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Recruiting: Additional Vignettes
Freeman, R. Edward; Werhane, Patricia H.; Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, JennyExercise DARDEN-E-0417-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThese vignettes highlight several ethical issues for MBA students as they begin to look for a job. They serve as a practical springboard for a discussion of topics, including one's obligation to classmates, the recruiting firm, and the school itself.Starting at €8.20
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When the Fur Hits the Fan (B)
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0329-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe animal shelter finally found a solution for disbursal of the furs they had received from the public for the fundraising rummage sale. The local wildlife center took them to use as beds for baby animals. The furs seemed to soothe them. The shelter had avoided a public relations problem with this solution, but it had also lost out on a possible $20,000.Starting at €5.74
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True Leadership: Leading with Meaning
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Newkirk, David; Spangler, LoganTechnical Note DARDEN-E-0364-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityLeadership is an enduring subject for research, writing, and discussion. There are almost endless theoretical and fundamental explanations as to what leadership is and what makes a good leader. The research has gone through various different phases. Intended for all audiences but specifically written for an Executive Education course, this technical note identifies some of the contemporary theories and prominent thinkers in the field of leadershi...Starting at €8.20
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Table Tennis for a Cause
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Avampato, ChristaCase DARDEN-E-0399-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAndrew Barton believes strongly in Table Tennis in the Schools’ (TTS) mission, and he genuinely likes its founder, Gene Jones. But he has learned that some of the funds that Jones has raised for the nonprofit to meet a $100,000 goal in order to receive a matching grant have been raised in a fraudulent manner. Barton thinks Jones’s recent actions are unconscionable, and he needs to decide the appropriate action to take.Starting at €8.20
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Pied Piper and Autonomous Vehicles
Freeman, R. Edward; Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, Jenny; Puhl, Nicole; Mahajan, Bhaskar; Boes, SeanCase DARDEN-E-0413-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityPied Piper’s first driverless car had been in an accident and had killed a 26-year-old jogger. Pied Piper felt a deep sadness for the victim’s family, and was disappointed and alarmed because the company had optimistically thought driverless cars would eventually lead to total elimination of driving fatalities. The company needed to decide if the car’s algorithm was responsible for this death and, if so, what the plan of action should be.Starting at €8.20
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Managing for Stakeholders and the Purpose of Business
Freeman, R. Edward; Parmar, Bidhan L.Technical Note DARDEN-E-0415-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe benefits or harms achieved by a business is determined in part by the choices that business leaders make. One important driver of these choices is a leader’s view of the purpose of business. This note: (1) outlines the history of debates about corporate purpose, (2) calls out some myths that persist in the way that people think about corporate purpose, and (3) introduces a view of business called “managing for stakeholders” that has become in...Starting at €8.20
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Facebook (B)
Freeman, R. Edward; Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0319-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityMiranda Shaw had decided to do a Google search on the two finalists for the open position in her company. Based on the photos she saw on her preferred applicant's Facebook page, she decided to hire the other applicant, whose Internet search returned no controversial results. But Shaw found herself wondering if it had been ethical for her to base her decision on a Facebook page, because she had not told either applicant that she would be using the...Starting at €5.74
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Inactive Duty
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Awad, MikeCase DARDEN-E-0358-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityWhat happens when personal ethics and practical concerns for family are at odds? A man who retained his native citizenship as well as attaining citizenship in his country of residency faces a dilemma: During a three-week trip to his home country with his two teenage sons, he learns that children of expatriates must register for the military if they visit their parent's country of origin for more than 10 days. The only way to get his sons out of t...Starting at €8.20
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When the Fur Hits the Fan (A)
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0328-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityHow should a nonprofit animal shelter deal with valuable old fur coats donated to its fundraising rummage sale? On one hand, selling the furs at the sale could bring in up to $20,000 to help the animals. On the other hand, there have already been angry complaints about the outrageous irony of selling "dead animals" to benefit live animals. Yet the women who donated the furs undoubtedly intended for the shelter to sell them for a profit. The B cas...Starting at €8.20
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Using a Framework to Create Better Choices
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Freeman, R. Edward; Wicks, Andrew C.; Harris, Jared D.; Mead, JennyTechnical Note DARDEN-E-0407-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIntuition can be a good guide for decision making when the current situation generally matches the situations in which the intuition was formed. But for novel or ambiguous situations, relying only on intuition can blind us to possible negative consequences by focusing our attention only on data that support our intuition. To reduce the likelihood of these errors and to better imagine and prepare for the outcomes of our choices, we use a decision-...Starting at €8.20