NutriTec Board Meeting: A Minor Business Unit with a Major Problem?

This simulation setting is a board meeting in a hypothetical scenario involving allegations that the supply chain for fish used to produce pet food involves the use of slave labor on fishing boats. This information, which has only recently come to the attention of the board and management, cannot be immediately confirmed. The board meeting is interrupted by news that a demonstration is underway at one of the firm’s manufacturing plants. The task is to instruct management on how to respond to this crisis.

Teaching (i) board decision-making processes; (ii) crisis response; (iii) working as a team under time pressure; (iv) the division of labor between management and board.