Ethics

Presents five situations in which professionals are faced with ethical dilemmas. “Hide by Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong, Scot Landry Source: Harvard Business School 4 pages. Publication Date: April 18, 2000. Prod. #: 800371-PDF-ENG

What would prompt an elected official take on what appears to be moral reasons with little immediate political gain? This implicit political ethics issue raised by this case, which describes some quixotic, a decade of Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, to block, through legislation, the export of so-called “non-registered” pesticides – that is, agricultural chemicals that […]

Entrepreneur Janice Schwartz hopes to develop their start-up companies by creating a technical advisory board and compensation to members at a discount stock company. Schwartz considers the six candidates who can help her online company formation in different forms: as potential customers, the media, Maven, a venture capitalist and technical consultant. The case offers ways […]

After longtime Pepsi bottler in Venezuela switched to Coca-Cola in an unexpected move, CEO Pepsi assesses the damage and trying to answer: What went wrong and what he could have done differently? At Coca-Cola to pay too much for filling? Was the whole negotiation ethical? How can a global strategy as Coca-Cola and Pepsi will […]

Highlights how several rounds of financing of works in practice, and show how the terms agreed in the early stage financing offers an impact in the later rounds of financing. Also shown, the ethical issues that entrepreneurs face as they build a “dot-com” companies. “Hide by Richard G. Hamermesh, Michelle Lutz Source: Harvard Business School […]