE 3-16 Workflow Technology You started as the new director of HIM last week.

CASE 3-16 Workflow Technology You started as the new director of HIM last week. Your department began using workflow technology six weeks ago with the EHR. With the implementation…

CASE 3.1 Eminent Domain SUSEITE KEOS NONDESORIPT: PINK aAPBOARD riverfront to pu

CASE 3.1 Eminent Domain SUSEITE KEOS NONDESORIPT: PINK aAPBOARD riverfront to public access. Now the city wants to build a hotel. house sits above the Thames River in the Fort Tru…

CASE 3.1 Goll Te chno Inc Pennick\'s staff presents the two golfers whom Golf Te

CASE 3.1 Goll Te chno Inc Pennick's staff presents the two golfers whom Golf Technologies. Inc. (GT) relies on high-level scienti testing to design golf clubs that provide larger"…

CASE 3.2 Horizon Consulting Patti Smith looked up at the bright blue Carolina sk

CASE 3.2 Horizon Consulting Patti Smith looked up at the bright blue Carolina sky before she entered the offices of Horizon Consulting. Today was Friday, which meant she needed to…

CASE 3.2: WHOLE FOODS CAPITALIZES ON CONSUMER DESIRES FOR ORGANIC FOOD Summary W

CASE 3.2: WHOLE FOODS CAPITALIZES ON CONSUMER DESIRES FOR ORGANIC FOOD Summary Whole Foods’ market orientation and focus on customer satisfaction makes the company successful in a…

CASE 30: FRESHDIRECT: IS IT REALLY FRESH? With a bold promise on its website ent

CASE 30: FRESHDIRECT: IS IT REALLY FRESH? With a bold promise on its website entry page, Fresh- Direct claimed, “Our food is fresh, our customers are spoiled. Order on the web tod…

CASE 35 MIGHTY-MART\'s CONTRACT MANUFACTURING ISSUES Mighty-Mart is a large reta

CASE 35 MIGHTY-MART's CONTRACT MANUFACTURING ISSUES Mighty-Mart is a large retail chain that operates over 1,000 stores in the United States and Canada. The company has experience…

CASE 4.1 Manchester United Soccer Club Nicolette Larson was loading the dishwash

CASE 4.1 Manchester United Soccer Club Nicolette Larson was loading the dishwasher with her husband, Kevin, and telling him about the first meeting of the Manchester United Tourna…

CASE 4.2 F&C International, Inc. Alex Fries emigrated to the United States from

CASE 4.2 F&C International, Inc. Alex Fries emigrated to the United States from Germany in the early nineteenth century.1 The excitement and opportunity promised by the wester…

CASE 4.2 TOMS\'s One-for-One Business Model: Is it Sustainable for the Future? W

CASE 4.2 TOMS's One-for-One Business Model: Is it Sustainable for the Future? Web: www.toms.com Facebook: TOMS Twittor: eTOMS was added in 2014. For every bag of coffee that's sol…

CASE 4.2 The Home Improvement Project Lukas Nelson and his wife, Anne, and their

CASE 4.2 The Home Improvement Project Lukas Nelson and his wife, Anne, and their three daughters had been living in their house for over five years when they decided it was time t…

CASE 4.6 The Fraud Recipe for CEO\'s, Why Banks Hate Free Markets and Love Crony

CASE 4.6 The Fraud Recipe for CEO's, Why Banks Hate Free Markets and Love Crony Capitalism William F. Black On the "Technocrats" Running the Show in echnocrat, that could do the e…

CASE 5-N Iberia Airlines Builds a BATNA MADRID-One day last April, two model air

CASE 5-N Iberia Airlines Builds a BATNA MADRID-One day last April, two model airplanes landed in the to North America, where air travel is in tatters, and by dominating offices of…

CASE 5.2: ALICE’S SALES CALL Background Alice Befuddled joined Computing, Inc.,

CASE 5.2: ALICE’S SALES CALL Background Alice Befuddled joined Computing, Inc., 18 months ago. She was interested in working for a progressive company with growth potential. Compu…

CASE 6-1 CBN Railway Company CEO John Spychalski is concerned about a problem th

CASE 6-1 CBN Railway Company CEO John Spychalski is concerned about a problem that has existed at CBN railroad for almost 20 years now. The continuous problem has been that the lo…

CASE 6.1 Hudson Guitars Saul Hudson was walking around the empty building that w

CASE 6.1 Hudson Guitars Saul Hudson was walking around the empty building that would soon house his guitar factory. Accompanying him were an architect and the recently hired vice …

CASE 7-1 Some Rough Cost-Benefit Numbers for a \"Bridge to Nowhere\" A widely pu

CASE 7-1 Some Rough Cost-Benefit Numbers for a "Bridge to Nowhere" A widely publicized federal earmark in the 2006 transportation appropriation bill was $223 million for a bridge …