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Ronald Reagan's Speech on Project Economic Justice
Author: Reagan, Ronald
Product Type: Multimedia; Video Collections
Source: Center for Economic and Social Justice -- cesj.org
Publication Year: 1987
The Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice--In 1985, Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ) members initiated and mobilized bipartisan support for Congressional legislation which established the Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice under President Ronald Reagan. Project Economic Justice, which was first conceived in a strategy paper authored by CESJ, offered a revolutionary economic alternative to military solutions to regional conflicts in Central America and the Caribbean. Enacted as part of the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985, this legislation created the first presidential task force to be totally funded with private donations and supported by both the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO. Former Ambassador to the Organization of American States and the European Community, The Hon. J. William Middendorf II, served as Chairman. CESJ's president, Norman G. Kurland, served as deputy chairman.
ESOP: Everything You Need to Know About ESOPs (Part I and II)
Author: Gilbert, Ron
Product Type: Multimedia; Video Collections
Source: ESOP Services Inc
Publication Year: 2011
Ronald J. Gilbert, President of ESOP Services, Inc,. discusses the leveraged Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), highlighting the mechanics, advantages, and financing sources. ESOP Services, Inc.'s professionals are experienced in preliminary analysis, plan and financial transaction design, implementation, financing, ESOP termination and litigation support.
We the Owners: Employees Expanding the American Dream Official Trailer
Authors: Foundation for Enterprise Development; Passage Productions
Product Type: Multimedia; Video Collections
Source: Foundation for Enterprise Development
Publication Year: 2012
Integrating art, business and education, this documentary film captures inspiring stories of employees and founders from three companies, each structured with distinct forms of broad-based employee ownership, who share an insider’s view of shared wealth and responsibility, high involvement culture, and their approaches and challenges in creating opportunity and prosperity through ownership.
Sarvajal: Water for All
Authors: Macomber, John D.; Sinha, Mona
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The company seeks to provide potable water services to rural and urban India where the public infrastructure does not exist. Using a franchising model that relies on seasoned local entrepreneurs, communication technology that monitors flows and quality, payment technology that takes cash out of the equation, and a "capital light" leasing model, the company hopes to create and share a new business model.
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…
Arbor Days: Trumann Landscaping and ACCION USA
Authors: Fairchild, Gregory B.; Race, Natalie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Trumann Landscaping is environmentally sustainable, experienced, and interested in growth. Sarah Gomez at ACCION USA must evaluate their small business loan application...
GlaxoSmithKline in Brazil: Public-Private Vaccine Partnerships
Authors: Daemmrich, Arthur A.; Cornell, Ian McKown
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Three years into a major public-private partnership between GlaxoSmithKline and Fiocuz, Brazil's principal health institute, the company assesses technology transfer and joint research under the agreement. GSK's management must consider whether the PPP provides strategic advantage to its consumer healthcare businesses in Brazil and to access other emerging markets as well as the risks...
Hyflux Limited and Water Sustainability - Treading Blue Oceans
Authors: Wee, Beng Geok; Kroll, Mark; Buche, Ivy; Chua, Timothy
Product Type: Cases
Source: ABCC at Nanyang Tech University
Publication Year: 2012
Hyflux was one of Asia's leading environmental water treatment companies with operations in Singapore, China, the Middle East, North Africa and India. However by 2009, as a player in the global water treatment business, Hyflux had to prove that it could execute greenfield municipal projects in a far-flung continent and compete with other global water treatment companies in these new markets...
Corporate Governance: Board Members Reflect
Authors: Levy, Richard; Finocchio, Robert; Hackworth, Michael
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2012
To be effective, corporate boards must oversee the ethical functioning of a company as well as its business operations. In these videos we ask three experienced corporate directors — Richard Levy, Robert Finocchio and Michael Hackworth — to share their views about the ethical challenges facing corporate boards.
Identifying Fraudulent Companies in China
Authors: Hanson, Kirk O.; Block, Carson
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2012
A discussion about ethical issues such as fraud, conflicts of interest, and other issues and how these problems manifest in China.
Alleged Accounting Fraud at Nortel Networks Corporation
Authors: Henderson, Darren; Sturby, Chris; Liu, Christine
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
In January 2009, an investor was assessing his investment in Nortel. Considering his losses, the investor wondered whether there were any signs indicating that Nortel's accounting practices were problematic. He also wanted to understand the accounting issues raised in the SEC and OSC investigations, such as improper recognition of revenue and improper recording of provisions.
American Apparel: Unwrapping Ethics
Authors: Cotte, June; Lee, Seung Hwan (Mark); Schuette, Brittany
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
American Apparel has socially progressive labour policies and uses significant environmental advances in its manufacturing process. In addition, it has a well-established philanthropic arm. Set against these socially responsible policies is the highly sexualized nature of the company’s advertising...
People Express Airlines
Authors: Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Barley, Lauren
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Profiles People's aggressive strategy and its distinctive approach to human resource management, which emphasized job rotation and minimal hierarchy...
Edison2
Authors: Laseter, Timothy M.; Hetman, Yaroslav; McHale, Carly
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The founder and CEO of Edison2 and his internationally renowned team of designers, engineers, and professional race car drivers had worked tirelessly for three years to design and build the Very Light Car (VLC), which won the 2010 X Prize competition. Now the CEO is considering what path Edison2 would follow.
Edward Lundberg and the Rockville Building: Energy Efficiency Finance in Commercial Real Estate
Authors: Macomber, John D.; Nellemann, Frederik
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
A commercial landlord analyzes options for funding and accomplishing energy efficiency retrofit. Students must grapple with obstacles including changing energy prices, variations in energy needed in different climate scenarios, issues in net and gross lease responsibilities, and issues in finding adequate cash flow and security to satisfy a range of possible third party funders.
James Bowman and Coopertree Capital in China
Authors: Wicks, Andrew C.; Mead, Jenny; Keevil, Adrian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
James Bowman, a founding partner of a private equity fund manager based in New York City, has traveled to China to meet with a China Power Investment Corporation manager in the hope of cultivating a business relationship. But Bowman is flabbergasted when the manager, in what is supposed to be an introductory conversation, asks that Bowman deposit $800,000 into a Chinese banking account.
Sustainability: New Perspectives and Opportunities
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2012
While there is considerable debate as to the kinds of changes required to achieve it, the idea of sustainability has taken hold. Governments, companies, nonprofit organizations, grassroots groups, and the general public are immersed in wide-ranging discussions and activities to improve the use of the planet’s resources so that future generations can enjoy them. Progress, however, has been limited, episodic, and incremental, at best. This white paper pulls together the definitions of sustainability and the solutions proposed by a group of experts drawn from academia, business, government, think tanks, and nonprofit organizations...
Snehalaya
Authors: Chachan, Supil; Porwal, Pradyot
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Snehalaya is an NGO in the Ahmednagar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The case provides a brief background of the sex trade in India to explain the gravity of the situation. It then discusses the NGO founder's upbringing and how it influenced him to serve society…
IPODERAC: Finding the Path Towards Sustainability
Authors: Villamizar, Francisco Layrisse; Lozano, Gerardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Using an educational model based on the concept of personal development through honourable work, IPODERAC has successfully combined its desire to be financially self-sufficient with its goal of teaching educational values, responsibility and discipline to the children in its care, thus enabling them to develop a sense of belonging and some useful skills for life. This case explores the inception and the long evolution of IPODERAC’s educational model, as the organization faces a constant search for production projects that will enable it to generate income.
MF Global: Changing Stripes
Authors: Rose, Clayton; Dahya, Yasmin; Lee, Jenevieve
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Jon Corzine became the CEO of MF Global in March of 2010. 18 months later, and in the wake of a massive trade in European sovereign debt, the firm filed for bankruptcy, the 8th largest in U.S. history. As the firm failed it was discovered that over $1.6 billion in segregated customer assets was missing...
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
Authors: Marquis, Christopher; Villa, Laura Velez
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other types of social strategies deliver bottom line benefits.
The Meatpacking Factory
Authors: Wicks, Andrew C.; Mead, Jenny; Stewart, Nicholas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The manager of a large meatpacking factory has agreed to the request of his 100-plus Muslim workers who have asked to take breaks at sunset to properly observe the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Other employees have become irritated, believing they are carrying the burden of the break times and resenting what they see as preferential treatment...
Telescope: Squaring Purpose with Reality
Authors: Wicks, Andrew C.; Mead, Jenny; Stewart, Nicholas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The management of Telescope, a wildly popular online search engine, must deal with an impending crisis: a security breach in which private information from thousands of users has been compromised...
Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse: Video
Authors: Hanson, Kirk O.; Jennings, Marianne M.
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2012
Marianne Jennings, author of "Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse," talks with Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, about the issues that consistently arise in companies that have gotten into trouble...
Schuberg Philis
Authors: DeLong, Thomas J.; Beyersdorfer, Daniela
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
A growing workload and 100% promise to customers have increased the pressure on Schuberg Philis' non-hierarchical teams of engineers, as well as the hiring speed, which some fear could dilute their corporate culture...
Negotiating the Path of Abraham
Author: Sebenius, James K.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
The Abraham Path Initiative board faces strategic and negotiating challenges in revitalizing a route of Middle East cultural tourism following Abraham's path 4000 years ago. From a notion crystallized at Harvard in 2004, this idea has been carefully negotiated into a concrete reality with supporting country organizations in Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. Yet, momentum has stalled in key areas, strategic and operational issues remain unresolved, and the financial future of the initiative is clouded.
COSCO: Implementing Sustainability
Authors: Marquis, Christopher; Yin, Lynn; Yang, Dongning
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
In 2005 COSCO announced it would join the United Nations Global Compact and initiated sustainability reporting practices. How far should COSCO go in promoting the sustainability system as a stand-alone product? What were the next steps in sustainability reporting, and should COSCO try to attain even higher reporting standards in the future? What would be the value in reaching higher sustainability and reporting standards, and how would internal and external stakeholders react? What challenges lay ahead for the consistent implementation of higher standards across COSCO's subsidiaries?
First Quantum Minerals vs. Eurasian Natural Resources
Authors: Serafeim, George; Knauer, Andrew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The case describes the battle between First Quantum Mineral and Eurasian Resources over mines in Democratic Republic of Congo...
From International Conflict to Resolution and Peace
Author: Ty, Rey
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: DePaul University
Publication Year: 2012
This course examines the origin, nature, and consequences of conflict and peace. It investigates the systemic, interstate, domestic, economic, class, social, economic, ideological, idiosyncratic, and other factors that provide the reasons for which conflicts arise in different contexts. Literature used come from political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, education, history, business, communication, religious studies, and the humanities.
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Author: Kara, Siddharth
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2010
Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. In this book, the author provides a riveting account of his journey into this unconscionable industry, sharing the moving stories of its victims and revealing the shocking conditions of their exploitation. He draws on his background in finance, economics, and law to provide the first ever business analysis of contemporary slavery worldwide, focusing on its most profitable and barbaric form: sex trafficking.
Occidental Engineering
Author: McFarland, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2012
A software engineer faces an ethical dilemma when his boss asks him to sign off on an air traffic control system with a serious bug.
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It
Author: Salter, Malcolm S.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies—along with fund managers and other investors—on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term investments, threatening the performance of both individual firms and the U.S. economy. I argue that short-termism also invites institutional corruption...
Homeboy Industries Reboots the Lives of Tattooed Former Gangbangers, and Even One CEO
Author: McGray, Douglas
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Fast Company
Publication Year: 2012
Homeboy Industries, the passion project of an L.A. priest, has brought life reboots to hundreds of former criminals, including onetime gang members and the fallen CEO of mega-construction company KB Home.
Reimagining Capitalism
Author:
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.
Intel: Exploring Market Opportunities in Water
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Edmondson, Amy C.; Serafeim, George; Farrell, Sarah E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Intel is looking to move beyond microprocessor manufacturing. Lorie Wigle, Intel’s General Manager of Eco Technology and President of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, wondered if water management presented the perfect opportunity for Intel to both innovate on an environmental challenge and expand its IT presence.
A.P. Moller - Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Bill Allen and Maria Pejter of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, discuss talent management issues: an increase an employee turnover; internal training and development programs; hiring experienced talent from outside the firm; rehiring former employees ("boomerangs"); and increasing employee diversity.
Goldwind USA: Chinese Wind in the Americas
Authors: Abrami, Regina M.; Koch-Weser, Iacob
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Many Chinese firms have struggled in the United States. Renewable energy is a fledgling, high-risk market. Can Goldwind USA, a leading producer of wind turbines, overcome the odds?
Introducing iSnack 2.0: The New Vegemite
Authors: Keinan, Anat; Farrelly, Francis; Beverland, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Vegemite is an iconic Australian breakfast spread, and this case focuses on Kraft's decision to revitalize the brand's performance. Following a high profile campaign, Kraft chose the name iSnack 2.0 for a new Vegemite brand extension. The case starts two days after the public unveiling of this name and the subsequent nationwide backlash against it.
Theo Chocolate
Author: Cummings, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 2012
Theo's unique value proposition, of being "the only organic, Fair-Trade, bean-to-bar chocolate factory in the United States," drives its business. The company was started and operates under the premise that socially responsible business practices are cornerstones of its operations. The key decision facing the company is whether Theo can in fact afford to stay true to the strategy and value proposition that has defined its existence. The case provides students an opportunity to wrestle with very real issues that idealistic entrepreneurs face - compromising principles, brand-building, managing cash flow and planning for the future.
W.L. Gore: Culture of Innovation
Author: Rao, Jay
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 2012
W.L. Gore differs from the mainstream enterprise in a number of ways -strategy, structure, ownership, leadership, and operations. This case allows the participants to delve into each of these elements and see how they are all consistent and reinforcing one another. The main focus of the case is its "culture of innovation."
Fracking: Gas Drilling’s Environmental Threat
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: ProPublica
Publication Year: 2012
The country's push to find clean domestic energy has zeroed in on natural gas, but cases of water contamination have raised serious questions about the primary drilling method being used...
Transformational Gaming: Zynga's Social Strategy (A, B, C)
Author: Hartman, Laura Pincus
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
In January 2009, Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of the immensely popular and successful Zynga Game Network met with his sister Laura Hartman, DePaul University business ethics professor, to discuss building a new brand of corporate social strategy. Pincus wanted to find a way that Zynga could have a greater social impact on the world. He and Hartman talked about creating a new social strategy that would naturally flow out of Zynga’s success in developing highly profitable interactive social games. The two of them wondered whether it was possible for one company to develop a strategy that would both be profitable and engender social change.
Why Good People Can't Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It
Author: Cappelli, Peter
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wharton Digital Press
Publication Year: 2012
Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren't preparing students for jobs; the government isn't letting in enough high-skill immigrants; and even when the match is right, prospective employees won’t accept jobs at the wages offered. Peter Cappelli, Wharton management professor and director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, addresses the arguments and discusses the real reasons good people can’t get hired.
Greening the Supply Chain: Best Business Practices and Future Trends
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2012
The more corporations around the globe focus on sustainability, the more they realize that their greatest challenges and opportunities often lie outside their own offices and manufacturing plants. To make a truly significant lifecycle leap, large companies have to work on greening their supply chains…
Sustainability, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Author: Larson, Andrea
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2011
The purpose of this course is to provide students with practical information on the growing frontier of innovation and entrepreneurial activity at the nexus of business and natural systems. Students will look at the drivers of corporate innovation, strategic shifts, and new markets, learn skills to identify market opportunities and understand the tools, concepts, and frameworks used by companies currently pursuing sustainable business opportunities.
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...
Using Business Tools To Combat The World's Big Problems
Author: Miller, Kara
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: WGBH, Innovation Hub
Publication Year: 2012
We talk to experts about the rising tide of social entrepreneurship. Does it have the power to address some of the fundamental problems in society — hunger, health, poverty? And we check in with local companies who are trying to change their communities and the world...
In Search of the Hybrid Ideal
Authors: Battilana, Julie; Lee, Matthew; Walker, John; Dorsey, Cheryl
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review, 10(3)
Publication Year: 2012
Researchers examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges they face...
Teaching Business at a Liberal Arts College
Author: Nesteruk, Jeffrey
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Publication Year: 2008
Bringing business education and the liberal arts into close proximity, as happens at many small liberal arts colleges today, can unsettle the assumptions of each. But if done well there are tremendous benefits, certainly to business education and, surprisingly to many, also to the liberal arts. The key to a business program flourishing at a liberal arts college is threefold: blending, bridging, and building...
India 2012: The Challenges of Governance
Authors: Iyer, Lakshmi; Vietor, Richard H.K
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
In January 2012, the government of India faced significant challenges... Policy reforms were hampered by several recent corruption scandals, widespread citizen protests against corruption, and disagreements with coalition partners. Could India make the right decisions needed to lift hundreds of millions of citizens out of poverty?
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