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Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd: Linking Compensation to Sustainability Metrics
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Serafeim, George; Li, Shelley Xin; Knight, Alan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Robert Venter, second-generation Chief Executive of family-owned Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd, considered the pros and cons of more clearly linking the firm's compensation system to sustainability performance. Having made a clear commitment to sustainable development, Venter was confident that the commitment was shared across the senior management team. However, there appeared to be more acceptance in the operating units for meeting financial targets than for meeting sustainability targets. Did the existing incentive structure send the correct message about the sustainability-oriented corporate strategy?
Banco Ciudad (A, B)
Authors: Musacchio, Aldo; Herrero, Gustavo A.; Scott, Cintra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Early in 2008, Federico Sturzenegger, a renowned academic in Argentina, was appointed executive chairman by the city government and charged with turning the state-run Banco de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires around. But just four months later, Sturzenegger was already facing the 45th day of a labor conflict sparked by union representatives...
Subprime Tsunami on Indian Shores: Communication Crisis Hits ICICI
Authors: Juneja, Chetan; Bajaj, Gita
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business; Indian School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
ICICI bank - India's largest private sector bank with maximum international exposure among Indian banks - was hit by rumors about its exposure to Lehman assets. Solvency fears drove its depositors to withdraw large sums of money and the bank's stock value started to erode. The case presents the context of the crisis including the financial and reputation assets of the ICICI bank, the crisis communication effort and the impact of the communication effort.
Craig Kielburger Cases
Authors: Crossan, Mary M.; Reno, Mark
Product Type: Cases; Multimedia
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The Craig Kielburger video case series traces the evolution of both a leader and an organization through major strategic change. The case series lends itself to understanding leadership character, social entrepreneurship, strategic renewal and innovation in both not-for-profit and for-profit organizations.
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...
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.
Rospil.info
Authors: Healy, Paul M.; Ramanna, Karthik; Shaffer, Matthew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
What should business leaders do about corruption? In December 2011, four HBS alumni met to debate how to engage the unprecedented protests against Vladimir Putin's corrupt government...
Maersk Line and the Future of Container Shipping
Authors: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Reinhardt, Forest; Nellemann, Frederik
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Maersk Line was hoping that customers would increasingly make sustainability a purchasing criterion, thus differentiating Maersk Line from competing carriers. Could sustainability really provide Maersk Line with a competitive advantage in an industry that was considered to be commoditized?
Against the Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania
Author: Ramanna, Karthik
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Loan officer Jim Teague discovers his agro-processor client has a serious health-code violation just days before a disbursement is due. Proceeding with the loan could jeopardize the health of thousands of customers and put his employer at serious risk. But withholding the loan will likely deprive hundreds of farmers affiliated with the agro-processor their livelihoods in this poor rural corner of Tanzania…
Nuru Energy
Authors: Santos, Felipe; Carrick-Cagna, Anne-Marie
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2012
Nuru Energy is a social venture that was created in 2008 by an MBA graduate with five years experience in the development sector. The entrepreneur starts from nothing, bootstrapping a social venture with the ambitious goal of providing affordable and effective lighting solutions to 800 million poor people without access to the electric grid in sub-Saharan Africa and India. The case describes the challenges of growing social enterprises that have dual roles of profit and social impact. It focuses in particular on financing challenges and provides a context to discuss different financing sources and their implications.
Bio-Vert: Green to What Limit?
Authors: Bedard, Catherine; Grainger, Genevieve; Paquin, Raymond
Product Type: Cases
Source: Concordia University
Publication Year: 2012
Based in Canada, Savons Prolav is a small manufacturer of the environmentally-friendly Bio-Vert brand of cleaning products. The traditional differentiation of the Bio-Vert brand as a cost-competitive environmental friendly alternative which performs as well as traditional mainstream brands is fading and a change of strategy is needed. The options include distributing altered (weakened) product formulations for house brands, maintaining the status quo, or innovating towards new products with even stronger environmental characteristics...
Crediamigo: Partnering with VivaCred?
Authors: Raufflet, Emmanuel; Lavoie, Frédéric
Product Type: Cases
Source: HEC Montréal; CECI
Publication Year: 2012
Marcelo Azevedo and the planning committee of Crediamigo, Brazil’s largest microfinance institution, need to figure out an entry strategy into Rio de Janeiro’s microfinance market. The challenge is to decide how best to enter this competitive market and how to partner with other organizations.
World Toilet Organization: Leveraging Resources for Social Impact
Authors: Chowdhury, Imran; Sibieude, Thierry
Product Type: Cases
Source: ESSEC Business School; Pace University
Publication Year: 2012
This case focuses on business model innovation and strategic organizational design at the World Toilet Organization (WTO), an innovative, Singapore-based social enterprise focusing on sanitation issues such as the availability of clean toilets. The interaction of the social entrepreneur’s motivations with the problems of day-to-day operations and long-term organizational strategy comes alive with real examples from the history of the World Toilet Organization in Singapore and in the Southeast Asia region.
TerraCycle
Authors: Lepoutre, Jan; Read, Stuart; Margery, Philippe
Product Type: Cases
Source: Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School; IMD
Publication Year: 2012
In 2001 Tom Szaky, a Princeton freshman, founded TerraCycle in the hope of starting an eco-capitalist company built on waste – worm waste to be exact. By 2011 Tom had successfully built TerraCycle into an icon for environmental sustainability that was projecting US$16 million in annual revenues. However, sustained profits continued to elude the company, and though Tom was committed to eliminating waste, he was beginning to question whether TerraCycle had the right business model to achieve the triple bottom line...
Sustainable Development at PepsiCo
Authors: Purkayastha, Debapratim; Rao, Adapa Srinivasa
Product Type: Cases
Source: IBS Hyderabad
Publication Year: 2012
Faced with various criticisms on the social and environmental fronts, PepsiCo adopted the ‘Performance with Purpose’ strategy in 2009 under the leadership of its CEO Indra Nooyi (Nooyi). PepsiCo took various steps to fulfill its commitments toward its stakeholders. However, since mid-2011, Nooyi had come under fire from key stakeholders such as shareholders and bottlers who contended that her focus on ‘Performance with Purpose’ had come at the cost of positioning of the company’s products and had hurt sales...
Walmart: Love, Earth
Authors: Smith, N. Craig; Crawford, Robert J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2012
This is the story about the efforts of a social entrepreneur, Assheton Carter, to create a meaningful initiative with Wal-Mart in ethical mining. His idea: to somehow secure the supply chain for jewelry in a way that consumers could be certain that every input – from treatment of workers in the mines through to sustainable manufacturing – was executed to the highest ethical standards. This had never been done before...
Of Orangutans and Chainsaws: Cargill, Inc. Confronts The Rainforest Action Network’s Palm Oil Advocacy
Author: Subramanian, Ram
Product Type: Cases
Source: Montclair State University
Publication Year: 2012
The case is set at a point in late September 2011 when Indonesia, the world’s leading palm oil producer, announced the decision to leave the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. Anticipating an adverse reaction from RAN, since Cargill sourced much of its palm oil from Indonesia, Cargill CEO, Gregory Page, has to make a decision...
Building and Scaling a Cross-Sector Partnership: Oxfam America and Swiss Re Empower Farmers in Ethiopia
Authors: Doh, Jonathan P.; London, Ted
Product Type: Cases
Source: Villanova University; William Davidson Institute/Ross School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
HARITA is an innovative model designed to help propel some of the poorest farmers in Ethiopia out of poverty by helping them cope with weather-related risk. Oxfam’s goal for HARITA was to develop a scalable model that could be disseminated throughout developing countries across the globe to help farmers deal with the effects of drought and other challenges associated with climate change.
Mind the Gap: Royal Dutch Shell’s Sustainability Agenda in Nigeria
Authors: Hennchen, Esther; Lozano, Josep Maria
Product Type: Cases
Source: ESADE Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Royal Dutch Shell has started to assume social and political responsibilities that go beyond legal requirements and fill the regulatory vacuum in global governance and a public responsibility gap in Nigeria. Which implications does this engagement have for the firm, governance and democracy? And which public responsibility strategies can a multinational company like Shell employ in a complex operating environment such as Nigeria to be sustainable?
Building an Inclusive Green Economy for All: Opportunities and Challenges for Overcoming Poverty and Inequality
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Poverty-Environment Partnership
Publication Year: 2012
Examples of the green economy in practice show great potential for delivering a “triple bottom line” of job–creating economic growth coupled with environmental protection and social inclusion. However, there are significant barriers to realizing this potential on a large scale. To build an inclusive green economy that is equitable and sustainable will require carefully designed policies and targeted investments that enable low and middle-income countries and the poor to contribute to and benefit from the transition...
Communication for an Employee-Owned Company
Author: Cai, Junyi
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2012
Communication benefits the employee-ownership plan of a company in many ways. A well-communicated plan and a well-planned communication campaign are much more likely to accomplish your objectives...
Improving State-Level Policy Advocacy for Employee Ownership
Author: Taylor, Michael
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2012
If undertaken nationwide, initiatives to support employee ownership at the state level could dramatically improve not only the welfare of prospective employee owners, but also revitalize an important source of U.S. firms' competitive advantage in the global marketplace...
Selling Ownership to an ESOP: An Attractive Route to Cashing Out
Author: Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2012
Any business owner who evaluates their succession options without investigating the concept of an employee stock ownership plan will be making a mistake. What is an ESOP, and how does it work?
Anti-corruption Guidelines (“Toolkit”) for MBA Curriculum Change
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: United Nations Global Compact, Principles for Responsible Management Education
Publication Year: 2012
The project aims at promoting ethical decision-making and anti-corruption competencies at the post-baccalaureate level by offering business schools and management-related academic institutions substantive anti-corruption guidelines for curriculum change with the aim of teaching students to take effective and ethical decisions that benefit both business and society.
Principles for Responsible Management Education Gender Equality Repository
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: United Nations Global Compact, Principles for Responsible Management Education
Publication Year: 2012
The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Gender Equality Repository identifies materials and resources that assist faculty in integrating gender issues and awareness into management education...
Inspirational Guide for the Implementation of PRME: Placing Sustainability at the Heart of Management Education
Author: GSE Research Limited
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: GSE Research Limited; United Nations Global Compact, Principles for Responsible Management Education
Publication Year: 2012
While consensus has been reached by the majority of globally focused management education institutions that sustainability must be incorporated into management education curricula, the relevant question is no longer why management education should change, but how? This Guide addresses frequently asked questions concerning the implementation of principles for responsible management education by highlighting real world examples with cases from dozens of institutions in countries around the world...
Creativity in Class
Author: Feinberg, Susan
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: BizEd, p. 42
Publication Year: 2012
Since when does MBA stand for “music,” “being creative," and "acting"? Business schools turn to the fine arts to teach students key concepts about teamwork, communication, and leadership.
Willful Blindness: When a Leader Turns a Blind Eye
Author: Heffernan, Margaret
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ivey Business Journal
Publication Year: 2012
When the British Member of Parliament, Adrian Sanders, asked Rupert and James Murdoch if they were familiar with the term “willful blindness,” their silence said it all. The MP defined it for them: “If there is knowledge that you could have had, should have had but chose not to have, you are still responsible.” Then and now, willful blindness was a concept that should send shivers down the spines of any executive...
The Cornerstones of Good Business Practices
Author: Dahlvig, Anders
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ivey Business Journal
Publication Year: 2012
Retailer IKEA did not become one of the most admired companies in the world by trial and error. The company was built on a carefully, well-thought-out foundation that remains firmly in place almost 40 years after the company was founded...
MSPL Limited: CSR and Sustainability in Mining
Authors: Gupta, Amit; Joseph, Amita
Product Type: Cases
Source: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
MSPL’s main source of revenue, the Vyasankere Iron Ore Mine (VIOM), was one of the largest iron ore mines in the private sector in India. The case deals with the choices and decisions regarding the numerous initiatives undertaken by the organization in sustainability and CSR. Were there other initiatives that MSPL should have undertaken? Was it even necessary for the company to carry out CSR activities in the local communities?
Wilmar International Limited - Managing Multiple Stakeholders in a Global Palm Oil Agribusiness Group
Authors: Wee, Beng Geok; Chen, Geraldine; Buche, Ivy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Asian Business Case Centre
Publication Year: 2012
Established in 1991, Wilmar grew rapidly to become one of the largest palm oil companies in Southeast Asia. As the global demand for palm oil grew, environmental groups were concerned about the impact of palm oil industry on the social and natural environment, such as loss of forest ecosystems, environmental damage, soil degradation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. They were pressuring palm oil producers, including Wilmar, to take action to address these issues. The challenge was to manage growth initiatives and the environmentalists' demands for more sustainable operations...
Wastewater Recycling: Public Relations for a Controversial Technology
Authors: Shotts, Kenneth W.; Jhina, Ashish; Hoyt, David W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Recycling wastewater into potable water is attractive in many situations. However, this alternative has not always been successful-in some cases, public opposition has defeated recycling plans, while public concerns have been successfully addressed in others. This case gives an overview of water supply issues and examples of successful and unsuccessful attempts to implement recycling programs.
We May Have Hired Dr. Jekyll, but We Ended Up with Mr. Hyde
Authors: Kesner, Idalene F.; Mooney, Christine H.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Dave Patton seemed like such a nice guy before he was hired as COO of Premier Packaging Inc. Now the senior management members who interviewed him, and gave his hire their blessing, are wondering what went wrong, and what to do next...
Tough Decisions at Marks and Spencer
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Serafeim, George; Armbrester, Kyle
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
In 2007, under the leadership of CEO Stuart Rose, the iconic British retailer Marks and Spencer, with great fanfare, announced its "Plan A" initiative. Based on the five essential pillars of climate change, waste, sustainable materials, fair partnership, and health, the plan sought to transform the company's practices. Key aspects of Plan A included more sustainable sourcing and influencing the business practices of the company's supply chain; communication to employees, customers and investors; and employee engagement. The case concludes with the tradeoffs involved in the decision of whether or not to install refrigerator doors in the grocery section of its stores. While the energy savings and reduced carbon emissions are relatively clear and easy to measure, the impact on customers and revenues is harder to assess...
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
Authors: Narayanan, V.G.; Chaturvedi, Saloni
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
In 2009, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, the organization tasked with building a Mass Transit System for India's capital city Delhi, witnessed the biggest crisis in its history. A bridge under construction collapsed killing six people and injuring 15 more. The case focuses on the challenges that the Managing Director Dr. E. Sreedharan faced as the crisis unfolded...
My Speech to the Finance Graduates
Author: Shiller, Robert J.
Product Type: Speeches
Source: Project Syndicate
Publication Year: 2012
In this address to graduating Finance students, Robert J. Shiller exhorts students to remember that if they are to succeed, liberal arts will be just as important in their careers as training in financial theory, and that they should never lose sight of the social as well as economic goals of their profession...
Values in the Global Marketplace
Author: Holcomb, John
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Denver Daniels College of Business
Publication Year: 2008
This course explores the meaning and elements of globalization and its impact on business, including the roles played by clashing comparative values, legal systems, political institutions, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), emphasizing their impact on business strategy and decisions...
Journey to the East: Natcore Technology in China
Authors: Abrami, Regina M.; Shaffer, Matthew; Zhang, Weigi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Why is a U.S. solar technology firm manufacturing in China instead of the U.S.? Chuck Provini faces this question not just from the market, but also from the U.S. government...
GoodGuide
Authors: Serafeim, George; Eccles, Robert G.; Clay, Tiffany A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
GoodGuide is at a critical junction. They provide consumers and manufacturers with information about the sustainability of a product but have yet to find a way to monetize their business model.
A Model for Decision Making Risk
Authors: Chetan, Devin; Wong, Kristopher; Rerup, Claus; Zbaracki, Mark
Product Type: Notes
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
In this note, we use the Bear Stearns collapse and the Maple Leaf Foods listeria outbreak as timely examples of miscalculated decision-making risk. After examining these cases it is clear that the associated risk in both was high. This raises a number of questions. Why didn’t the decision-makers realize the risk their organizations were facing? How can business leaders learn from these failures to ensure similar mistakes are not made in the future? In particular, this note was written to answer the question: Is there a comprehensive framework that can be used to assess decision-making risk?
Australian Miners and the Resource Super Profit Tax
Authors: Delios, Andrew Karl; Jimenez, Donna; Turner, Clarissa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business; National University of Singapore
Publication Year: 2012
In 2010, the ruling party in Australia devised the Resource Super Profit Tax (RSPT) to enable national and state governments to benefit from the boom in the mining industry. The case is presented from the perspective of the CEO of BHP Billiton, one of the largest mining companies in Australia. Successful analysis of the case involves an evaluation of all interested stakeholders in the Australian economy that will be influenced by the imposition of the RSPT.
El Coyote Mexican Cafe in the Wake of Proposition 8
Authors: Richter, Brian; George, Anisha
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The El Coyote Mexican Café is a family owned restaurant located in Los Angeles, California. The restaurant faced criticism from pro-gay rights activists after the manager, and daughter of the owner, made a personal donation to support California Ballot Proposition 8, which activists associated with the restaurant rather than the individual. The case transpires over an eight-day period from November 4, 2008, which was the election day when the ballot proposition passed, to November 12, 2008 which was when the manager held an open breakfast at El Coyote to publicly discuss the issue...
Business Intelligence Advisors (BIA), Inc.: Finding the Hidden Meaning in Corporate Disclosures
Authors: Cohen, Lauren H.; Malloy, Christopher
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
BIA aimed to give its clients a better way of interpreting information provided in analyst calls, media interviews, and other events where executives publicly faced skeptical questions and had to give unscripted answers. BIA's methodology used verbal and nonverbal cues to identify executives who parsed their words too carefully or displayed discomfort with what they were saying. In analyzing the case, students will learn about the role of information in markets-how investors get it, how they process it, and why it matters.
Aviva Investors
Authors: Serafeim, George; Eccles, Robert G.; Armbrester, Kyle
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The case describes Aviva Investors' policies on materiality, engagement, and its corporate responsibility voting policy. It then explores how the company is implementing these policies in the case of a particular company, the FTSE 100 diversified mining company Vendanta.
Affinity Plus: Priorities and Performance Pressures
Authors: Campbell, Dennis; Lu, Rui
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The CEO of a financial services organization must decide how to maintain the company's "customer-first" values in the face of significant performance pressures after the economic crisis of 2008...
A New Approach to China: Google and Censorship in the Chinese Market
Authors: Brett, Jeanne; Pilcher, Lauren; Sell, Lara-Christina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2011
This case concerns the changes in Google and the Chinese government's environment that led to Google withdrawing services from google.cn and the Chinese government saving face by renewing the google.cn license. Google was caught between pleasing its shareholders and preserving its reputation for free access to information, while China was balancing the desire for cutting-edge search technology and the concern that liberal access to information would undermine its political-economic model...
SKS Microfinance: The Sour Taste of Success
Author: Sunderasan, Srinivasan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The initial public offer of SKS Microfinance shares was seen as the initiation of a conflict between the interests of the company’s shareholders and the poor rural borrowers it was expected to serve. The provincial government brought out an ordinance effectively curbing microfinance lending and recovery operations, and the Reserve Bank of India issued a notification placing caps on interest rates, margins and specifying minimum tenures for relatively larger loan sizes. Was this the end of the road for the microfinance movement in India?
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - The New Horizon Farms Dilemma
Authors: Sparling, David; Koeckhoven, Steven
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The director of Lands and Economic Development in the Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada must make recommendations on how to handle challenges around a large farming company that leases land from First Nation communities in Western Canada...
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