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Energy Efficiency, Innovation, and Job Creation in California
Author: Roland-Holst, David
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: University of California Berkeley
Publication Year: 2008
This study examines the economy-wide employment effects of California’s landmark efficiency policies over the last thirty-five years. Energy efficiency measures have, enabled California households to redirect their expenditures toward other goods and services, creating about 1.5 million jobs.
Next Street, LLC
Authors: Ruback, Richard S.; Yudkoff, Royce
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Next Street was a for-profit business that aimed to increase the growth, profitability and success of its client companies, thereby enhancing economic development, wealth and job creation in the inner city.
ApproTEC Kenya
Author: Rangan, V. Kasturi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
ApproTEC markets a range of technologies to improve the income of subsistence farmers and other small-scale entrepreneurs in East Africa. Having achieved considerable success in its first eight years, the two founders/entrepreneurs are seeking ways to scale the impact of its operations across Eastern and Southern Africa. The question is, what should they do to accomplish this?
Reciclare: Rethinking the Future
Authors: Fischer, Rosa Maria; Da Rocha Borba, Paulo; Bose, Monica; Schoenmaker de Pedreira, Luana
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network
Publication Year: 2009
In 2006, Reciclare, an association of scavengers of paper, cardboard and reusable materials founded by formerly homeless people from the city of Guariní, celebrated its 16th anniversary. Despite the experience it had gained over this time, its sustainability still faced countless challenges.
Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Commission on the Private Sector & Development
Publication Year: 2004
In this report to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Commission focuses on how business can create domestic employment and wealth, free local entrepreneurial energies, and help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Web-Conference: Low-Wage Workers in the Coming Economy
Authors: Blake-Beard, Stacy; Ernst Kossek, Ellen; Popovich, Mark; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
On November 20th, 2009, Aspen CBE hosted a web-conference on "Low-Wage Workers in the Coming Economy."
Examining the Sustainability of Wal-Mart and its Effect on Southeast Raleigh
Authors: Millar, Kerry; Holladay, Mathew; Beamon, Tom; Epstein, Ryan
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2006
The authors examine the merits of a 2006 decision by the Raleigh, North Carolina City Council to approve the construction of a Wal-Mart in Southeast Raleigh, an economically disadvantaged section of the city.
Myth and Measurement
Authors: Card, David; Krueger, Alan B.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 1997
David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers.
Dastkaari at Kashf Foundation (A)
Authors: Tirmizi, S.; Hussain, N.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Lahore University of Management Sciences (SEDC)
Publication Year: 2005
Kashf was set up in 1996 as Pakistan's first microfinance organization, providing microfinance services solely to women.
Providing Our Daily Bread at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2005
The Social Enterprise El Pan de Cada Día (Our Daily Bread) was born in 2003 as the first of its kind in Peru and the only enterprise of its kind to exclusively employ disabled persons.
Untapped: Creating Value in Underserved Markets
Authors: Weiser, John; Kahane, Michele; Rochlin, Steve; Landis, Jessica
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2006
Most companies mistakenly dismiss low-income markets as commercial wastelands. Yet many top corporations — including IBM, Ford, Hewlett Packard, and Texas Instruments — have discovered that investing in and partnering with underserved communities can yield significant profits...
Natural Capitalism
Authors: Hawken, Paul; Lovins, Amory; Lovins, L. Hunter
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Back Bay Books; 1st edition
Publication Year: 2000
In Natural Capitalism, three top strategists show how leading-edge companies are practicing "a new type of industrialism" that is more efficient and profitable while saving the environment and creating jobs.
Toyota Trains India Teens
Author: Lakshman, Natasha
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: BusinessWeek.com
Publication Year: 2008
Toyota's Bangalore institute aims to give poor teenagers a leg up and produce skilled workers for the subcontinent's auto boom.
House Energy Bill to Boost Green Job Training
Author: GreenBiz.com
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: GreenBiz.com
Publication Year: 2007
The House of Representatives passed a sweeping energy bill Saturday that included a provision directing millions of dollars toward training a "green" workforce...
Economic Opportunities Program of the Aspen Institute
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Product Type: Web Sites
Source:
Publication Year: 2005
The Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies that connect the poor and underemployed to the mainstream economy. We believe that alleviating poverty requires changing systems and transforming an individuals relationship to money, work and assets...
Wal-Mart in 2005 (A)
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Publishing Company
Publication Year: 2006
This case details not only the rise of Wal-Mart and its notable capabilities and strategies, but also how the retailer had inadvertantly found itself with such a negative reputation.
Business Creation in the Developing World: A Haitian Bakery
Authors: Tellis, W; Tucker, M
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2002
Initially drawn by a desire to provide assistance to the people of Haiti, a Jesuit university in the United States sent a fact-finding team to the country in 1997. A relationship developed between the university and the people of Fondwa, a village several hours from Port-au-Prince with a progressive peasant organization-Assosasyon Paysan Fondwa.
Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Authors: Jones, Geoffrey G.; Lefort, Alexis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
There are higher rates of female entrepreneurship in developing countries than developed countries, but necessity is often the main driver in lower income countries. Explores the challenges facing women arising from societal inequality, including lack of educational provision, and difficulties in securing funding.
The Sekem Initiative
Authors: Seelos, Christian; Mair, Johanna
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2004
"The Sekem Initiative" portrays a complex set of circumstances that frames Sekem's decisions to further grow and develop the initiative along its historical path of holistic development in the social, economic and cultural spheres...
Jobs and Social Innovation
Author: Kanter, Rosabeth Moss
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2013
Opportunity has become one of the most perplexing questions of our times. Job creation is an imperative, and it calls for innovation in social institutions.
Public Companies with Broad-based Stock Options: Corporate Performance from 1992-1997
Authors: Blasi, Joseph; Kruse, Douglas; Sesil, James; Kroumova, Maya
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2002
This report compares the performance of corporations that offer their employees broad-based stock option plans to those that do not offer their employees broad-based stock option plans.
Baltimore Fund
Authors: Rosenberg, Carin; Joseph, Ricardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Yale School of Management, the Program on Social Enterprise
Publication Year: 2004
After five years of actively contributing to its local Baltimore community, The Open Society Institute believed there was an opportunity to effect change on a different level...
Political Risk in the Kaesong Industrial Complex
Authors: Rice, Condoleezza; Zegart, Amy; McMurdo, Torey L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The Kaesong Industrial Complex is a 1.25-square-mile industrial park six miles north of the Demilitarized Zone in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. This case reviews the political and economic risks and opportunities of entering Kaesong through the lens of Bright Ray Apparel, a hypothetical South Korean textile manufacturing firm.
Managing Local Political Risk: Parking the Tata Nano (A, B, C)
Authors: Jha, Saumitra; Schifrin, Debra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
In 2006, Indian car maker Tata Motors was embarking on a new venture--building the world’s cheapest car, the $2,000 Nano. Tata Motors would be making a fixed investment of over $300 million in a manufacturing plant to build the four-door, rear engine car, and the company was weighing its options about where in India to locate the facility...
REDF Box Set — Social Purpose Enterprises and Venture Philanthropy in the New Millennium
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Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: REDF
Publication Year: 1999
REDF and its Portfolio members produced this three volume set to answer questions about practitioner perspectives, investor perspectives, and practitioner profiles.
Coca-Cola FEMSA's Contribution to Peace
Authors: Gonzalez, Rosa Amelia; Layrisse, Francisco; Lozano, Gerardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network
Publication Year: 2012
In 2003, the FEMSA Corporation – a Mexican company – acquired 100% of the shares of the largest franchise of the Coca-Cola system in Latin America, and placed itself at the lead of the sales of carbonated beverages and other soft drinks in different countries of South America, including Colombia, which had been struggling with armed groups since the 1970s. This case explores how Coca-Cola FEMSA included different initiatives in its sustainability strategy, aimed at supporting the process of peaceful demobilization...
Reimagining Capitalism
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Nation
Publication Year: 2011
This special edition of The Nation brings together a wide range of articles on new ways to shape capitalism, and to work on economic recovery.
The 2012 Election Cycle: An Embarrassing Circus, Perhaps, but a Great Opportunity for Employee Ownership, for Sure
Author: Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2012
It is time to make the case that employee ownership is a solution to a lot of what is wrong with our country, and we need to continue to promote the concept until we have 30,000 or 40,000 employee-owned companies rather than the static 10,000 we have had for the last decade or more. If we can do that, we will have put a large part of the country on a much stronger footing, and moved toward solving some fundamental economic and social problems...
Community Values and Land Use Decisions
Author: Nadler, Judy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2011
The town of Weldon is roiled by controversy over the opening of a new "Vegas-style" restaurant featuring scantily dressed waitresses, in this fictionalized case study by Center Senior Fellow in government Ethics Judy Nadler. How should the city decide whether to let the restaurant move in?
Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company
Authors: Lassiter, Joseph B.; Kiron, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
A proven automotive industry executive, but a first-time entrepreneur, Canny was CEO of Think Global AS (THINK), a privately held Norwegian maker of battery-operated electric vehicles (EVs) that were rechargeable through residential electrical power outlets. With this announcement, Canny was committing the company to support the broad North American launch of its line of EVs, among the very first commercially available, highway-approved safe cars in the world that produced zero greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions.
2b Design: A Creative Social Business in Lebanon
Authors: Jamali, Dima; Tarazi, Alexandra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
2b Design’s mission was eloquently articulated as to “restore the unseen beauty of the broken.” By the broken, it referred to the Middle East’s disappearing traditional heritage and to those people whose socioeconomic status or disabilities hindered them from leading a decent life.
Subsidies: Rationales and Trade and Investment Distortions
Authors: Conklin, David W.; Cadieux, Danielle
Product Type: Notes
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Subsidies now play a key role in business location decisions, and impact their international competitiveness. Foreign-based corporations may regard these lower prices as unfair competition in international trade. Nevertheless, subsidies are implemented to pursue certain social objectives, and so an intergovernmental pact that limits subsidies may diminish, rather that improve, the well-being of signatories.
Partnership for Lebanon and Cisco Systems: Promoting Development in a Post-war Context
Author: Jamali, Dima
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The Partnership for Lebanon (PFL), a major partnering initiative in a post war context, was initiated in September 2006 after President George W. Bush called for the assistance of U.S. companies to help in the relief and reconstruction efforts in Lebanon after the 2006 war. The five companies involved were Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, Ghafari Inc., Occidental Petroleum and Microsoft. They leveraged their core competence under five main work streams namely emergency relief/response, job creation/private sector revival, developing ICT infrastructure, workforce training/education and developing connected communities.
A City's Desert: No Apples in the Big Apple? (A, B)
Authors: Jones, Jamie; Rowland, Jennifer
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2011
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Physical Activity and Nutrition Program needed to come up with an innovative solution to the many health problems, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease that plagued residents of poorer areas in the city, while increasing economic opportunity for neighborhood residents.
Gone Rural
Author: Perold, Andre F.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Gone Rural employs 750 women in rural communities across Swaziland to produce handwoven baskets and other hand-crafted items. The company has a strong social mission to improve the economic situation of these women and wants to grow rapidly. Allows students to discuss whether and how for-profit and social objectives can co-exist.
How to Start an Entrepreneurial Revolution
Author: Isenberg, Daniel J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2010
Studies from around the globe consistently link entrepreneurship with rapid job creation, GDP growth, and long-term productivity increases. That's why the new holy grail for governments in both emerging and developed countries is to create an environment that nurtures and sustains entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, many governments take a misguided approach to building entrepreneurship ecosystems.
Pepsi-BASIX Partnership
Authors: Bajaj, Gita; Bhullar, Neelu
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
BASIX was a microfinance company with livelihood promotion as its key agenda. In 2005, PepsiCo entered an agreement with BASIX for promoting contract farming of potatoes in Jharkhand. The collaboration was successful in the first year and the project witnessed a very high growth in the second year. The second year results, however, were not as encouraging as the first year. The case is poised at this juncture...
Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (A, B, C)
Authors: Musacchio, Aldo; Goodman, Andrew; Qureshi, Claire
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek a six-month "standstill" on at least $4 billion U.S. dollars of its $26 billion in debt obligations. This case describes Dubai's development strategy in detail and narrates how, as part of that strategy, a series of state-owned holding companies accumulated billions of dollars in debt.
India
Authors: Iyer, Lakshmi; Schlefer, Jonathan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
In 2010, India faced the challenge of achieving the twin goals of double digit GDP growth and inclusive development. Would the Congress party, which won a strong electoral mandate in 2009, be able to achieve these goals in a context of rising internal conflict, fiscal constraints, regional instability and a global economic slowdown?
Stakeholders and Corporate Environmental Decision Making: The BP Whiting Refinery Controversy
Author: Stinchfield, Bryan
Product Type: Cases
Source: The CASE Journal
Publication Year: 2010
In 2007, BP (British Petroleum) sought and received regulatory approval to expand operations at its Whiting Refinery in northwest Indiana. Had the project gone forward as planned, the refinery would have discharged significantly higher levels of pollutants into Lake Michigan, but would have also contributed to economic development in the region.
Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of 'Dubai, Inc.'
Authors: Mayo, Anthony J.; Nohria, Nitin; Mendhro, Umaimah; Cromwell, Johnathan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid AI Maktoum has converted Dubai from a sleepy little coastal village into a world-class city, famous for its ambition, drive, and economic promise.
The Greening of DUMBO
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Edmondson, Amy C.; Prabhu, Abhijit
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
This year, the DUMBO BID must decide if it should continue its small actions or pursue a neighborhood-wide Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating while constrained by its budget, staff size, and the recession.
The ReUse People: Turning Scrap to Sales
Authors: Corbett, Charles J.; Powell, William G.
Product Type: Cases
Source: UCLA Anderson School of Management
Publication Year: 2009
This case discusses The ReUse People, an organization that specializes in deconstruction of buildings, with the aim of reusing as much of the materials as possible, hence keeping them out of landfill.
Jamii Bora and Kaputei Town: Affordable and Sustainable Housing for Urban Slumdwellers
Author: Christensen, Lisa Jones
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2009
In late 1999, Ingrid Munro founded a microloan organization in Nairobi, Kenya with 50 women who had previously been desperate street beggars. The organization, “Jamii Bora” (which means “good families” in Kiswahili), is based on the premise that very poor people can lift themselves from poverty through saving and business development.
The Clean Energy Economy: Repowering Jobs, Businesses and Investments Across America
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts
Publication Year: 2009
America’s clean energy economy is dawning as a critical component of the nation’s future.
Expanding Economic Opportunity: The Role of Large Firms
Author: Jenkins, Beth
Product Type: Cases
Source: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Publication Year: 2007
This report explores four key strategies companies can use to expand economic opportunity...
The Role of the Extractive Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity
Authors: Wise, Holly; Shtylla, Sokol
Product Type: Cases
Source: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Publication Year: 2007
This report explores four key strategies companies can use to expand economic opportunity: 1) creating inclusive business models; 2) developing human capital; 3) building institutional capacity; and 4) helping to optimize the "Rules of the Game."
Model Growth: Do Employee-owned Businesses Deliver Sustainable Performance?
Authors: Lampel, Joseph; Bhalla, Ajay; Jha, Pushkar
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: John Lewis Partnership and the Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2010
This research looks at how employee-owned businesses performed before and during the 2007-2009 recession.
High Road or Low Road? Job Quality in the New Green Economy
Author: Mattera, Philip
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Good Jobs First
Publication Year: 2009
The fact that an employer is engaged in a business that benefits the environment does not necessarily mean that the employees of that enterprise are going to be treated well.
Scojo Foundation: A Vision for Growth at the Base of the Pyramid
Authors: London, Ted; Christiansen, Molly
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Michigan
Publication Year: 2007
Through the third quarter of 2006, Scojo Foundation had trained 371 local entrepreneurs in India who collectively had sold over 29,000 pairs of glasses.
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