You Make the Call
The Embargo Grinds On
1.
Describe the original decision made by the U.S.
government to impose a trade embargo on Cuba.
What conditions existed at the time, and what
behavioral forces may have come into play?
2.
In your opinion, is Thanksgiving Coffee’s Paul
Katzeff doing the right thing in working against
the U.S. embargo? Explain your opinion. If your
answer is yes, can you think of any additional
steps that Katzeff might take?
3.
Speculate on behavioral forces that might affect
Katzeff’s decisions.
4.
How might U.S. businesses best prepare themselves
for a possible elimination of the embargo? What
kinds of decisions do they need to be making?
ENDNOTES
1
Merchants of Green Coffee, “About the Merchants,” www
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Organic Shade-Grown Coffee from Merchants of Green Coffee,”
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accessed on September 5, 2013; Thanksgiving Coffee Co., “End the
Embargo on Cuba,” www.endtheembargo.com, accessed on
September 5, 2013; Larry Luxner, “Coffee with a Cause,”
Tea &
Coffee Trade Journal
, www.teaandcoffee.net, accessed on Septem-
ber 5, 2013; Carol J. Williams, “Some Cuban Exiles Hope Obama
Can Help,”
Los Angeles Times
, November 10, 2008, http://articles
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“Business Urges Obama to Loosen Cuba Embargo,” December 4,
2008,
Reuters
, www.reuters.com, accessed on September 5, 2013;
“Cuba Embargo Benefits European, Canadian Firms,”
Reuters
,
March 20, 2008, www.reuters.com, accessed on September 5, 2013;
Paul Katzeff, “Cooperatives,” Thanksgiving Coffee Co., www
.thanksgivingcoffee.com, accessed on September 5, 2013.
2
Richard Priem, “Executive Judgment, Organizational Congru-
ence, and Firm Performance,”
Organization Science
, August
1994, pp. 421–432. See also R. Duane Ireland and C. Chet Miller,
“Decision-Making and Firm Success,”
Academy of Management
Executive
, 2004, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 8–12.
3
Paul Nutt, “The Formulation Processes and Tactics Used in
Organizational Decision Making,”
Organization Science
, May
1993, pp. 226–240.
4
For a review of decision making, see E. Frank Harrison,
The
Managerial Decision Making Process
, 5th ed. (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1999). See also Elke U. Weber and Eric J. Johnson, “Mindful
Judgment and Decision Making,” in Susan T. Fiske, Daniel L. Schacter,
and Robert Sternberg (eds.),
Annual Review of Psychology 2009
(Palo
Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 2009), pp. 53–86.
5
“Too Much Cash Is a Problem?”
USA Today
, February 12, 2013,
p. 1B.
6
George P. Huber,
Managerial Decision Making
(Glenview, IL:
Scott, Foresman, 1980).
7
For an example, see Paul D. Collins, Lori V. Ryan, and Sharon F.
Matusik, “Programmable Automation and the Locus of Decision-
Making Power,”
Journal of Management
, 1999, Vol. 25, No.1,
pp. 29–53.
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