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A Productive Partnership: The Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club and the Kauai Food Bank
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2002
The Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club creatively solves a sourcing problem in a way that supports local community economic development.
Creating Value in Inner City Supermarkets the Community Pride Way
Authors: Stegman, Michael A. M.; Lobenhofer, Jennifer S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Center for Community Capitalism, in the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2001
Employing a business model based on superior, customer-targeted service, community involvement and workforce development and retention that are uniquely targeted to his environment and customer base, Johnny Johnson has become the largest minority grocer in the nation...
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild and Bidwell Training Center
Authors: Heskett, James L.; Ramgolam, Roopchand; Wallack, Joshua
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2000
A super board is created to oversee activities of the boards of Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (an arts organization dedicated to serving "at risk" youth) and Bidwell Training Center (a job retraining venture) in Pittsburgh.
Aligning Corporate Performance with Community Economic Development to Achieve Win-Win Impacts
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2001
J.P. Morgan Chase (formerly the Chase Manhattan Bank) has created an organizational structure to drive business and community development across the organization...
Advanced Micro Devices
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2001
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), one of the largest semiconductor companies in the US, found itself facing a shortage of available, skilled technicians in 1995. The dramatic growth of manufacturing jobs at its Austin site produced intense competition among the semiconductor corporations for a local, skilled workforce. Expensive out-of-town recruitment costs and high turnover rates prompted AMD to act...
Urban Video Game Academy
Authors: Applegate, Lynda M.; Saltrick, Susan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Urban Video Game Academy was founded to enhance the academic and career prospects of urban youth. Demonstrates the opportunities and challenges of social entrepreneurship...
Partnering for Mutual Success
Authors: Mugica, Yerina; London, Ted
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of North Carolina
Publication Year: 2004
DaimlerChrysler formed an alliance with the Poverty and Environment in Amazonia Research and Development project (POEMA) to reforest cleared land in Brazil and make sustainable use of the region's existing resources. POEMA identified the use of coconut fibers in automobile headrests as a viable product and developed a low-technology production method for use by local populations.
The Shanghai Property Market and Hong Kong Developers
Authors: Enright, Michael; Mak, Vincent
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2004
Once considered Asia's most important economic city, Shanghai had by 2003 re-emerged as a vibrant and vital metropolis. It had become the leading centre for commerce, finance and transportation in the Chinese Mainland, as well as a major manufacturing centre...
The State of Connecticut
Authors: Porter, Michael E.; Miller, Kaia
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Describes the history of Connecticut's economy, its competitive challenges in the 1990s, and the steps taken to develop an economic plan for the state...
Dr. Iqbal Surve at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Hill, Linda A.; Stecker, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self-described “medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur,” was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer “a gentler capitalism” that stressed putting people before profits, and talent development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans.
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