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Olympus and the Whistleblower President
Seijiro Takeshita; Christopher WilliamsCase IVEY-9B12M012-EStrategyThe newly appointed president and chief operating officer of Olympus Corporation of Japan was called to an emergency board meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss governance issues regarding corporate mergers and acquisitions. However, it would be no ordinary meeting. Since assuming the role of president in April 2011, the president had discovered evidence of corporate fraud on a large scale. He had commissioned an external auditor rep...Starting at €8.20
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Morita's Legacy and International Strategy at Sony
Christopher Williams; Nicole Duncan; Gregoire Thomas; Christopher Held; Ami LebendikerCase IVEY-9B12M082-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTwo years after the death of Sony’s visionary founder, Akio Morita, chief executive officer Noboyuki Idei faced a major crisis. Sony had just posted its worst performance in years and had to figure out if its current strategy needed to change. In pursuit of Morita’s vision to bring entertainment to the masses through innovation and applied technology, Sony had grown from a small Japanese company to a US$50-billion-per-year global corporation. As ...Starting at €8.20