For five years, Henry and James had been engaged as partners in building houses. They owned the equipment necessary to conduct the business and had an excellent reputation. In March, Joyce, who previously had been in the same kind of business, proposed that Henry, James, and Joyce form a corporation for the purpose of constructing medium-priced houses. They engaged attorney Portia, who did all the […]

The Chiemsee Knee Replacement Clinic (CKRC) is a sports clinic located at the northern edge of the German Alps. It specializes in knee replacements for skiers who come to CKRC from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. The clinic currently has one operating room (OR). However, since the clinic has dramatically more demand than capacity, the management team contemplates investing in a second OR. A lean […]

Do You Think Stakeholders Would Approve? • Microsoft predatory practices result in U.S. courts declaring it an illegal monopoly. At this writing, decision is still pending in Europe. (2001-current) • Hewlett-Packard board members spy on each other, questioning each other’s loyalty during stressful acquisition of Compaq and hiring of new CEO. (2005) • Tyco CEO charged with tax evasion, waste of corporate assets, resulting charge […]

Wolf, King, and others sold business “opportunities” in vending machines by taking out ads in newspapers throughout the country. When individuals responded, telemarketers called “fronters” would tell them of false earnings estimates, and those who could afford $16,000 to $25,000 for vending machines were turned over to “closers” who promised wonderful results. References were provided who were “shills”—they did not own vending machines but were […]

  1. Hannah Corporation, a U.S. corporation, owns 100 percent of the stock of its two foreign corporations, Red S.A. and Cedar A.G. Red and Cedar derive all of their income from active foreign business operations. Red operates in a low-tax jurisdiction (20 percent tax rate), and Cedar operates in a high-tax jurisdiction(50 percent tax rate). Red has post-1986 foreign income taxes of $200 and […]

Principle of Supportive Relationships Questionnaire To test whether a superior’s (and the organisation’s) behaviour is supportive, consider the following questions. a How much confidence and trust do you feel your superior has in you? How much do you have in your superior? b To what extent does your boss convey to you a feeling of confidence that you can do your job successfully? Does your […]

Class members begin by taking out a piece of paper and recording the appropriate answer for themselves next to each of the words below. Indicate to what extent you have felt this way during the past week, using a scale of 1 to 5 where: 1 = very slightly 2 = a little 3 = moderately 4 = quite a bit 5 = extremely or […]

Illegal Strike The employees of the Shop Rite Foods, Inc. (Shop Rite), warehouse in Lubbock, Texas, elected the United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers (Union) as its bargaining agent. Negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement began. Three months later, when an agreement had not yet been reached, Shop Rite found excessive amounts of damage to merchandise in its warehouse and concluded that it was being […]

Dr. Moshe Ashkenazi is a surgeon who was born in 1939. He had surgical privileges with the South Broward Hospital District. Pursuant to renewable contracts, he worked on-call shifts in several emergency rooms within the district for several years. In 2010, he was removed from the hospitals’ on-call schedules. In 2012, the district revoked his major surgical privileges. Dr. Ashkenazi sued the district for age […]

Your project team has finished gathering the requirements and developing the solution design. Your team is broken into two main groups: The first group consists of the project manager, business analysts, and management and is located in the United States. The second group consists of the development and QA teams and they are located in India. The WBS was developed based on estimates from the […]