Four business students agree to conduct a distribution study for the world's foremost consumer-packaged-foods company, U.S. Dairy, Inc., in exchange for academic credit. U.S. Dairy's distributor (Athens, S.A.) is a respected but ailing company located in Panama City, Panama. The students are...

Distinguishing quot;businessquot; concerns from quot;ethicalquot; values is not only an unfruitful and meaningless task, it is also an impossible endeavor. Nevertheless, fruitless attempts to separate facts from values produce detrimental second-order effects, both for theory and practice, and...

Tim Bono decided not to accept the homosexual-themed work, and the customer filed a discrimination complaint against his business. While eventually the complaint was dismissed, both sides were left feeling unhappy and dissatisfied. See also the A case (UVA-E-0297)

Despite the incident at takeoff, the British Airways pilots, after discussion with the airline engineers at Heathrow Airport in London, decided to continue the flight uninterrupted. Although the plane landed safely in England, the decision to continue flying set off a hailstorm of criticism and...

This series of four brief cases (labeled A through D, UVA-E-0244 through UVA-E-0247) illustrates the various dilemmas that can arise in the fundraising arena. The focus is primarily on the academic setting

This series of four brief cases (labeled A through D, UVA-E-0244 through UVA-E-0247) illustrates the various dilemmas that can arise in the fundraising arena. The focus is primarily on the academic setting

This series of four brief cases (labeled A through D, UVA-E-0244 through UVA-E-0247) illustrates the various dilemmas that can arise in the fundraising arena. The focus is primarily on the academic setting

Written after the successful cloning of a cat, this case discusses the market for pet cloning, specifically, allergen-free cats. The case looks at pet cloning from the perspectives of (1) an animal-rights activist, (2) a pet lover, and (3) an individual allergic to cats. It also explores the...

This case series (see also the A case, UVA-E-0214) frames a common business situation in which the protagonist (in this case, a commercial lender who has made a mistake that could cost him his job) is faced with making a decision for which no outcome is desirable

This set of cases (labeled A through M [UVA-E-0192 through UVA-E-0203]) presents various vignettes, each with a specific dilemma about genetic testing and the ethical issues and difficult decisions that this testing presents to patients, doctors, employers and employees. UVA-E-0204 is a...