Hydrofruit Inc.: Ripe for Harvest or Rotten Tomato Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

This case in detail various issues, dilemmas and complexities of immigration, as it applies to business and American society in general. Megabank manager Judson Dillon is on the verge of completion of the $ 65 million equity investment in the large greenhouse tomato in the world, HydroFruit, Inc, which he believes is an attractive investment opportunity. At the same time, he suspects that the company is an employer of illegal immigrants. Immigration is now politically, socially and legally hot topic in the United States. Laws have been adopted to ensure that employers do not hire illegal immigrants, but many in the United States, said that getting rid of all the illegal immigrants was impossible, and to America's agricultural economy, destructive course. At first glance, HydroFruit was in compliance with all minimum requirements of the law, but that does not mean that some illegals do not leak, and Chief Financial Officer Dillon confessed one night that "no illegals, our industry is stopped dead." Since Dillon, this comment has strengthened his suspicion that HydroFruit no different from many other employers in agriculture, as well as his belief that it simply will not be practical for the Congress to break this important segment of the U.S. economy. However, Megabank could not invest in companies that it knew or suspected of operating illegally. "Hide
by R. Edward Freeman, Jenny Mead Source: Darden School of Business 10 pages. Publication Date: April 30, 2008. Prod. #: UV1166-PDF-ENG

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