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Food for Thought: The 2008 China Milk Scandal
Authors: Lim, Vivien K.G.; Rajah, Rashimah; Prasad, Smrithi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
In 2008, a scandal in China involving milk products tainted with melamine (a chemical used in plastic production) brought regional and global attention to the country. The case illustrates how the pressure of rapid economic development resulted in measures to cut costs at the expense of consumer safety and health, bringing into question the ethics underlying business practices in the country.
Facing Challenges and Opportunities for Franchised Rural Health Services: A PSI/Myanmar Case Study
Authors: De La Cruz, Anna York; Montagu, Dominic
Product Type: Cases
Source: Global Health Group
Publication Year: 2013
Dr. Min Zaw, Director of the Health Services Department of Population Services International, Myanmar, sat still, deep in thought at the head of the conference room table in PSI’s Yangon office. Deputy Country Director David Valentine had recently informed him of a new funding opportunity: a large American donor was offering support for the expansion of program activities for market-based healthcare delivery in rural areas. However, Dr. Min Zaw knew that pursuing this new funding would mean making a commitment to transition the existing rural network into a completely new for-profit model. Though much of his team was in favor of seizing this opportunity and making the transition, others were concerned about the unknowns...
Governance Curricula for Employee-Ownership Companies
Author: The Beyster Institute
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Iinstitute
Publication Year: 2013
The Beyster Institute is proud to announce the launch of the complete picture for employee ownership governance education, the Governance Curricula for Employee Ownership Companies.
Ten Ways to Get the Most from a 360-Degree Leadership Assessment
Author: Levy, David
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2013
Ten top tips for getting the most value from a 360-degree leadership assessment.
Employee Ownership, Incentives and Environmental Sustainability
Author: Taylor, Mike
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2013
It is by now common for large corporations to employ several sustainability officers, occasionally in high-ranking positions. A less frequently used tool – employee ownership – may prove a more powerful sustainability over the long term...
Start-ups and Compensating Employees with Equity
Author: Bruner, Mike
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2013
Before running off and launching a start-up business, one of the most important things an entrepreneur must think through is how to best handle equity in the company...
The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
Author: Harris, Bob
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Walker & Company
Publication Year: 2013
After making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results first-hand, and in The International Bank of Bob he travels from Peru and Bosnia to Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and enterprising people we've ever met, while illuminating day-to-day life--political and emotional--in much of the world that Americans never see.
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Author: Sandberg, Sheryl
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Knopf
Publication Year: 2013
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.
Goran Kapicic at Actavis China
Author: Lowe, Joo Yong
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
The managing director of a multinational company turns a loss-making business into a profit-making venture by using his unique brand of leadership to change the organizational culture and develop a responsible proactive attitude in his employees.
Corporate Responsibility Coalitions: The Past, Present, and Future of Alliances for Sustainable Capitalism
Authors: Grayson, David; Nelson, Jane
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Stanford Business Books
Publication Year: 2013
It is estimated that there are more than 110 national and international business-led corporate responsibility coalitions. Given the growing reach and significance of these alliances, there is now a critical need for an informed and balanced analysis of their achievements, their progress and their potential.
Breakthrough: Business Leaders, Market Revolutions
Authors: Elkington, John; Braun, Susie
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Volans Ventures Ltd.
Publication Year: 2013
Business is increasingly critical in tackling the world’s great environmental, social and governance challenges. And at the heart of business sits the C-Suite, the grouping of senior executives who direct the enterprise. Breakthrough is addressed to them – and to those who advise them.
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Author: McMillan, Tracie
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Scribner
Publication Year: 2012
What if you can’t afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn’t escape as she watched the debate about America’s meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food’s true cost—which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters. From the fields of California, a Walmart produce aisle outside of Detroit, and the kitchen of a New York City Applebee’s, McMillan takes us into the heart of America’s meals.
Tailoring a Book Program for Managers: Why and How
Authors: Gelb, Betsy D.; McKee, Rob Austin
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2013
Offering testimonials from a range of sources, we assert that managers' book programs benefit participants and their organizations. To demonstrate how a book program tailored for an organization might work, we initiated a prototype among working master of business administration students, each of whom read one book as well as another book read by all. Thus, critical thinking became a component of the undertaking as well as familiarity with a variety of authors' ideas on a range of topics pertinent to managers.
Richard Gagnon at Granston Energy Inc.
Author: Gandz, Jeffrey
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
A procurement officer has got himself into some difficulties by trying to do what he thinks was "the right thing" in being responsive and accommodating for an internal client. In doing so, he has violated a number of "unwritten" ethical expectations of his role. He is wondering what he could have done differently and, specifically, how to handle an upcoming conversation with his chief executive officer about his future with the company.
A Private Boom Amid Detroit’s Public Blight
Author: Davey, Monica
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2013
Private industry is blooming here, even as the city’s finances have descended into wreckage...
Overcoming Short-Termism within British Business: The Key to Sustained Economic Growth
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Labour Party, UK
Publication Year: 2013
This Review looks at ‘short-termism’ within British business: the pressure to focus on short-term results to the possible detriment of the long-term health of a company, or even a whole industry. The investigation confirmed that short-termism constrains the ambition of UK business, holding back its development and inhibiting economic growth...
San Leon Energy: Hydraulic Fracturing in Poland
Authors: Rice, Condoleezza; Zegart, Amy; Myers, Astasia S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
San Leon Energy, an Irish energy firm, was committed to developing large unconventional shale gas reserves in Poland. To reach these reserves, San Leon needed to use a technique called hydraulic fracturing ("fracking”). The Polish government supported fracking…. Yet in 2011 and 2012, environmental protests worldwide grew, causing several countries, including Bulgaria, France, Ireland, Romania, and parts of Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom to issue temporary fracking bans.
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.
Finding a Common Language for Disaster-resistant Supply Chains
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2013
Disasters such as Superstorm Sandy, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the volcanic ash cloud that disrupted international airplane flights for several days in 2010 have highlighted the need for companies to better prepare for potential risks to their supply chains...
The Economy: Under New Ownership
Author: Kelly, Marjorie
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: YES! Magazine
Publication Year: 2013
To make an economy that serves us, we need to own the jobs and the businesses—together. How cooperatives are leading the way to empowered workers and healthy communities...
Climate Change
Authors: Larson, Andrea; Meier, Mark
Product Type: Notes
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2010
International concern over global climate change began in the late 20th century, when scientists saw a correlation among increasing atmospheric concentrations of certain gases, human activities emitting those gases, and an unusual increase in global ambient temperature readings. The scientific consensus on climate change's origins in human activities has begun to influence international law and corporate policies...
After the Oil Spills: Transformation at the JIC
Authors: Yemen, Gerry; James, Erika H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2010
What if you were responsible for the day-to-day operations at the Joint Information Center at the Unified Incident Command for the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Suitable for MBA, EMBA, GEMBA, and executive education classes, this case offers insights about leadership in complex situations...
How One Man Tried To Slim Down Big Soda From The Inside
Author: Charles, Dan
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: NPR
Publication Year: 2013
Many big food companies are caught in a dilemma these days. They want to rebrand themselves as merchants of health — Coca-Cola's new anti-obesity ads are just the latest example — but many of their profits still come from products that make nutritionists scowl. If there's one person who symbolizes this tension, it's Derek Yach.
How Manu Chandaria Mastered the African Market
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Interviews
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2013
In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton conducted by Ivorian entrepreneur and author Eric Kacou, Kenyan business tycoon Manu Chandaria reveals some of his secrets to business success in Africa. Chandaria discusses how other businesses and entrepreneurs can follow his lead and pursue socially responsible practices that benefit the communities in which they work.
Made in America: Fashion’s Fight to Save the Garment District
Author: Skarda, Erin
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: TIME
Publication Year: 2013
It’s a myth that no one makes anything in America anymore. The heart of the U.S. fashion industry is still beating in midtown Manhattan, where a stretch of factories, warehouses, showrooms and design studios between 35th and 40th Streets and 8th and 9th Avenues are responsible for creating much of the American-designed and manufactured clothing and accessories...
Interview: Matthew Arnold on Steering Sustainability at JP Morgan
Author: Gunther, Marc
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Guardian
Publication Year: 2013
Marc Gunther interviews Matthew Arnold, JP Morgan Chase's head of environmental affairs on asking clients uncomfortable questions and identifying environmental and social risk in fracking and other practices...
New Models of Business in Society
Author: Freeman, R. Edward
Product Type: Multimedia; Syllabi
Source: University of Virginia
Publication Year: 2013
In partnership with Coursera, Academic Director R. Edward Freeman will deliver a massive online open course or "MOOC." His course, New Models of Business in Society, will be available free of charge to people worldwide via the Coursera platform. The course will examine the critical role that business plays in society and the exciting new models of business that are changing the way that companies create value.
Alphatech India Limited: B2B Customer Retention
Authors: Wasan, Pratibha; Sharp, David J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The case presents the sequence of events that occurred when a global leader in automated information management technology had to compete fiercely to retain one of its key customers. It is intended to stimulate readers to explore situation restoration strategies for an existing technology provider that faces the emergence of a capable competitor. Discussion of such strategies involves ethical considerations and highlights the thin divide between ethics and diplomacy in selling efforts...
Overcoming Political Opposition: CNG Mandates in Delhi (A, B, C)
Author: Jha, Saumitra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
By the early 1990s, New Delhi was the fourth-most polluted city in the world. This case follows India's Supreme Court ruling in 1998 that all buses, taxis, and auto-rickshaws in Delhi be switched to clean fuels by March 31, 2001.
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...
Nonmarket Action and the International Counter-Money Laundering Act (H.R. 3886)
Authors: Feddersen, Timothy; Rahimi, Kimia
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2012
The case describes the international problem of money laundering and summarizes U.S. bank regulations aimed at reducing money laundering activities. The introduction of H.R. 3886 in 2000 was one in a series of attempts to formalize U.S. banks' monitoring of their customers. The case can be used to introduce the distributive politics framework for analyzing non-market issues and formulating nonmarket strategies in the context of government institutions.
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...
Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products (A)
Authors: Mukunda, Gautam; DeLong, Thomas J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Gerry Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses. Several months into his tenure, the division paid large retention bonuses to all of its professionals according to a contract negotiated before he joined AIGFP. These bonuses were seen by the public as going to the very people whose mistakes resulted in the need for a bailout in the first place and resulted in an unprecedented storm of public outrage...
Career Mentoring for Women: New Horizons/Expanded Methods
Authors: Dworkin, Terry; Virginia, Maurer; Schipani, Cindy A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Although women make up nearly half of the workforce in the United States, the number of women who hold senior management positions in large U.S. firms continues to be disproportionately low. We demonstrate that the use of strong mentoring programs holds great promise as a way to increase the number of women in senior management roles...
Building a Women’s Hospital in Coimbatore, India
Author: Bhardwaj, Gaurab
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 2012
The case relates an entrepreneurial effort by Dr. M. Govindarajan and her son Jay Govindarajan to build a high-quality hospital focused on women’s health in Coimbatore, a mid-sized city in India...
The Business Case For Happiness
Authors: Aaker, Jennifer L.; Leslie, Sara Gaviser; Schifrin, Debra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Many leaders don’t know how much importance to place on happiness, if the concept is even on their radar screen. However, research shows¯time and time again¯that there are bottom line benefits that happiness provides...
Under The Label: Sustainable Seafood
Authors: Zwerdling, Daniel; Williams, Margot
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Multimedia
Source: NPR
Publication Year: 2013
An NPR Special Series of reports on sustainable seafood, including issues around labeling, certification, and the challenges of the Marine Stewardship Council system.
Engyn in Iraq: Choosing Between Baghdad and Erbil
Authors: Rice, Condoleezza; Zegart, Amy; Nicas, Charles
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
When the Iraqi Oil Ministry held its first licensing round after the fall of Saddam Hussein, more known oil reserves were put up for bid than at any other moment in history. Allured by the opportunity, the chief executive of Engyn Oil & Gas (a fictional firm) began exploring ways to enter the Iraqi market. The CEO soon discovered that the endeavor was fraught with risks...
A New Story for Business
Author: Freeman, R. Edward
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
Professor R. Edward Freeman speaks about the role of business in society, and encourages the audience to think differently about business… “Capitalism is the best system for social cooperation invented—ever.”
The Innovation Bottom Line: Findings from the 2012 Sustainability & Innovation Global Executive Study and Research Report
Authors: Kiron, David; Kruschwitz, Nina; Haanaes, Knut; Reeves, Martin; Goh, Eugene
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review; The Boston Consulting Group
Publication Year: 2013
How companies that see sustainability as both a necessity and an opportunity, and change their business models in response, are finding success.
Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion
Authors: Mehta, Pavithra K.; Shenoy, Suchitra
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2011
Drawing inspiration from spirituality, and of all things, fast food franchises, Dr. V and his team (which now includes 21 ophthalmologists across three generations of his family) have created a global phenomenon. Infinite Vision is the first book to probe Aravind's history for the distinctive practices and values that unleashed its improbable success...
Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm
Authors: Koehn, Nancy F.; Khan, Nora N.; Legris, Elizabeth
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This is the story of one entrepreneur's vision and journey to create a market-leading, environmentally responsible business founded on the principles of product quality, organizational alignment and sustainability. Throughout, readers will encounter the challenges that Hirshberg, his colleagues and his family confronted as they (all) worked to create a business with a firm commitment to both sustainability and high quality...
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.
Memo to CEOs: There's More to Managing Than Profits
Author: Porter, Michael E.
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: ReutersTV
Publication Year: 2013
In this 21 minute interview, Michael Porter, a Harvard professor and expert on U.S. competitiveness, says chief executives must shift their thinking away from simply making money to also considering how their companies' actions affect the nation...
Novartis in India: Innovation versus Affordability
Authors: Nandkumar, Anand; Dhanaraj, Charles; Anand, Mridula
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
The case takes students through the company’s journey in marketing a promising anti-cancer drug that had global sales of US$3.9 billion in 2009. Novartis’ global success with this drug is being challenged by the changing institutional environment surrounding innovation and pharmaceutical patents. The company’s decision to patent the drug in India and challenge the institutional system of patent law is meeting significant resistance from those who argue that the drug is neither novel nor affordable for most patients...
Books for Change: Reorienting Business and Marketing Strategies
Authors: Singh, Davinder; Kalia, Vinod
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
Books for Change (BfC), a small publisher, produces books that focus on the social sector. ActionAid has provided financial support to BfC by covering its operating losses; however, it now needs to allocate greater funds to its own development activities and, therefore, has asked BfC to become financially independent. BfC needs to prepare the strategy and plan for making BfC profitable...
Power Forward: Why the World’s Largest Companies are Investing in Renewable Energy
Author: David Gardiner & Associates
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: David Gardiner & Associates, LLC
Publication Year: 2012
Companies are investing in renewable energy because it makes good business sense: renewable energy helps reduce long-term operating costs, diversify energy supply and hedge against market volatility in traditional fuel markets. Through two dozen interviews with Fortune and Global 100 executives and analysis of public disclosures, the report finds that clean energy practices are becoming standard procedures for some of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, including AT&T, DuPont, General Motors, HP, Sprint, and Walmart...
Ten Steps to Sustainable Business in 2013
Authors: Rowe, Anthea; Bansal, Pratima
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ivey Business Journal
Publication Year: 2013
This article lists and describes the ten initiatives that company leaders believe will enable them to shape a future that is more sustainable...
PerkinElmer: Old Instrument Reuse and Recycling
Authors: Veleva, Vesela; Montanari, Anna; Clabby, Peter; Lese, Jonathan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
This case examines the business options for implementing a company-wide product take-back program. It focuses on PerkinElmer, a $1.9 billion global technology company developing diagnostics and biomedical products for the environmental and human health sectors. The company, which operates in more than 150 countries, is committed to community engagement, sustainable and ethical business practices and eco-innovative products, including a commitment to continuously reducing the environmental and health impacts of its products throughout their useful lives…
Rio Tinto and the Resolution Copper Mining Joint Venture (A, B, C)
Authors: Werhane, Patricia H.; Starr, Justin; Mead, Jenny; Gorman, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
From its inception, the Resolution Copper Mining (RCM) joint venture faced a number of significant technical, political, and environmental challenges as it attempted to develop a strategy for mining a copper ore body located under the Tonto National Forest in Superior, Arizona.
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