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Bystander Intervention: USA Gymnastics and Beyond (B)
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Liedtka, Jeanne M.; Grushka-Cockayne, Yael; Santos, GraceCase DARDEN-E-0483-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis partially disguised, public-sourced case, a follow-up to “Bystander Intervention: USA Gymnastics and Beyond (A)” (UVA-E-0482), details what happened after top gymnastics coach Megan Peterson reported team doctor Larry Nassar to USA Gymnastics leadership for his abuse of young athletes. It turned out that many others had tried to report Nassar for various instances of inappropriate behavior and abuse over the years, but coaches, trainers, adm...Starting at €5.74
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Morgan Wallen: Tough Decisions at the William Morris Endeavor Agency (C)
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Clark-Hamel, Skyler; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0496-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityJay Williams, cohead of the Nashville office of the William Morris Endeavor (WME), must decide how to respond to an incident involving Morgan Wallen, one of the talent agency’s fastest-rising country music stars. Wallen, a white singer, was caught on home security footage using an ethnic slur with a group of white friends after a night of drinking. The following day, the footage was released to the public, and Wallen was swiftly disavowed by his ...Starting at €5.74
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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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Legal Analysis: Insider Trading Liability
Fetter, Trevor; Soltes, Eugene; Wahlquist, GrantCase HBS-320080-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThere are numerous restrictions against trading on material, nonpublic information (MNPI)-typically called "insider trading." This note describes the limitations facing managers and investors as enforced civilly and criminally within the United States.Starting at €8.20
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Morgan Wallen: Tough Decisions at the William Morris Endeavor Agency (B)
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Clark-Hamel, Skyler; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0495Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityJay Williams, cohead of the Nashville office of the William Morris Endeavor (WME), must decide how to respond to an incident involving Morgan Wallen, one of the talent agency’s fastest-rising country music stars. Wallen, a white singer, was caught on home security footage using an ethnic slur with a group of white friends after a night of drinking. The following day, the footage was released to the public, and Wallen was swiftly disavowed by his ...Starting at €5.74
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Software Sense: Making the Case for the Long-Term View
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, Jenny; Tomlinson, BrianCase DARDEN-E-0436Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityBeth Collins, CFO of Software Sense, an American multinational computer hardware and software developer, contemplated various ways that her publicly traded company could embrace a more long-term orientation in its quarterly reports and throughout its reporting ecosystem. Like other publicly traded companies, Software Sense faced constant pressure from investors and analysts to increase short-term financial-performance metrics, particularly in its...Starting at €8.20
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Richardson Eye Care and Surgery Center
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Stanton, Andrew; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0445Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityA consultant experienced in developing predictive models for his clients to improve business operations, Everett Blake, was working with the Richardson Eye Care and Surgery Center (RECSC), which wanted to explore ways to improve its no-show rate, classifying a “no-show” as an appointment not kept without 24-hours’ notice. After running variables through an XGBoost model, Blake’s company had identified predictive variables, which included age and ...Starting at €8.20
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Netflix and Dave Chappelle (A)
Kaufmann; Lauren; Botha; Helet; Mead; JennyCase DARDEN-E-0499-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave Chappelle. In the special—the last of six that Chappelle was contracted to make for Netflix—his targets included the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, plus others (LGBTQ+) community, particularly the transgender and nonbinary segments of that population. Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sar...Starting at €8.20
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Morgan Wallen: Tough Decisions at the William Morris Endeavor Agency (A)
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Clark-Hamel, Skyler; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0494-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityJay Williams, cohead of the Nashville office of the William Morris Endeavor (WME), must decide how to respond to an incident involving Morgan Wallen, one of the talent agency’s fastest-rising country music stars. Wallen, a white singer, was caught on home security footage using an ethnic slur with a group of white friends after a night of drinking. The following day, the footage was released to the public, and Wallen was swiftly disavowed by his ...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-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