Frequently Asked Questions
How do I search?
What is The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education?
How can I find out about Aspen CBE events?
What is “Social Impact Management?”
How can I suggest materials for inclusion in CasePlace.org?
What are some Business and Society keywords that I might try?
Keywords, Alphabetical List
Keywords by Topic
How do I know what Keywords to use?
How do I find the Topics and Keywords?
Can anyone register to use CasePlace.org?
What do I enter on the Keywords line?
What are Teaching Modules?
What are Partner Pages?
What is Giving Voice to Values?
What is CLEO?
What are Featured User Pages?
Who are the content providers?
How do I search?
CasePlace.org offers three ways to search.
Keyword
For the most open-ended search, you may do a keyword search by typing a word or phrase into the search box, (much as you would with a search engine like Google), and clicking on the arrow or your computer’s Enter button.
Browse
If you know that you are searching for something in particular—for example a document in a particular discipline, an article by a particular author, or a particular kind of product type (e.g. a teaching module or a web conference recording)—you may “browse” to find it by hovering your mouse over the relevant category in the list below the keyword search box, and then clicking on the sub-category for which you are searching in the sub-menu that appears. For example, it you hover over “Discipline” and then click on “Strategy”, you will see a list of all documents that have been cataloged as pertaining to strategy.
Refined/Advanced
You may do a multi-layered or “advanced” search by combining more than one search and both of the above techniques in one search. To do this, you may either use the “advanced search” page (which you may access via the button at the bottom of the search box), or you may refine your search by applying additional filters to your search using the search box on the left side of the record page. For example, if you are looking for a teaching module on low-wage workers that you know was written by Jennifer Johnson, you can click on the teaching module product-type, click again on “Author” and click on “Jennifer Johnson”, and type “low-wage” into the search box. If you wish to un-refine your search and return to previous results, you may remove filters in any order. Your filters will be listed under “Your Search” at the top of the page; click on “remove” next to the listed filter you wish to remove.
Search Results
The search results page you will see when you use any search option shows you ten results per page. You can sort these options by publication date, product type, how often they are downloaded, and how highly they are rated by CasePlace.org faculty users.
Have questions or need help searching? Contact Garrett Barr at garrett.barr@aspeninstitute.org.
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What is The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education?
The Center for Business Education (Aspen CBE) and its parent program the Aspen Business and Society Program (Aspen BSP) are part of The Aspen Institute, a think tank dedicated to fostering values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to providing a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues. One of The Aspen Institute’s 25 policy programs, Aspen BSP works to unleash the potential of business as a force for social good. As part of that effort, Aspen CBE is dedicated to helping business schools prepare their students to be responsible stewards of the environment and society through their business careers. In addition to hosting CasePlace, we sponsor faculty networks, publish a biennial alternative ranking of MBA programs, and give awards to outstanding scholars whose work focuses on sustainability issues in business. To learn more about Aspen CBE’s programs, please visit our web site www.aspencbe.org.
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How can I find out about Aspen CBE events?
Aspen CBE staff regularly hold online web conferences on social impact management topics, speak at academic conferences, and sponsor events such as case competitions and awards ceremonies. To stay up to date on Aspen CBE events visit www.aspencbe.org, or sign up to receive our monthly e-newsletter.
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What is “Social Impact Management?”
Aspen CBE coined the term “Social Impact Management” to describe an area of study that bridges business needs and wider societal concerns, examining how each affects the other. It’s often used as a catch-all term to incorporate social, environmental and ethical impacts in business and sustainability concerns.
Aspen CBE believes that by understanding the relationship between business needs and social concerns, we can develop and improve ways for both businesses and society to thrive, and that business holds the capacity to create tremendous good for society. As private corporations grow in size and influence, and as public pressure intensifies for corporations to address pressing social and environmental concerns, it become increasingly important that students be familiar with the field of Social Impact Management.
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How can I suggest materials for inclusion in CasePlace.org?
We greatly encourage members to send us their ideas to keep the site as dynamic as possible. Please email Garrett Barr at garrett.barr@aspeninstitute.org with your suggestions. Please be as specific as you can be about the title, author, and source of the item It can be materials you know about, have taught, or have written (whether it is distributed by another source or not). If you have an electronic copy of the document, please attach it to your email. We will review it for inclusion in CasePlace.org.
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What are some Business and Society keywords that I might try?
These lists of keywords -- click below -- were developed by Aspen BSP to guide your searching. You can use any keyword. These keywords suggest starting points and give you a conceptual map of the business and society domain. Keywords by Topic are clustered under the Topics used throughout the site.
Keywords, Alphabetical List
For a complete list, click here.
Keywords by Topic
For a complete list, click here.
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How do I know what Keywords to use?
You can enter any word on the Keywords line of a search -- a topic, country, author, company name, etc. To use thematic Keywords in the area of social impact management, you can refer to the list created by Aspen ISIB as we have mapped this terrain. You can view the keywords >clustered under Major Topics.
If you are not sure what term we have used (e.g., gender, sex, women, female) in coding the cases for you to search, the list of keywords will be helpful.
You can also enter more advanced (Boolean) searches on the Keywords line, using the operators AND, OR, NOT.
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How do I find the Topics and Keywords?
You can search for cases and related teaching materials, using Topics and Keywords that provide a conceptual map of the growing field of research on how business and society are linked.
Any keyword can be entered in the "search the site" box. See also: keyword tips for more ideas.
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Can anyone register to use CasePlace.org?
Yes. Anyone can register.
Our user base includes faculty members from business schools and Universities, students at business schools and from other areas, and members of the business community and other sectors of society who want to understand and incorporate Social Impact Management into the curriculum and the work place.
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What do I enter on the Keywords line?
You can enter any word(s) you want to use to find cases and related materials. For example, you could enter words from the case title if you know it, or the name of an author, or the country in which the case takes place. You can also enter any thematic word.
Look at our lists of Keywords (click Cases on the navigation bar to go to the main Cases page) to see how we've created a conceptual map of the field of business and society (or, as we call it, Social Impact Management by coding cases for some specific keywords. You can use any of these words or phrases to search.
If you leave the Keywords line blank you can guide your search from the drop-down menus.
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What are Teaching Modules?
Teaching Modules are sets of cases, references, and other materials that are organized around Social Impact Management-related topics and are designed to facilitate classroom teaching. Teaching Modules are intended to highlight the major threads in the debate around a topic, incorporating multiple points of view. They can be inserted into existing syllabi or be used in the creation of new syllabi, and include suggested questions that faculty might want to raise in the classroom.
Teaching Modules on Case Place are produced by Aspen CBE staff and faculty consultants. We welcome your comments on how you might use the Teaching Modules or ideas for creating or adding to Teaching Modules. Please contact Garrett Barr at garrett.barr@aspeninstitute.org.
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What are Partner Pages?
Partner Pages are a new feature on Case Place that allows university Partners to create a customized “channel” to showcase their most innovative teaching materials. These channels allow schools to highlight leading edge work in the arena of social, environmental, and sustainability issues within business education. Click here to view our Partner Pages. To learn more, contact Gina Wu at gina.wu@aspeninst.org.
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What is Giving Voice to Values?
Giving Voice to Values (GVV) is an innovative curriculum and research initiative that provides a new way of thinking about teaching values-driven leadership and ethics in business education. Aspen CBE helped to incubate GVV in partnership with the Yale School of Management, and GVV is now based at and funded by Babson College.
The entire curriculum along with faculty commentary, teaching notes, press coverage can be found and downloaded for free at www.GivingVoiceToValues.org. You can get a taste of Giving Voice to Values with the small, introductory collection available through our site.
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What is CLEO?
CLEO, the Curriculum Library on Employee Ownership, is an online repository of teaching and background materials on employee ownership.
For many companies employee stock-ownership plans can be a viable and rewarding strategy for sharing equity and profits with employees. According to the 2006 General Social Survey, between one third and one half of all employees participate directly in company performance through various combinations of employee ownership, stock options, profit sharing and gainsharing. Among the hundreds of highly successful public companies with some form of employee ownership are Apple, Google, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, and Starbucks. Employee-owned companies also feature prominently on Fortune magazine’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work for in America. Employee ownership represents a powerful tool for managers to align company and employee incentives, improve company-wide performance, and show appreciation to employees.
Employee ownership first generated attention among business academics when the phenomenon came to prominence in the 1970s. Since then, many case studies and numerous research studies have demonstrated the conditions under which employee ownership can work more and less effectively. Employee ownership offers an interesting perspective into “the theory of the firm” and the ongoing debate over stakeholder and shareholder participation and responsibility.
Historically, employee ownership has been explored most extensively in accounting and entrepreneurship courses. However, the positive outcomes generated by the creation of “ownership cultures” at many companies offer lessons for other disciplines as well.
Please contact Garrett Barr with any questions about how to use CLEO.
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What are Featured User Pages?
Featured User Pages highlight faculty users of Case Place, and show some of the ways in which they use Case Place materials in their classes. For a list of all Featured User Pages, click here.
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Who are the content providers?
| Case Publishers AICPA Case Development Program Association of African Business Schools (AAB) Asia Case Research Centre The Bridgespan Group The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College Darden Business Publishing ecch Harvard Business School Publishing IESE Publishing IMD INSEAD Ivey Publishing Laurier Institute London Business School North American Case Research Association oikos Senate Hall Academic Publishing Thunderbird – The Garvin School of International Management Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth World Resources Institute Yale School of Management |
Newspapers and Magazines
The Boston Globe The Chicago Tribune The Los Angeles Times The New York Times The San Francisco Chronicle The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post Journals Academy of Management Business and Society Review California Management Review Corporate Reputation Review European Journal of Marketing Harvard Business Review Harvard Law Review Global Governance Journal of Business Ethics Journal of Communication Management Journal International Affairs Journal of Management Inquiry Journal of Marketing Management |