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

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604 | Topic Index
8.1 A Primer on Covenants Not to Compete: Are They Valid? 495
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
8.5 The Coke Employee Who Offered Inside Information to Pepsi 506
Conflicts of Interest
6.6 JCPenney and Its Wealthy Buyer 361
6.10 Julie Roehm: The Walmart Ad Exec with Expensive Tastes 370
8.2 Boeing, Lockheed, and the Documents 496
9.16 Boeing and the Recruiting of the Government Purchasing Agent 548
10.6 The Cornell Researchers Funded by the Foundation 569
Contracts
4.21 The Ethics of Walking Away 275
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
8.3 Starwood, Hilton, and the Suspiciously Similar New Hotel Designs 501
Contributions
3.8 Adelphia: Good Works via a Hand in the Till 113
3.15 Dayton-Hudson’s Contributions to Planned Parenthood, and Target and the Bell Ringers 146
10.1 New Era: If It Sounds Too Good to Be True, It Is Too Good to Be True 559
10.2 The Baptist Foundation: Funds of the Faithful 562
10.4 Giving and Spending the United Way 566
10.5 The Red Cross, New York, and Ground Zero 568
Cookie Jar Reserves
4.19 A Primer on Accounting Issues and Ethics and Earnings Management 262
Copyright Infringement
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
Corporate Governance
2.4 How Leaders Lose Their Way: What Price Hubris? 59
2.6 P=f(x)The Probability of an Ethical Outcome Is a Function of the Amount of Money Involved: Pressure 62
4.3 Why Corporations Can’t Control Chicanery 164
4.5 The Subprime Saga: Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and CDOs 176
4.9 Stock Options, Backdating, and Disclosure Options: What Happened Here? 200
4.11 A Primer on Sarbanes–Oxley 212
4.12 Bank of America: The Merrill Takeover, the Disclosures, and the Board 216
4.14 Bausch & Lomb and Krispy Kreme: Channel Stuffing and Cannibalism 228
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
4.26 Getting Information from Employees Who Know to Those Who Can and Will Respond 289
4.28 Bernie Madoff: Just Stay Away from the 17th Floor 311
5.4 The Former Soviet Union: A Study of Three Companies: PwC, Ikea, and AES 323
6.1 Two Sets of Books on Safety 353
6.3 Cintas and OSHA 354
6.16 Arizona Senate Bill 1070: Immigration Laws, Employers, Enforcement, and Emotion 382
8.4 Adam Smith: An Excerpt from The Theory of Moral Sentiments 505
Deontology
6.18 Bloggers, Chat Rooms, and E-Mail: Your Employer Is Watching 386
6.23 Ann Hopkins and Price Waterhouse 399
Discrimination
6.11 English-Only Employer Policies 370
6.12 On-the-Job Fetal Injuries 374
6.16 Arizona Senate Bill 1070: Immigration Laws, Employers, Enforcement, and Emotion 382
6.23 Ann Hopkins and Price Waterhouse 399
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