Written Case Form: Getting Medicine to Bosnia

BA 3102

Written Case Assignment Form

Getting Medicine to Bosnia

Instructions: Please answer the questions below. The length of your written case assignment form responses should be approximately one to one and a half pages, single spaced. This form will be graded on a pass/fail basis. To pass, you need to provide reasonably detailed and insightful answers to the questions below.

1. First, what defines a bribe? Is a restaurant tip a bribe? How about a corporate invitation to a luxury box at say a Phillies baseball game? What criteria can you list that distinguishes a bribe?

2. Who are the stakeholders to Gordon’s decision as to whether to continue the bribe payments or not? Please list them with a brief explanation.

3. As the case says, “What should Gordon do?” Do you continue with the bribe payments (these clearly are bribes)? If so, why; if not, why not? Please indicate which ethical perspective(s) (i.e., profit maximization, utilitarianism, universalism) support your decision.