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Cases in Corporate Ethics 5.1: Despite uncertainty and slowdown in the Indian economy, India has recorded sustained growth in merchandise retail during the decade 2002-2012, and is expected to do so i

Cases in Corporate Ethics 5.2: The case involves three key stakeholders – Bain Capital Partners, Lilliput Kids wear and Ernst & Young. It brings to light the classic case of breach of trust.

Cases in Corporate Ethics 5.3: Japan is putting pressure on India to sort out taxation, labor and other problems that Toyota, Mitsubishi and Honda are currently facing in India.

If the night watchman at the Swedish sales office had been watching -- which he wasn't -- he would have noticed on two of the twenty three video screens a single, tall, athletic figure softly wal

Ed Truitt, Manager of Finance and Administration for Sampson's American Sandpaper Division (ASD), returned to his office late on Friday afternoon.

In 2010, Brad Clancey faced a tough executive decision. He believed that his company, Specialty Materials Technologies (SMT) might have to be sold.

Nathan O’Rourke’s simple service contract became complicated when the contractor he was responsible for chose to work beyond the scope of the contract.

As a result of complying with a request made of al law firms to investigate gender equity, by his Bar Association, Merle Richards obtains evidence that his firm’s environment may not be gender ne

This critical incident represents a real situation in which a well-known billionaire television executive, Oprah Winfrey was caught in the middle of a sex scandal at her beloved Leadership Academ

This decisive critical incident describes events which took place within the community of Ferguson, MO following the shooting of an unarmed African American teenager by a white policy officer tha

This critical incident takes place in the Philippine office of an engineering design consultancy whose parent company is British.

Ann Igbo’s small business, Heritage Health Resources, was strapped for cash. Client insurance payments dribbled in and cash flow had become a problem.

In 1912, two explorers, Roald Amundsen and Robert F. Scott, were preparing separate expeditions to conquer the South Pole.

Production and profit objectives were not being met by the two-week old Leonidas Mining Philippines Joint Venture with Gab International, USA.

On the flight back to his home station, Captain Jack Thompson pondered his choices. He had to make the decision now because his unit was about to deploy to Afghanistan.

MannKind Corporation is a small biotechnology firm faced with a critical decision to find a partner to market its first product.

This case focuses on the Big Ten athletic conference’s fall 2012 decision to add Rutgers and the University of Maryland to the conference.

This decision case focuses on a consumer products company, Edwards Paper Company (EdCo), as it redesigns its supply chain for poly-wrap.

Triple Impact was a new social enterprise start-up firm founded by four university students in 2013. The founders believed that it was possible to serve others and make a profit.

In this article, we review the challenges to the current economic system and then proceed by presenting two competing paradigms—the economistic and humanistic paradigms of business.