Ensuring Corporate Compliance

Ensuring Corporate Compliance

Problem: The police descended on the headquarters of a Fortune 50 firm and searched the premises. The firm, which has business interests in more than 190 countries, learned that the police and prosecutor were investigating multiple allegations of violations of the...
Preventing Counterfeit Products

Preventing Counterfeit Products

Problem: An association wanted to create a more effective public/private partnership to deal with the growing global issue of intellectual property protection. Specifically, it sought to set up a model law enforcement task force to help control product counterfeiting....
Getting to the Bottom of Hate Mail

Getting to the Bottom of Hate Mail

Problem: A letter was distributed to senior management of a major manufacturing company containing a drawing of nine stick figures being hung by the neck, with the caption “One down, nine to go.” The letter appeared just after one of ten black supervisors in this...
Reentry into Colombia

Reentry into Colombia

Problem: Ten years earlier, a large international industrial company had abruptly pulled all of its people out of Colombia and shut down its manufacturing operations in response to a deteriorating security environment that included the kidnapping of company employees....
Publicly Held, But Run Like a Private Company

Publicly Held, But Run Like a Private Company

Problem: Within two of weeks of a new CEO assuming office, several suspicious business practices came to light that appeared to favor a particular supplier and certain members of the executive team. Subsequently, a number of other improper activities, such as...
Managing a Domestic Corporate Crisis

Managing a Domestic Corporate Crisis

Problem: In the midst of its first labor dispute in decades, the board of directors decided to sell the company. The entire town – as well as surrounding communities and the state were torn apart by the labor strike. As a result, the possible sale of the company was...