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Investments and Returns: Who Has Legitimate Claim on the Returns of the Firm?
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2004
Corporate governance and accountability are examined through case studies, background conceptual pieces, and articles from the business and popular press. The background readings are by Professor Margaret Blair and colleagues, whose work challenges conventional assumptions about the primacy of shareholders among corporate stakeholders, based on legal precedent and best practices for long-term firm viability.
Doing Business in Asia
Author: Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2004
Doing Business in Asia is a teaching module of four business case studies and three background readings from our Tools and Resources section, examining the topic from a variety of angles, from the practical to the ethical.
Guidelines for Social Return on Investment
Authors: Lingane, Alison; Olsen, Sara
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review Volume 46 No. 3, Spring, 2004
Publication Year: 2004
Presents 10 standard guidelines for calculating social return on investment (SROI)--quantitative summaries of companies' social and environmental impacts, actual or projected.
Accounting Fraud at WorldCom
Authors: Kaplan, Robert S.; Kiron, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2004
The case provides sufficient detail to allow for a full discussion of the pressures that lead executives and managers to "cook the books," the boundary between earnings smoothing or management and fraudulent reporting, the role for internal control systems and internal audit to prevent or rapidly detect accounting fraud, the expectations about governance processes performed by external auditors and the board of directors, and the pressure and consequences when middle managers follow orders that they know are wrong...
Enron Corp.
Authors: Hawkins, David F.; Cohen, Jacob
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2004
A consulting firm to institutional investors recommends selling Enron Corp.'s equity short on May 6, 2001, while many sellside analysts are recommending the stock as a "buy."
Finance Special Topics: Socially Responsible Investment
Author: Rivoli, Pietra
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Publication Year: 2004
This course will introduce the socially responsible investment (SRI) industry through interaction with industry leaders, case studies, lectures, and academic research...From a "fringe" industry of a few mutual funds in the early 1980s, the SRI industry today includes over 200 mutual funds and more than $2 trillion under management...
Anglo American (A, B)
Authors: Podolny, Joel; Bahl, Kanika; Newsome, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2004
In 2001, Dr. Brian Brink, senior vice president of Anglo American, a massive South African mining conglomerate, was debating how to confront the ravages that extremely high HIV/AIDS rates were taking on Anglo's workforce and overall productivity...
Stocking Up on Sin : How to Crush the Market with Vice-Based Investing
Author: Waxler, Caroline
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: John Wiley & Sons
Publication Year: 2004
A one-of-a-kind guide to investing in vice industries. Although vices such as alcohol, tobacco, and gambling may be deemed socially irresponsible, in the investment world, these stocks continue to dramatically outperform the S&P 500 in a depressed market...
Give My Regrets to Wall Street
Authors: Frigo, Mark L.; Litman, Joel
Product Type:
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2004
It's been only four years since First Rangeway Consulting went public, but to CEO Kenneth Charles, it seems like a lifetime. In the grand old days of its IPO, the company couldn't grow fast enough to meet customer demand...
An Inventory of Support Materials for Teaching Ethics in the Post-Enron Era
Author: Thomas, C. William
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: American Accounting Association Issues in Accounting Education, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 27-52
Publication Year: 2004
This paper presents a "Post-Enron" annotated bibliography of resources for accounting professors who wish to either design a stand-alone course in accounting ethics or who wish to integrate a significant component of ethics into traditional courses across the curriculum...
Baltimore Fund
Authors: Rosenberg, Carin; Joseph, Ricardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Yale School of Management, the Program on Social Enterprise
Publication Year: 2004
After five years of actively contributing to its local Baltimore community, The Open Society Institute believed there was an opportunity to effect change on a different level...
Corporate Governance Revisited: What Do We Know and What Do We Teach Future Business Leaders?
Authors: Gentile, Mary C.; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source:
Publication Year: 2004
This summary shares many of the themes that emerged from a series of interviews we conducted in 2003 on “Corporate Governance and Accountability.” We interviewed 29 faculty members in the areas of accounting, business law, economics, finance, and strategy about the current state of research, practice, and teaching on corporate governance and what new approaches might be needed.
When to break up a conglomerate: An Interview with Tyco International's CFO
Author:
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2004
Caux Round Table
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source:
Publication Year: 2004
The Caux Round Table is "an international network of principled business leaders working to promote a moral capitalism."
Porsche Exposed
Authors: Moffett, Michael H.; Petitt, Barbara S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2004
The case is intended to provide a contemporary debate over the use of financial derivatives (in this case, foreign currency options) as a method for the management of the economic exposure (also called operating exposure) experienced by Porsche as a result of its global sales. The decision-making of senior management is also questioned because the firm has continued to be highly controversial in its attitudes and practices related to financial reporting, and the associated practices of management towards shareholders relations and corporate governance as a whole.
Enron's Demise
Author: Rankine, Graeme
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2004
The rise and fall of Enron was marked by inflated earnings and substantial amounts of hidden debt, enabled by the use of special purpose entities, the application of unethical accounting techniques, and an unquestioning board of directors. But why did Enron's collapse take the financial community by complete surprise? Were there any warning signs that Enron was not as financially solid as it appeared?
Parmalat
Authors: Regani, Shirisha; Dutta, Sanjib
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2004
Towards the end of 2003, it was revealed that Parmalat had been resorting to fraudulent accounting practices from the late-1980s…. many analysts likened Parmalat to the Enron case in the United States.
State Farm Insurance and Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago
Author: Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College
Product Type: Cases
Source: Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College
Publication Year: 2004
To extend its insurance services and live up to its “Good Neighbor” reputation, State Farm Insurance teamed up with Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago to deliver insurance products and education to low-income communities.
Teaming up to Brand and Bond: Timberland Partners with City Year, SOS, and Skills USA
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2004
Timberland strengthens its brand identity through partnerships that promote social justice and a service ethic worldwide.
Nicarao
Authors: Schneider, Louise; Linowes, Richard
Product Type: Cases
Source: Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program
Publication Year: 2004
Nicarao was in the midst of an exciting transformation to convert from a non-profit organization to Nicaragua's first regulated financial institution catering to micro-entrepreneurs. This transformation was critical to securing additional funds from commercial sources to expand client outreach and increase Nicarao's long-term viability as a permanent financial institution serving the Nicaraguan poor.
Controlling Growth at a Mexican Microfinance Start-Up
Authors: Reddy, Rekha; Linowes, Richard
Product Type: Cases
Source: Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program
Publication Year: 2004
Esperanza was aware that fraud was extremely common in young microfinance organizations, especially those with imperfect operations and information systems, but her experience with the troubled branch left her shocked by how much damage could be done by a single employee in such a short period time.
Sinapi Aba Trust
Authors: Linowes, Richard; Kendrick, Lumas, Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program
Publication Year: 2004
Kojo thought back to why he had originally joined Sinapi five years ago. As a Christian-based organization, Sinapi had as its mission to serve the “Poorest of the Poor.” He had always felt good about working for an organization that shared his values of helping the poor. He worried that should the organization change to an S&L, it may have to change its focus and begin working with clients who were more financially secure. This would mean effectively abandoning its core value of working on poverty alleviation in the poorest sectors of society.
Promoting Fair Trade and Increasing Profits
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2004
The partnership between Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, a leader in the specialty coffee industry based in Waterbury,
Vermont and TransFair USA, a nonprofit fair trade certification
organization, has resulted in increased profits for Green
Mountain Coffee, a significant boost in fair trade coffee sales in
the United States, and fair compensation and direct access to
international markets for poor coffee growers.
VolunteerMatch
Author: Barad, Seth
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Bridgespan Group
Publication Year: 2003
Interest in earned-income ventures is rocketing. In a recent Bridgespan survey of 53 nonprofits with budgets mostly in the $3M to $15M range, for example, more than 50% said they planned to initiate a venture in the next two years. The odds of success are daunting, however, just as they are in the for-profit sector...
The Dangers of Too Much Governance
Authors: Holstrom, Bengt; Kaplan, Steven N.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2003
Most people accept that innovating involves risk. If a gene therapy patient dies, regulators stiffen controls, but they don't make gene therapy impossible. Similarly, the United States must apply balance in addressing business scandals. Corporate governance problems call for safeguards, but not to the point of hobbling risk taking and economic growth. As dangerous as an Enron Corp is, even more dangerous would be a system designed to make all future Enrons impossible...
Running with risk
Authors: Buehler, Kevin S.; Pritsch, Gunnar
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2003
Risk is a fact of business life, but many companies fail to manage it well. McKinsey looked at 200 leading financial-services companies and found 150 cases of significant financial distress between 1997 and 2002. In about half of them, poorly handled risk played a significant role...
Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (A1)
Author: Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2003
The CEO of Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. must decide what to do when he receives information that the company's supply of apple juice concentrate may be adulterated...
Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future
Authors: Leung, Erika; Liu, Lily; Shen, Lu; Taback, Kevin; Wang, Leo
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future, editors Thomas A. Kochan and Richard L. Schmalensee, Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2003
Publication Year: 2003
This article argues that in undertaking the task of developing market based institutions in China, corporate governance plays a key role in instilling confidence among market players...
The Voice of the Stakeholder
Authors: Samuelson, Judith; Birchard, Bill
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business. Fall 2003; Issue 32.
Publication Year: 2003
This article discusses the importance of listening to stakeholders in today's business reality. Drawing on 12 recent publications, the authors both identify and address five challenges in realizing a vision of social responsibility by relating to stakeholders...
Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector
Authors: Herzlinger, Regina E.; Grahling, Jeff
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2003
This course describes the public and private sources of financing of the U.S. health-care sector, and identifies the characteristics of insurance policies, their costs, the structure of the insurance industry, and the role of consultants and brokers...
Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts: Gauging Investors' Views on Corporate Social Responsibility
Authors: Tse, Eliza; Ng, Pauline; Ross, Kay
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2003
In January 2003, Mr. Ho Kwok Ping ("KP"), the co-founder and chairman of Singapore-based Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts, was debating whether to take his privately held company public.
Sally Jameson: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package
Authors: Tufano, Peter; Lewittes, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
Details a thinly disguised situation faced by a recent Harvard MBA graduate who was forced by a prospective employer to place a dollar value on a grant of stock options.
Posada Amazonas
Authors: Revilla, Jesus; Perez, Felipe
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN)
Publication Year: 2003
Describes the story of Posada Amazonas, a tourist lodge in the Peruvian jungle, which resulted from a collaboration agreement between the native community Eseja de Infierno and the tourism firm Rainforest Expeditions (RFE)...
Making a Difference or Making a Statement? Finance Research and Socially Responsible Investment
Author: Rivoli, Pietra
Product Type:
Source: Business Ethics Quarterly
Publication Year: 2003
What does socially responsible investing (SRI) accomplish for investors and for society? Proponents of SRI claim that the practice yields competitive portfolio returns for investors, while at the same time achieving better outcomes for society at large. Skeptics view SRI as ineffective at best and ill-conceived marketing hype at worst...
Do Publicly Traded Corporations Act in the Public Interest?
Author: Gordon, Roger H.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, 3(1)
Publication Year: 2003
Models of corporate behavior normally assume that a firm acts in the interests of shareholders, and that shareholders care only about the returns they receive on the shares they own in that firm.
ACCION International
Authors: Quelch, John A.; Laidler, Nathalie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
ACCION International is a major nonprofit player in microfinance. Reviews the organization's history and evolution, details current activities and relationships within its network, and assesses the organization's challenges moving forward.
Employee Stock Options at Microsoft Corporation
Authors: Lynch, Luann J.; Brownlee, E. Richard; Blair, Robert T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Publication Year: 2003
Students prepare an analysis of Microsoft Corporation's financial statements and footnotes to understand the impact of its use of stock options.
The Promise and Perils of Globalization: The Case of Nike
Author: Locke, Richard
Product Type: Cases
Source: This case is published as a chapter, “The Promise and Perils of Globalization: The Case of Nike”, in the book Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future.
Publication Year: 2003
This case study of Nike Inc. traces the evolution of Nike's policies and practices vis-à-vis labor and environmental standards. The case illustrates the company's evolving definition and commitment to good corporate citizenship and the continuing controversy surrounding the company's practices in this arena.
The AT&T Foundation
Author: Barrett, Diana
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2003
This cases explores the corporate philanthropic activities at AT&T, formed in 1983. Addresses the difficulty of making centralized decisions after the break-up for the four new entities, each with a diverse and sometimes cross-competitive strategy.
Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis
Author: Prasad, Anshuman
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st edition
Publication Year: 2003
This book takes up a question that has rarely been raised in the field of management: “Could modern Western colonialism have important implications for the practices and theories that inform management and organizations?”...
Is 1 the Answer?: More Calling for Single-Payer System
Author: Carroll, John
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Managed Care Magazine
Publication Year: 2003
Most would not want health care to go through such a major change unless it became a question of survival. Many say that's just where we are...
The Importance of Cultural Framing to the Success of Social Initiatives in Business
Authors: Howard-Grenville, Jennifer; Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Executive. Vol. 17, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 2003
Cultural frames provide leverage for action on social initiatives, as shown in a case on the air pollution issue in semiconductor manufacturing.
The HP-Cisco Alliance (A, B)
Authors: Casciaro, Tiziana; Darwall, Christina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
In 2002, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems strove to develop their long-standing partnership into a strategic alliance with increasing impact. Critical components of successful alliance implementation emerge from the analysis...
Analyzing Edison Schools, Inc. (A)
Authors: Hawkins, David F.; Cohen, Jacob
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Provides the background information for Edison Schools, Inc. and the 2001 financial statements and footnotes.
CGA: What Do We Know and What Do We Teach Future Business Leaders?
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Speeches
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2003
The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program reports on MBA education's approaches to governance issues, offering a rich picture of what is currently taught in MBA programs; the strengths and limitations of this material; the questions left unanswered or unasked; and some promising approaches for addressing these gaps.
CEO Hubris Distorts Investment Decisions
Author: Malmendier, Ulrike
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Business magazine
Publication Year: 2003
"CEOs who are overly convinced about their own leadership capabilities are not actively trying to get rich at shareholders' expense; they're just misperceiving the situation"
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Author: The Bridgespan Group
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Bridgespan Group, Non-Profit Consulting
Publication Year: 2003
The establishment of donor advised funds by Fidelity and other companies in the private sector has influenced non-profit charitable foundations to move in this direction. The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation trains its staff to guide donors toward investing funds in projects of their choice...
Case Study Hypothetical—You Are the Audit Committee Chair
Authors: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Walter, Robert W.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: "Corporate Ethics for Financial Managers-Navigating With Case Studies and Practical Solutions," Chapter 8: "Case 8-Precious Mining Inc.: You Are the Audit Committee Chair." By Robert W. Walter, J.D. © 2003 by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Inc., New York, New York.
Publication Year: 2003
As Congress, the Justice Department and the SEC began to investigate corporate scandals at Adelphia, Enron, HealthSouth, Qwest, Sunbeam, Tyco, Worldcom, Xerox and other well-known public companies, one clear consensus seemed to emerge: in nearly all of these cases, the board of directors and the audit committee were apparently "asleep at the switch."
Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance: A Post-Enron Reassessment of the Conventional Wisdom
Author: Blair, Margaret
Product Type:
Source: Chapter in Peter K. Cornelius and Bruce Kogut, Editors, Corporate Governance and Capital Flows in a Global Economy. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Publication Year: 2003
Do Socially Responsible Funds Actually Deliver What They Promise?
Authors: Sethi, S. Prakash; Schepers, Donald H.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business and Society Review, 108:1,2003, pp. 11-32 and Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College, published by Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, 2003
Publication Year: 2003
Socially Responsible Investing, also known as the ‘Ethical Investing Movement' is a growing niche among investors, benefiting from public concerns that include environmental protection, worker health and safety, human rights and workplace diversity...
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