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Ethics and Business Practices (A) (Spanish version)
Paine, Lynn SharpCase HBS-304S11Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityBecton 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 decided locally, depending on local circumstances and practices. The case contains numerous examples of troubling situations drawn from different regions of the world, as well as ba...Starting at €8.20
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Global Sourcing at Nike (Spanish version)
Hsieh, Nien-he; Toffel, Michael W.; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-621S01Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibilitysourcing from suppliers that meet compliance standards, challenging and encouraging suppliers to improve capabilities, and being responsive to consumer demand across the world.Starting at €8.20
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Discipline of Building Character (Spanish version)
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.Article HBS-98201Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibilityone we know to be right and another we know to be wrong. A defining moment challenges us in a deeper way by asking us to choose between two or more ideals in which we deeply believe. Such decisions rarely have one "correct" response. Taken cumulatively over many years, they form the basis of an individual's character. Defining moments ask executives to dig below the busy surface of their lives and refocus on their core values and principles. Onc...Starting at €8.20
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Does Your Company's Conduct Meet World-Class Standards? (Spanish version)
Paine, Lynn Sharp; Deshpande, Rohit; Margolis, Joshua D.; Bettcher, Kim EricArticle HBS-R0512HBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityCodes of conduct have long been a feature of corporate life. Today, they are arguably a legal necessity--at least for public companies with a presence in the United States. But the issue goes beyond U.S. legal and regulatory requirements. Sparked by corruption and excess of various types, dozens of industry, government, investor, and multisector groups worldwide have proposed codes and guidelines to govern corporate behavior. These initiatives re...Starting at €8.20
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Global Sourcing at Nike
Hsieh, Nien-he; Toffel, Michael W.; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-619008-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). This case explores the evolution of Nike's global product sourcing strategy, in particular ongoing efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers' factories. When the case opens in July 2018, Vice President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike's Global Sourcing and Manufacturing...Starting at €8.20
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Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Quinn, TomCase HBS-324007-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAs autonomy became a more significant part of modern life - most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas - ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less often than human-driven cars, making their adoption a net positive in terms of lives saved; deontologists worried about the implications of programming a car to swerve to kill its pass...Starting at €8.20
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The Business of Pain: Johnson & Johnson and the Promise of Opioids (B)
Snowberg, Erik; Fetter, Trevor; Schulman, Amy W.Case HBS-720423-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis case is designed to provide an engrossing overview of stakeholder capitalism through a vigorous discussion of the conflicts that can arise when trying to serve multiple stakeholders. In 2007, Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) subsidiary Janssen has to decide whether or not to launch a new opioid painkiller-the first such launch in 25 years-amidst growing concerns about opioid abuse in the U.S. The (A) case starts with the history of human interactio...Starting at €5.74
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Waste Concern in Dhaka: Scaling a Model for Urban Waste Management
Callendar, Steven; Golden, Joseph; Kavanaugh, BlakeCase SGSB-P104-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn March 2006, Iftekhar Enayetullah and Abu Hasnat Md. Maqsood Sinha, the cofounders of Waste Concern, a social enterprise based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and focused on developing innovative waste management solutions for cities in emerging Asia, faced their biggest challenge yet: scaling up their organization’s activities and impact. The previous fall, working with a Dutch recycling firm, Waste Concern had secured approval from the United Nations ...Starting at €8.20