This in-class, 75-minute exercise creates a context for students to observe some of the challenges to cross-functional collaboration and offers insight into processes to achieve more successful outcomes. By demonstrating how a failure by compliance and business operations to work cross-functionally negatively impacts outcomes in the form of misaligned and ineffective corporate compliance procedures, students learn firsthand the importance of cross-functional collaboration. Given the ubiquity and importance of corporate ethics and compliance programs, this exercise fills an important pedagogical gap in management education.
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