Wal-Mart: The Challenge of Managing Relationships with Stakeholders
1. Evaluate how Wal-Mart has ranked and responded to various stakeholders.
2. Why do you think Wal-Mart has had a recent number of ethical issues that havebeen in the news almost constantly?
3. What do you think Wal-Mart could do to develop an improved ethical culture and respond more positively to its diverse stakeholders?
Coping with Financial and Ethical Risks at American International Group (AIG)
4. Discuss AIG's corporate culture as to what role it played, if any, in its downfall.
5. Discuss the variables that may have caused AIG to need a bailout by the U.S. government and would it have been better to give, as Greenberg suggested, a bridge loan.
6. Discuss ethical decision making at AIG in relation to risks.
7. Discuss AIG's executives' ethical conduct and how a strengthened ethics program might help the company to strengthen the ethics of its corporate culture.