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Cutting out the Middle-Man: The Case for Direct Business Involvement in Environmental Justice
Authors: McCrory, Martin A.; Langvardt, Kyle T.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Employing as a jumping-off point a recent high-profile and multi-faceted scandal involving Penn State University and decision makers affiliated with it, this article explores a number of ethical decision making lessons to be learned from that scandal and considers how those lessons can be applied to a variety of decisions faced by corporate leaders...
Ethical Leadership and the Dual Roles of Examples
Author: Langvardt, Arlen W.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Through the examples they set, leaders do a great deal to shape–for good or for ill–the culture of the organizations in which they serve. Employing as a jumping-off point a recent high-profile and multi-faceted scandal involving Penn State University and decision makers affiliated with it, this article explores a number of ethical decision making lessons to be learned from that scandal and considers how those lessons can be applied to a variety of decisions faced by corporate leaders...
Transparency in Corporate Reporting: Assessing the World's Largest Companies
Author: Kowalczyk-Hoyer, Barbara
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Transparency International
Publication Year: 2012
This study analyses the transparency of corporate reporting on a range of anticorruption measures among the 105 largest publicly listed multinational companies. Together these companies are worth more than US$11 trillion and touch the lives of people in countries across the globe, wielding enormous and far reaching power.
Sustainability at Tetra Pak: Recycling Post-Consumer Cartons
Authors: Sharma, Garima; Ghatge, Indrajeet; Laszlo, Chris
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
This case delves into the problems that Tetra Pak India faces in its ambitious goal of recycling post-consumer cartons in India, and the approach that the company adopts in overcoming the obstacles...
At Ford, Turnaround Is Job One
Authors: Shein, James; Bell, Matt
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2012
The case opens with the Ford Motor Company seemingly on the path toward bankruptcy. As the case begins, CEO Bill Ford has taken the unusual step of hiring an auto industry outsider as his replacement. Alan Mulally, a thirty-seven-year Boeing veteran and principal architect of the venerable airplane manufacturer's own massive and successful turnaround, wasted little time in getting about the business of remaking Ford...
Rio+20: Jeffrey Sachs on How Business Destroyed Democracy and Virtuous Life
Author: Confino, Jo
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Guardian
Publication Year: 2012
The world famous economist on corporate control, the search for happiness and why a multi-disciplinary approach is the only way to find solutions to sustainability challenges.
The Aquaculture Industry in the Philippines: Creating Social Values at Marina Gana Vida
Authors: Farhoomand, Ali F.; Wong, Shiu Kau
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2012
The main social objective of MGV was to help the poor living in the area through job or business opportunities so that some day they could lift their households out of poverty. Nobleza faced conflicting goals as he tried to scale up MGV's production. Should he replace the women workers with machines that could produce more jars of processed fish products per day? What could he do to balance his philanthropic and business goals in a social enterprise such as MGV?
EcoPost: Financing a Green Startup in Africa
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, EcoPost manufactures construction posts out of the thousands of tons of plastic waste produced daily by the city. However, they face many obstacles overcoming skepticism from investors, largely because of their relatively poor financial record keeping...
Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings -- A Corporate Governance Drama
Authors: Kirby, William C.; Manty, Tracy Yuen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a significant investment in the company. The venture capital firm was confident that it and the current management could work together to revamp the fortunes of China's leading electronic retailer. However, it did not anticipate the power Huang had behind bars…
Sustaining a Social Venture: Transformation of Annapurna Mahila Mandal into Annapurna Pariwar
Author: Basargekar, Prema
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business; Indian School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
AMM is a trust that provides micro credit and allied services to poor working women. It was established by a veteran freedom fighter and social entrepreneur and her late husband, a union leader, in 1975 in the wake of a decade-long millworkers' strike in Mumbai. AMM needed to develop a very clear vision as to which direction it should grow in order to become sustainable without losing its focus on the core objective of empowerment of poor women...
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