THE TASK:

Imagine that you have been asked by the Board of Directors of your company to bring them up to speed on ENRON and (2) the AT&T-BELL SOUTH DEAL. They want to know what has happened up to this point and they want an ethical analysis of what we know about the questionable activities in the two situations. They want to emphasize the ethical issues in the situation so they don't repeat the mistakes that occurred in the cases you will be considering. They know that you have taken this course in SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF MANAGEMENT so they expect you to give a carefully argued TEAM presentation and analysis. They do not want the presentations and analyses to be too long --- about 2500 words would be quite sufficient. If you CLICK HERE you will find an outline that you are to follow in writing your report.

Your company is a strong believer in teamwork so the Board wants you to work as TEAMS  in putting together your report. Unfortunately, your other tasks and travels make it impossible for your teams to get together in a room for any length of time so you have to do most of your work over the Internet. Fortunately, QuickPlace offers you the ideal tool to develop TEAM analyses and presentations. You will notice that this project combines the features of a threaded discussion and the task of writing. The threaded discussion that leads up to the actual writing should contain at least 5 contributions from each member of the team. The merits of the report will be judged on the team discussion and the reflection of that discussion in the final report. The contributions should be content oriented in addition to any contributions that may be addressing the manner in which the work has been divided or how the report will be assembled. The contributions to this discussion should be made on an on-going basis. You should not wait until the end of the discussion period to make your contribution. Waiting until the end is not fair to the other members of the team and will jeopardize the success to the project.

The Board wants three reports; one from each of the teams. They want three reports to check one team against another. And then they want to recompose the teams for the second report. The teams will be composed by a random process.

Since the cases are so current you will have to use news magazines and newspapers for your research. I suggest Time and Newsweek and also The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. You probably all get The Wall Street Journal so you can go to WSJ.com as an easy resource. You can also take advantage of the Dow Jones Interactive website, <http://www.sba.udayton.edu/it/dji.asp>, which the School of Business Administration makes available to you. The link to the Dow Jones Interactive website is accessed form the SBA link identified above, but you will probably have to use a computer at the university to access this site.  Much good and accurate information is available from these sources. The library at this site is a particularly valuable treasure trove of references.

The first report is due Monday, February 27. The second report is due Monday, April 24.
 

DIRECTIONS: 1. Go to http://quickplace.udayton.edu/QuickPlace/mba652_ulrich/Main.nsf 2. Click on your "Team and number." [Team members are identified at the bottom of this page.] 3. Click on your "Team and number --- Discussion." 4. Click on "new." 5. Select "Page" and click "next." 6. Enter a brief title in # 1 and type your comment(s) in #2 and then click "publish". 7. Point to and click on the comment, response, or revision which you wish to address. 8. Click on "new" if you wish to make a new comment; click on "respond" to respond to what another member in the group has said; click on "revision" if you are making changes in a text that has already been started. You will always be creating a new page or editing an existing page.

ENRON TEAM 1 Cape, Kazmierski, Park, Pratts-Emanuelli, Stammen, West 02/20: Last Day for Contributions to Discussion 02/27: Due Date for Final Report	ENRON TEAM 2 Koegler, Pichler, Provenzano, Schoeplein, Weaner 02/20: Last Day for Contributions to Discussion 02/27: Due Date for Final Report	ENRON TEAM 3 Fernandez, Godby, Gruber, Oefinger, Pinkus, Sease 02/20: Last Day for Contributions to Discussion 02/27: Due Date for Final Report
AT&T-BELL SOUTH DEAL TEAM 4 Gruber, Park, Pichler, Sease, Stammen West 04/12: Last Day for Contributions to Discussion 04/24: Due Date for Final Report	AT&T-BELL SOUTH DEAL TEAM 5 Cape, Fernandez, Godby, Kazmierski, Pinkus, Provenzano 04/12: Last Day for Contributions to Discussion 04/24: Due Date for Final Report	AT&T-BELL SOUTH DEAL TEAM 6 Koegler, Oefinger, Prats-Emanuelli, Schoeplein, Weaner 04/12: Last Day for Contributions to Discussion 04/24: Due Date for Final Report