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Broad-based Ownership and Governance: Who’s Running This Company Anyway?
Author: Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Publication Year: 2011
After completing the course, students will have an understanding of the governance structures that control modern corporations, the relationship between ownership of equity of a corporation and its control.
Business Planning, Financing, Law and Taxation in Equity Ownership
Author: Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Publication Year: 2011
After completing the course, students will have the capacity to understand and evaluate the various tools and techniques available under current law and practice for applying corporate equity as a compensation and motivation vehicle for employees as well as a tax and cost effective vehicle for assisting in business succession and capital expansion.
Theories of Employee Ownership: A Look at Underpinnings and Ideas
Author: Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Publication Year: 2011
After completing the course, students will have an understanding of the philosophical and theoretical bases for broadening access to capital among wider ranges of the population as a way of strengthening the capitalist model.
The Foundation of Employee Ownership: A Brief History
Author: Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Publication Year: 2011
Employee Ownership 101 is designed as a concept exploration two unit elective course. After completing the course, students will have an understanding of the role of private capital in the development of wealth and the evolution of private capital from its earliest forms to our modern capitalist system.
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?
d.light: Selling Solar to the Poor
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
D.light is one of the leading manufacturers of solar powered lighting technology specifically designed for use by the world's poorest, bottom of the pyramid customers. Having sold over 7 million lights since 2007, the company has been relatively successful. However, sales to the very poorest customers have failed to reach penetration levels desired by management, and the company is currently struggling with an array of marketing techniques and strategies specifically targeting this historically difficult customer segment.
Re-booting Capitalism: The Action Agenda for Business
Authors: Grayson, David; McLaren, Melody
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Ethical Corporation
Publication Year: 2012
Capitalism is living in interesting times. Politicians, academics and activists around the world are debating the merits of the capitalist system, and how and if it could be improved...
The Rise of the Intrapreneurs
Author: Clay, Alexa
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Fast Company
Publication Year: 2012
Discovering a lost tribe in corporate America: The people trying to make it better from the inside.
Intrapreneuring in Action: A Handbook for Business Innovation
Authors: Pinchot, Gifford; Pellman, Ron
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2000
Based on the authors' experience helping companies launch over 400 new products and businesses, Intrapreneuring in Action gives managers at all levels examples and instructions on how to identify people within their organizations who behave like entrepreneurs.
The Sustainability Champion's Guidebook
Author: Willard, Bob
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: New Society Publishers
Publication Year: 2009
This guidebook helps sustainability champions at any level in a company lead a transformation to a smarter, more successful, and more sustainable enterprise...
Making Your Impact at Work: A Practical Guide to Changing the World from Inside Any Company
Author: Net Impact
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Net Impact
Publication Year: 2009
Making Your Impact at Work is based on the stories of innovative and inspiring social intrapreneurs in the Net Impact network. The first section of the guide summarizes themesNet Impact identified in the experiences of the intrapreneurs profiled and provides a framework and model for other changemakers to follow. The second section includes individual case studies of 13 corporate changemakers and contains details on the planning and execution of their initiatives.
Innovating from Within
Author: Grayson, David
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management
Publication Year: 2010
New research from Cranfield’s Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility investigates the role of a new breed of corporate animal - the social intrapreneur - who is determined to channel business strengths and market skills to tackle global sustainability challenges, in ways that are profitable for the company...
The Social Intrapreneur: A Field Guide for Corporate Changemakers
Author: SustainAbility
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: SustainAbility
Publication Year: 2008
The following Field Guide draws upon in-depth interviews with twenty social intrapreneurs from a diverse sample of multi-national corporations. Their work covers a wide array of environmental and social challenges and is in varying stages of development — ranging from incubation to market expansion. The characteristic common to all of these individuals is a passion for driving societal change through business in a way that generates long-term value for both their companies and communities.
The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
Authors: Dyer, Jeff; Gregersen, Hal; Christensen, Clayton M.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Harvard Business Press Books
Publication Year: 2011
In "The Innovator's DNA," authors Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen build on what we know about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move progressively from idea to impact...
Turning an Industry Inside Out: A Conversation with Robert Redford
Authors: Meyerson, Debra E.; Fryer, Bronwyn
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2002
Sometimes we are drawn to a type of work or to an industry that has aspects that repel us. Yet no matter how we rail against the status quo, most of us are reluctant to take action in the workplace. Faced with a choice between our values and our jobs, most of us either resign ourselves to the situation or leave. Yet there is a third way… Individuals can create large-scale change if they are willing to work incrementally from the inside. Movie stars aren’t usually considered sources of business insight, but Redford’s unique ability to bring about successful change and his theory about how Sundance has affected the film industry make his a different voice worth listening to.
Developing Business Innovators Who Integrate Profitability and Social Value
Author: McGaw, Nancy
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: The Handbook of Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being, Sage Publications
Publication Year: 2011
Expectations for the role that business can and should play in society are changing, creating greater demand for business leaders who are attentive to the independency of business success and social and environmental progress. This article outlines a new leadership development program, inaugurated by the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program in 2009, specifically designed to help meet this demand.
The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization
Author: Haass, Richard N.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Brookings Institution Press
Publication Year: 1998
How do you figure out what to do in a job? How do you get it done? How should you deal with demanding bosses? How can you get the most out of subordinates? What should you do to get along with difficult colleagues and handle powerful interest groups and the media? Just how can you succeed in a world where persuasion rather than direct command is the rule?
Employee Engagement and CSR: Transactional, Relational, and Developmental Approaches
Author: Mirvis, Philip
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2012
This article looks at the relevance of corporate social responsibility for engaging employees, including its impact on their motivation, identity, and sense of meaning and purpose...
Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World
Authors: Parish, Billy; Aujla, Dev
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Rodale Books
Publication Year: 2012
As we emerge from the recession, a generation is searching for practical ways to succeed financially while also making positive changes in the world. From energy to food to education, Making Good outlines how to do this.
Business Ethics
Author:
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The purpose of this course is to enable students to consider the role of ethics in business administration in a complex, dynamic, global environment.
Novo Nordisk: Managing Sustainability at Home and Abroad
Authors: Knudsen, Jette Steen; Brown, Dana
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Novo Nordisk is well known for striving to integrate its business activities in a financially, environmentally, and socially responsible way, and many Novo Nordisk employees proudly refer to Novo Nordisk as a “triple bottom line (TBL) company.” Novo Nordisk therefore faces new challenges concerning how best to organize its TBL program in a way that ensures a comprehensive approach throughout the organization, yet allows Novo Nordisk China to adopt initiatives that fit the Chinese business context.
Was Insider Trading Ahead of Takeovers a Problem?
Authors: Foerster, Stephen R.; King, Michael R.; Sonmez, Fatma
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
On January 6, 2010, Stanko Grmovsek was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for making profits of an estimated US$9 million over 14 years based on insider tips from his best friend from law school...
A Blueprint for Better Business
Author:
Product Type: Cases
Source: Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales Working Group
Publication Year: 2012
There is increasing recognition among business leaders that the internal culture of business, including its underlying values, beliefs and principles, has to be candidly examined to see in what way it has contributed to the breakdown of trust. Are business people too narrowly focused on the bottom line, on maximising shareholder value in the short term? Do these perspectives blind them to the effects of their actions on wider society? This document examines examples of some of the personal dilemmas and frustrations of the business life.
Somewhere Between Complacency and Fear
Author: Rodgers, Loren
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2012
Cecil Ursprung, the former CEO of Reflexite Corporation, once described his ideal organizational culture as being a permanent "state of mild dissatisfaction." You may not agree with the word "dissatisfaction," but I expect you would agree that innovation flourishes when employee owners are constantly seeking ways to improve the company and that happens when employees are not satisfied with the status quo. Creative energy flows when people refuse to walk away from situations that are "good enough.”
The Age of Autonomy
Author: Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2012
Why is Southwest so uniquely able to succeed where others can’t? The thing that makes Southwest employees a powerful force for success is that they are autonomous workers working toward a common goal...
The Voices of China’s Workers
Author: Chang, Leslie T.
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: TED
Publication Year: 2012
In the ongoing debate about globalization, what's been missing is the voices of workers -- the millions of people who migrate to factories in China and other emerging countries to make goods sold all over the world...
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Authors: Christensen, Clayton M.; Allworth, James; Dillon, Karen
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: HarperBusiness
Publication Year: 2012
Drawing upon his business research, Christensen offers a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He uses examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to unhappiness.
The Big 3 Roar Back
Author: George, William W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The "Big 3" - Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler - were all headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. By 2008 they were teetering, and two required federal government assistance to stay afloat. Within three years, remarkably, the Big 3 had turned around by improving competitiveness in quality, design and cost. Many saw the "Big 3" turnaround as proof that a unionized manufacturing industry could be revived through strong, decisive leadership on multiple fronts and improved union relations.
Frameworks for Dialogue and Research about Social Impact Investing
Author: Leonard, Herman B.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This note suggests frameworks that help to clarify important dimensions of social impact investment projects, distinguishing and clarifying key differences in approaches to social impact investments undertaken by different organizations and funders.
ideaForge: Mechanical Charger
Authors: Adhikari, Atanu; Deshmukh, Rama
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
ideaForge manufactured and sold two types of products: mechanical chargers and other conventional chargers such as bike chargers. The company faced two major challenges while running the business: how to market this innovative product to customers used to traditional mobile phone chargers, and whether the company should increase the product range or concentrate on existing products...
Infant HIV Diagnostics: Supply Chain in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Deo, Sarang; Ben-Har, Avidan; Shields, Bill; Naware, Mihir
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2012
Roger Osayende, a former management consultant, must advise the Ministry of Health of Ektu, a fictional country in Central Africa, on how to implement a new point-of-care diagnostic test for infants with HIV. A new point-of-care device was about to be introduced, which would obviate the need for this centralized processing and the resulting diagnostic delay. The key decision under consideration is where to place the devices to maximize their effectiveness...
Monsanto Inc. - Doing Business in India
Authors: Klassen, Robert; Chandrasekhar, Ramasastry
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The executive vice president of sustainability and corporate affairs at Monsanto was facing a difficult situation that could dramatically reshape the firm’s business. A decade earlier, the firm had introduced into India, through a joint venture, the first in-the-seed cotton trait biotechnology. Subsequently, three Indian state governments imposed a price ceiling on these biotech seeds. How should a technology innovator such as Monsanto deal with an unpredictable regulatory approval process in an increasingly competitive marketplace?
The Promise of Impact Investing
Authors: Rangan, V. Kasturi; Appleby, Sarah; Moon, Laura
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This note provides an overview of the impact investing industry, a new and burgeoning field of investments seeking to create social and environmental benefits while also generating a financial return...
Business at its Best: Driving Sustainable Value Creation
Authors: Coady, Margaret; Khan, Nijma
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Accenture / CECP
Publication Year: 2011
Can businesses sustain meaningful growth, drive innovation, and, simultaneously, address some of the most important societal challenges facing communities and nations all over the world? The CEOs whose insights form the basis of Business at its Best see the answer to that question as an unequivocal “yes.”
World Inquiry
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2012
The World Inquiry into business as an agent of world benefit is a worldwide action-research initiative that uses Appreciative Inquiry to learn more about the role of business in society. The best of the uncovered innovations are profiled in the Innovation Bank.
The Age of Responsibility, CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business
Author: Visser, Wayne
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wiley
Publication Year: 2011
Business is doing more than ever before to tackle issues like climate change, poverty, human rights and corruption. So why are things are getting worse, not better? Why are environmental and social trends still headed in the wrong direction? Wayne Visser argues that traditional approaches have failed, leaving business stuck in the Ages of Greed, Philanthropy, Marketing and Management. Using Web 2.0 as a metaphor, he shows how business needs to radically transform if we are to ever reach a true Age of Responsibility.
First, Make Money. Also, Do Good.
Author: Lohr, Steve
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2011
This article examines the concept of Creating Shared Value and cites examples of corporations that are are pursuing the idea that profit-making should be a priority of their social responsibility programs...
EcoCommerce 101: Adding an Ecological Dimension to the Economy
Author: Gieseke, Tim
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Bascom Hill Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2010
EcoCommerce adds an ecological dimension to the economy and is a new discipline for one of the planet’s biggest issues: how can we value the economic and life-giving services that our planet has provided free for millenniums. With an EcoCommerce foundation, the same economic and ecological attributes that resulted in the “tragedy of the commons” will provide those resource managers with new “opportunities of the commons” by converting environmental liabilities into ecological assets.
FSG
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: FSG
Publication Year: 2012
FSG is a nonprofit consulting firm specializing in strategy, evaluation, and research. FSG’s international teams work across sectors by partnering with foundations, corporations, nonprofits, and governments in every region of the globe to develop more effective solutions to the world’s most challenging social issues. Our goal is to help organizations and companies – individually and collectively – create greater and more effective social change.
Filling the Institutional Voids in Indonesia: Jababeka's Foray into Infrastructure
Author: Dieleman, Marleen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Due to infrastructure and logistics bottlenecks in Indonesia, the company moved into various infrastructure projects, including a power plant and a port. Even though the company had identified substantial business opportunities in the form of a captive market of industrial estate tenants, both projects suffered from delays due to regulatory complexity. The case illustrates the opportunities and risks of emerging market infrastructure projects...
El Paso's Sale to Kinder Morgan
Authors: Coates, John; Rose, Clayton; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
On October 16, 2011, El Paso agreed to sell itself to Kinder Morgan for just over $21 billion. Shareholders filed suit, arguing that the process was tainted by conflict and that a higher price could be obtained...
Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods
Authors: Coates, John; Rose, Clayton; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice in the face of changing legal norms...
Creating Shared Value in India: How Indian Corporations Are Contributing to Inclusive Growth While Strengthening Their Competitive Advantage
Authors: Borgonovi, Veronica; Meier, Simon; Sharda, Manjari; Vaidyanathan, Lalitha
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: FSG
Publication Year: 2011
FSG’s research in India has identified a number of highly innovative examples of shared value. In this paper, we highlight these examples and call on corporations, especially our largest ones, to lead the charge toward a strategy for growth that benefits all our citizens.
Competing by Saving Lives: How Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies Create Shared Value in Global Health
Authors: Peterson, Kyle; Kim, Samuel; Rehrig, Matthew; Stamp, Mike
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: FSG
Publication Year: 2012
This report highlights how pharmaceutical and medical device companies are creating shared value in global health by enhancing their competitiveness while simultaneously addressing the global burden of disease...
Our Baboon Moment: How Businesses Can Create Peace
Author: Fort, Timothy L.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Network for Business Sustainability
Publication Year: 2012
Timothy Fort, professor at the George Washington University School of Business, describes how existing business practices can support world peace.
School House
Author: Leipziger, Deborah
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2012
Rachel Weeks knew that she had what it takes to be an entrepreneur. She had the vision, guts, intelligence, and ability to work hard. Most of all she had a very good idea: to create School House, a clothing company that would pay workers a living wage. After several years of partnership with suppliers in Sri Lanka, School House faced severe challenges. Rachel decided to manufacture all of the School House product line in the United States. Will School House be able to continue its policy of paying a living wage in U.S.-based factories?
Employee Ownership Video Collection Teaching Addendum
Authors: Lee, Moses; Blasi, Joseph; Samel, Hiram; Richley, Bonnie; Goldbach, Justin F.; Boni, Arthur; Mathews, Anthony; Mackin, Christopher
Product Type: Multimedia; Video Collections
Source: The Foundation for Enterprise Development
Publication Year: 2012
The Employee Ownership Video Collection Teaching Addendum presented by the Foundation for Enterprise Development is divided into four sections, Teaching in Entrepreneurship Programs, the History of Broad-Based Ownership, Innovation and High-Tech, and Money and People. This video outline is designed to explore the ways to incorporate employee ownership in your class curriculum, learn about the early beginnings of employee ownership and how it has evolved especially in the high-tech fields, and to discover the culture of participation embraced by employee-owned businesses.
Video Collection Homepage
Author: Foundation for Enterprise Development
Product Type: Multimedia; Video Collections
Source: The Foundation for Enterprise Development
Publication Year: 2012
This Video Collection presented by the Foundation for Enterprise Development with the Employee Ownership Foundation and Aspen Institute contains videos from well-respected professors, students and business owners who speak about ways to use employee ownership as a resourceful business tool. They discuss the culture, participation and practices of employee ownership, as well as the facts and statistics of ESOP companies in the world today.
Level Headed – ESOP of Sundt Construction, Inc.
Author: Pruitt, J. Doug
Product Type: Multimedia; Video Collections
Source: No Limit Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
J. Doug Pruitt talks about the Sundt ESOP program.
Privately Held Employee Owned Socially Responsible Business, Sustaining Inspiration: The Challenges & Opportunities of Running a Privately Held, Employee Owned, Socially Responsible Business
Author: Cleary, Kevin
Product Type: Multimedia; Video Collections
Source: UC Television, UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Publication Year: 2010
Kevin Cleary, President and COO of Emeryville, California based Clif Bar & Company, explores how this privately held, employee owned company is also socially responsible. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series" [1/2011] [Business] [Show ID: 20472]
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