Gender Discrimination at Dell Inc. In October 2008, Jill Hubley, a former senior strategist in the Dell Americas human resource group, a Dell Inc. division located in Texas, filed a lawsuit against the world’s second-largest maker of personal computers. She alleged that Dell had systematically discriminated against female employees with respect to compensation and promotion. […]

Bribery & International Operations Cases Jail and a German Subcontractor (names are fictitious) Harold Johns found himself in jail in Germany. He was a vice president of Baranca Industries Inc., a U.S. firm that constructs and installs factory equipment. Unfortunately, he was the highest-ranking Baranca official in Germany while he was in Germany overseeing the […]

Downsize or Bonus Allocation Decisions Assume that you have just been placed in charge of the Claims Investigation Unit of a small insurance company based in Minneapolis. Your personnel department has provided the following details on your personnel. However, because your insurance company is in the midst of takeover discussions, you have been asked to […]

Is it legal, moral, or ethical for South Africa to override AIDS medication patents? Is it legal, moral, or ethical for South Africa to override AIDS medication patents? AIDS Medication in South Africa “South Africa and the drug companies have changed forever,” say David Pilling and Nicol degli Innocenti.1 South Africa is to the drug […]

BP’s Corporate Culture BP has had a record of mishaps affecting life, the environment, and the property of the company and other stakeholders. On October 26, 2010, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in the United States aired a fifty-three-minute TV documentary titled The Spill, which covered BP’s problems at its Texas City refinery, its Thunder […]

Questionable Values Produce Resignation at Goldman Sachs ETHICS CASE Questionable Values Produce Resignation at Goldman Sachs Allegations of serious impropriety and perhaps illegality surrounding Goldman Sachs’s contribution to the 2008 financial crisis have been well publicized. Allegations included trading for their own benefit directly against the interests of its clients (e.g., the ABACUS deal involved […]

Naked Short Selling—Overstock.com Lawsuit against Goldman Sachs & Merrill Lynch Short selling occurs when a seller borrows shares from a brokerage house and then sells those shares. At a later date, the seller buys the shares and delivers them to the brokerage house. If the price falls during the shorting period, then the short seller […]

Because the TD was neither a manufacturer nor a distributor of ABCP products, did the bank have a moral responsibility to Help in the restructuring of the commercial paper market? Because the TD was neither a manufacturer nor a distributor of ABCP products, did the bank have a moral responsibility to Help in the restructuring […]

Commission salespeople are paid their commission after they write successful insurance policies or consummate the sale of financial products. The Ethics of AIG’s Commission Sales The advantage of commission sales is that if the salesperson puts in effort and makes a sale, then both the company and the salesperson benefit. The salesperson receives a commission, […]

Major Business Law Assignment AssignmentTutorOnline Dear Section 51 B-Law Students, Below I have provided detailed instructions for the writing component of your work for the last three classes. As previously stated we will not be doing the Armand’s Bistro v. BP matter, (although we will be discussing the civil and criminal remedies against BP). Of […]