MIT Sloan Leadership and Ethics Case Studies

Explores the challenges justice impacted people encounter when looking for a stable job. Explores the societal and economic impact of the fair chance hiring movement. Analyzes how a startup has incorporated a socially-conscious mission into its business model and how that mission might fair t...

Helps students understand the mindset of individuals that engage in fraud, and avoid making the same mistakes. The case is particularly relevant for understanding the incentives that lead to fraud in private companies.

Analyzes the growth potential of women’s sports, examines the strategic innovation process in the sports industry, explores how startup sports leagues are built, managed, and scaled, considers the role and importance of social impact in creating new ventures, examines the evolving role of profession...

On October 29, 2018, Indonesia’s Lion Air flight 610, a nearly new Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet, plunged into the Java Sea at 400 miles per hour, killing all 189 people on board. Eight days later Boeing issued a bulletin to all 737 MAX 8 and 737 MAX 9 operators stating that “erroneous angle-of-attack data” ...

Creates awareness on the importance of measuring workers’ financial wellness, enables discussion of the difference between market wages and living wages and highlight why benchmarking the market for frontline workers often results in high turnover, inability to focus on the job, low productivity and...

Lisa Baird became the commissioner of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) on Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Then, COVID-19 upended the sports world. On Thursday, March 12, as sports leagues around the country canceled or postponed their seasons, she announced the NWSL was cancelling pre-season match...

Explores the sporting, commercial, and societal challenges facing a professional sports organization and how these challenges are interrelated, reviews the role of data in strategy development on both the sporting and commercial sides of a professional sports organization, assesses the strategies us...

Surfaces the multifaceted nature of organizational change processes; shed light on how resistance to change can be managed and overcome in a context with highly-skilled, semi-autonomous professionals; and, highlight the Three Lens Framework on organizational processes.

In October 2000, with just a couple of weeks until the three-month-old car sharing startup closed on its first round of funding, Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase made an alarming discovery: the amount of revenue that Zipcars had generated for the month of September was half of what she estimated. After...

Facilitates a discussion on making decisions under pressure, when the available information is insufficient. Allows understanding of team dynamics and facilitating a productive discussion under duress when there is no single decision maker. Encourages consideration about managing people over whom yo...