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Darden University of Virginia (USA)
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Workaround: Which Integration Ideas to Explore?
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, Jenny; Leiner, Benjamin; Vambre, DavidCase DARDEN-E-0476-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAnna Bender, VP of product at Workaround, a large human resources (HR) software firm, had just been presented with a number of different recommendations from her employees on how to integrate the functionality and data from a recently acquired software company that had a leading chat app into Workaround’s offerings. Although she was impressed by many of the suggestions, Bender was also ethically conflicted about some of them. The business opportu...Starting at €8.20
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Ethical Product Design Framework
Leiner, Benjamin; Parmar, Bidhan L.Technical Note DARDEN-E-0502Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityTechnologists, particularly product managers, do not make design choices in a vacuum. Often, they have quantitative objectives they hope to achieve as part of their quarterly goals. But purely pursuing those objectives without considering risks to various stakeholders—for example, erosion of users' attention or users becoming politically radicalized—may result in considerable harm for not only the product's users but also for the organization. Th...Starting at €8.20
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Fake News and the News Feed
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Leiner, Benjamin; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0429Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityTessa Lyons was a rising star at Facebook. She had been the project manager in charge of news feed integrity for a little over a year, stationed at the front lines in the battle against misinformation and “fake news.” However, in early 2019, she faced an ethical dilemma that could define her tenure at the company and perhaps her career: whether to ban Alex Jones and the content from his platform, Infowars, from the Facebook news feed.Starting at €8.20
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Workaround: Which Integration Ideas to Explore?
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, Jenny; Leiner, Benjamin; Vambre, DavidCase DARDEN-E-0476Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAnna Bender, VP of product at Workaround, a large human resources (HR) software firm, had just been presented with a number of different recommendations from her employees on how to integrate the functionality and data from a recently acquired software company that had a leading chat app into Workaround’s offerings. Although she was impressed by many of the suggestions, Bender was also ethically conflicted about some of them. The business opportu...Starting at €8.20
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Ethical Product Design Framework
Leiner, Benjamin; Parmar, Bidhan L.Technical Note DARDEN-E-0502-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityTechnologists, particularly product managers, do not make design choices in a vacuum. Often, they have quantitative objectives they hope to achieve as part of their quarterly goals. But purely pursuing those objectives without considering risks to various stakeholders—for example, erosion of users' attention or users becoming politically radicalized—may result in considerable harm for not only the product's users but also for the organization. Th...Starting at €8.20
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Fake News and the News Feed
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Leiner, Benjamin; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0429-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityTessa Lyons was a rising star at Facebook. She had been the project manager in charge of news feed integrity for a little over a year, stationed at the front lines in the battle against misinformation and “fake news.” However, in early 2019, she faced an ethical dilemma that could define her tenure at the company and perhaps her career: whether to ban Alex Jones and the content from his platform, Infowars, from the Facebook news feed.Starting at €8.20
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vineyard vines and The Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants
Murray, Meghan; Loftus, Matthew; Dunklin, I.S.Case DARDEN-M-0909-EMarketingThis case, “vineyard vines and The Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants,” introduces students to a unique partnership in the social media advertising world. Preppy clothing powerhouse vineyard vines had a history of interacting with its customers by featuring user-generated content in its catalogs and on its website and decided to continue this tradition on social media by partnering with a group of fans called The Brotherhood of the Traveling Pant...Starting at €8.20
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Social Media Marketing
Murray, Meghan; Dunklin, I.S.; Loftus, MatthewTechnical Note DARDEN-M-0908-EMarketingThis technical note describes the history and benefits of social media marketing and discusses the ways in which it differs from traditional marketing. Seven major social media platforms-Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Snapchat, and WhatsApp-are covered in detail, and the authors outline the different techniques that companies can use with each one to uniquely engage with their customers. This technical note is used in a Darden ...Starting at €8.20
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vineyard vines and The Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants - Teaching Note
Murray, Meghan; Loftus, Matthew; Dunklin, I.S.Teaching Note DARDEN-M-0909TN-EMarketingTeaching note for product M-0909Starting at €0.00
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Workaround: Which Integration Ideas to Explore? - Teaching note
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, Jenny; Leiner, BenjaminTeaching Note DARDEN-E-0476TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityStarting at €0.00