Business ethics

March 2025

To beat or not to beat the drum for DE&I? Coca-Cola Switzerland and Corporate Political Action

By Aharon Cohen Mohliver, Forrest Briscoe, Marco Clemente, Nick Mickshik

In January 2020 on the eve of a national referendum to pass new laws affording LGBTQIA+ communities formal legal protection against homophobia, Martin Kathriner of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (Coca-Cola HBC), Reyn ffoulkes from The Coca-Cola Company and their teams were weighing up the pros ...

May 2009

Terry Rhodes (B)

By Aleya Karim, John Mullins, Tiffany Putimahtama

This is part of a case series. 'Everyone says entrepreneurship is about risk-taking. But it’s not: it’s about minimising risks and taking careful risks.' Terry Rhodes' own words resonated with him as he reflected on the most critical decision of his career at Celtel International. Since its ince...

June 2011

Terry Rhodes (A)

By Aleya Karim, John Mullins, Tiffany Putimahtama

This is part of a case series. 'Everyone says entrepreneurship is about risk-taking. But it’s not: it’s about minimising risks and taking careful risks.' Terry Rhodes' own words resonated with him as he reflected on the most critical decision of his career at Celtel International. Since its ince...

November 2011

Military Contracting in a War Zone: Rohit

By Celia Moore, Quang Nguyen

This is part of a case series. This case takes two perspectives on the same set of case facts about a military logistics supplier gone wrong: one from the perspective of the Department of Defense contractor ('Bill') and one from the perspective of the Kuwaiti-based supplier ('Rohit'). The case devel...

November 2011

Military Contracting in a War Zone: Bill

By Celia Moore, Quang Nguyen

This is part of a case series. This case takes two perspectives on the same set of case facts about a military logistics supplier gone wrong: one from the perspective of the Department of Defense contractor ('Bill') and one from the perspective of the Kuwaiti-based supplier ('Rohit'). The case devel...

January 2014

Kweku Adoboli at UBS

By S. Wiley Wakeman, Celia Moore

The UBS case outlines how individual ambition and lax organisational standards and oversight can lead to consistent unethical behaviour resulting in a crippling loss at a large investment bank. Even though the industry had as recently as 2007 been subject to the ramifications of similar behaviour wi...