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

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Business Discipline Index | 577
6.3 Cintas and OSHA 354
6.25 BP: Pipeline, Refinery, and Offshore-Drilling Safety 411
8.2 Boeing, Lockheed, and the Documents 496
8.3 Starwood, Hilton, and the Suspiciously Similar New Hotel Designs 501
8.4 Adam Smith: An Excerpt from The Theory of Moral Sentiments 505
9.16 Boeing and the Recruiting of the Government Purchasing Agent 548
Cyberlaw
1.15 Wi-Fi Piggybacking 41
6.17 Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube Screening of Employers 385
6.18 Bloggers, Chat Rooms, and E-Mail: Your Employer Is Watching 386
8.9 Tiffany, Louis Vuitton, eBay, Landlords, and Knock-Offs 514
Economics
2.6 P=f(x) The Probability of an Ethical Outcome Is a Function of the Amount of Money Involved: Pressure 62
2.13 Travel Expenses: A Chance for Extra Income 84
3.1 The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits 91
3.2 A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation 96
7.4 Subprime Loans—The Under-the-Radar Loans That Felled a Market 432
7.18 Slotting: Facilitation, Costs, or Bribery? 472
8.4 Adam Smith: An Excerpt from The Theory of Moral Sentiments 505
8.8 Simmons, Mervyn’s, and the Private Equity Firms That Bankrupt Them 511
Finance
2.11 What Was Up with Wall Street? The Goldman Standard and Shades of Gray 73
3.10 Fannie, Freddie, Wall Street, Main Street, and the Subprime Mortgage Market: Of Moral Hazards 121
4.5 The Subprime Saga: Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and CDOs 176
4.7 Jett and Kidder, Leeson and Barings, Kerviel and Société Générale: Compensation-Fueled Dishonesty 192
4.10 FINOVA and the Loan Write-Off 206
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
4.18 If It’s Legal, It’s Ethical; and Besides, Everyone Does It 257
4.19 A Primer on Accounting Issues and Ethics and Earnings Management 262
4.20 The Ethics of Bankruptcy 272
4.21 The Ethics of Walking Away 275
4.27 WorldCom: The Little Company That Couldn’t AfterAll 293
4.28 Bernie Madoff: Just Stay Away from the 17th Floor 311
6.7 The Trading Desk, Perks, and “Dwarf Tossing” 362
8.7 Jonathan Lebed: The Middle School Tycoon 510
Government
3.9 The Regulatory Cycle, Social Responsibility, Business Strategy, and Equilibrium 117
4.24 NASA and the Space Shuttle Booster Rockets 285
8.2 Boeing, Lockheed, and the Documents 496
9.1 The Fish Bowl Existence of Government 525
9.2 The Minerals Management Service: The Arms-Length Affairs with Oil Executives 527
9.3 Kodak, the Appraiser, and the Assessor: Lots of Back Scratching on Valuation 531
9.6 “I Was Just Following Orders”: The CIA, Interrogations, and the Role of Legal Opinions in the
Conduct of Organizations 536
9.8 Hiding the Slip-Up on Oil Lease Accounting: Interior Motives 540
9.9 Joe the Plumber, Child Support Records, and the Public Official’s Disclosure 540
9.10 Stanford University and Government Overhead Payments 542
9.11 Yale University and the Compensation of Professors for Government Research: Double-Dipping or Confusion? 545
9.12 Minority-Owned Businesses and Reality 545
9.14 Government Pricing and Finding a Way Around It 546
9.15, Taser and Stunning Behavior 547
9.17 The Prosecutors Who Withheld Evidence: The Senator’s Trial 551
9.18 The Duke Lacrosse Team and the Prosecutor 551
9.19 FEMA, Hurricane Katrina, and the Dilemmas of Regulation versus Human Life 554
Health Care
3.11 Whole Foods, John Mackey, and Health Care Debates 132
4.6 HealthSouth: The Scrushy Way 183
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