Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings, 7th ed.

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6.13 The Benefits of Diversity: Remarks of Doug Daft, Former CEO of Coca-Cola 376
6.14 Seinfeld in the Workplace 380
6.16 Arizona Senate Bill 1070: Immigration Laws, Employers, Enforcement, and Emotion 382
6.18 Bloggers, Chat Rooms, and E-Mail: Your Employer Is Watching 386
6.21 The Glowing Recommendation 395
6.23 Ann Hopkins and Price Waterhouse 399
6.24 Exxon and Alaska 405
7.8 A Primer on Product Liability 441
7.9 Tylenol: Decades of Dilemmas 444
7.11 Ford and Its Pinto and GM and Its Malibu: The Repeating Exploding Gas Tank Problem 452
7.12 Toyota: Sudden Acceleration or Bad Drivers or Pesky Floor Mats? 458
7.16 The Mess at Marsh McLennan 465
7.18 Slotting: Facilitation, Costs, or Bribery? 472
7.19 Intel and the Chips: When You Have Made a Mistake 478
7.20 Sears and High-Cost Auto Repairs 481
8.1 A Primer on Covenants Not to Compete: Are They Valid? 495
8.5 The Coke Employee Who Offered Inside Information to Pepsi 506
8.6 The Compliance Officer Who Strayed 508
8.8 Simmons, Mervyn’s, and the Private Equity Firms That Bankrupt Them 511
8.9 Tiffany, Louis Vuitton, eBay, Landlords, and Knock-Offs 514
8.10 Copyright, Songs, and Charities 518
8.11 Microsoft vs. Google and “Snippets” of Books 519
8.12 The Little Intermittent Windshield Wiper and Its Little Inventor 520
Compliance Programs
1.17 Speeding on the Job: Obeying the Rules: Why We Do and Don’t 42
3.14 Michael Vick, Dogs, Rush Limbaugh, and the NFL 145
4.2 Not All Employees Are Equal When It Comes to Moral Development 160
4.11 A Primer on Sarbanes–Oxley 212
8.6 The Compliance Officer Who Strayed 508
Conflicts of Interest
2.11 What Was Up with Wall Street? The Goldman Standard and Shades of Gray 73
4.16 Arthur Andersen: A Fallen Giant 246
6.6 JCPenney and Its Wealthy Buyer 361
6.8 Docs, Pharmas, Medical Journals, Funded Research, and Pizza 363
6.9 The Analyst Who Needed a Preschool 367
6.10 Julie Roehm: The Walmart Ad Exec with Expensive Tastes 370
6.19 Jack Welch and the Harvard Interview 387
8.2 Boeing, Lockheed, and the Documents 496
8.3 Starwood, Hilton, and the Suspiciously Similar New Hotel Designs 501
9.3 Kodak, the Appraiser, and the Assessor: Lots of Back Scratching on Valuation 531
9.5 The Man Who Writes the Internal Revenue Code Has Tax Issues: The Rangel Round-Up 534
9.7 Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank 538
9.13 The My Tai Concession and the County Supervisor 546
10.6 The Cornell Researchers Funded by the Foundation 569
Corporate Governance
4.2 Not All Employees Are Equal When It Comes to Moral Development 160
4.3 Why Corporations Can’t Control Chicanery 164
4.4 The Effects of Compensation Systems: Incentives, Bonuses, Pay, and Ethics 172
4.7 Jett and Kidder, Leeson and Barings, Kerviel and Société Générale: Compensation-Fueled Dishonesty 192
4.9 Stock Options, Backdating, and Disclosure Options: What Happened Here? 200
4.10 FINOVA and the Loan Write-Off 206
4.11 A Primer on Sarbanes–Oxley 212
4.12 Bank of America: The Merrill Takeover, the Disclosures, and the Board 216
4.13 Dennis Kozlowski: Tyco and the $6,000 Shower Curtain 218
4.14 Bausch & Lomb and Krispy Kreme: Channel Stuffing and Cannibalism 228
4.15 Enron: The CFO, Conflicts, and Cooking the Books with Natural Gas and Electricity 233
4.17 The New Shareholder: Taking Over to Change the Culture 253
4.27 WorldCom: The Little Company That Couldn’t AfterAll 293
5.3 Transnational Shipping and the Pirates 322
6.1 Two Sets of Books on Safety 353
6.2 Sleeping on the Job and on the Way Home 353
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