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Mining and Metals: Five Issues with Broad Implications
Authors: Shattuck, Rachel; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
The mining and metals industry offers many challenging questions and useful lessons for MBA students. This teaching module helps professors raise these topics in the classroom by bringing together a variety of different materials from different sources that can be used both as background reading and as the focus of class discussion...
BP and Corporate Greenwash
Author: Sider, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
BP's green re-branding efforts began officially with the unveiling of its new BP Helios mark, named after the Greek sun god. However, environmental groups heaped scorn on BP's green re-branding. Greenpeace gave the company its Greenhouse Greenwash Award, given to the largest "corporate climate culprit" on earth.
The Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight
Author: Rangan, V. Kasturi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Starting as a modest 20-bed hospital, Aravind had grown into a 1,400-bed hospital complex by 1992. It had by then screened 3.65 million patients and performed 335,000 cataract surgeries, nearly 70% of them free of cost for the poorest of India's blind population...
Merck & Co., Inc.: Addressing Third World Needs (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Weiss, Stephanie; Hanson, Kirk O.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Business Enterprise Trust
Publication Year: 1991
Researchers at Merck & Co. believe that a drug they had developed for animals might be an effective treatment for human river blindness, a debilitating illness that affects hundreds of thousands of poor people in the Third World. The process of development and testing, however, will be enormously costly...
Shell and Its Stakeholders- The Transformation of Shell, 1994-1999 (B Case) (interactive case)
Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: www.i-case.com
Publication Year: 1997
This case discusses Shell's effort to reorganize so that its financial, social and environmental performance would be equally valued and integrated in the operation of the corporation. The case then reviews past environmental and human rights controversies, including the Brent Spar incident, human rights abuses in Nigeria and the recent campaign by shareholders of reform in corporate governance...
Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Bartlett, Nicholas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
This case was analyzed for the 2003 Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition. In the final years of the 20th century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine
The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A, B, C, D, E)
Authors: Ferman, Carrie; Esty, Benjamin C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
On June 6, 2000, the World Bank's and IFC's board of directors was scheduled to vote on whether to approve funding for the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline project. Although the project presented a unique opportunity to alleviate poverty in Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world, Chad had a president who had been described as a "warlord" and a history of civil war and oppression...
Anatomy of a Corporate Campaign: Rainforest Action Network and Citigroup
Authors: Yurday, Erin; Baron, David P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2004
Citigroup, the world's largest project finance bank, provided financing for extractive projects such as mining, logging, and oil exploration. Some of these projects took place in developing countries and in rainforests and other endangered ecosystems. In 2000, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) launched its Global Finance Campaign with Citigroup as the target. The goal was to convince Citigroup, and eventually all lenders, to stop financing destructive activities in endangered ecosystems...
CARE Kenya: Making Social Enterprise Sustainable
Authors: Ewart, Tom; Bansal, Pratima
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
CARE's Rural Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Promotion project is a new, market-driven approach to development in Kenya. While the project has been successful from a development standpoint, it is not commercially viable...
Procter & Gamble and Population Services International (PSI): Social Marketing for Safe Water
Authors: Hanson, Margaret; Powell, Karen
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2006
PuR, the water purification product sold in small sachets, had suffered a string of failed market tests, but the public health benefits of the product had been demonstrated repeatedly in bottom of the pyramid (BOP) markets where finding clean drinking water can be a daily calamity...
Procter & Gamble PuR Purifier of Water™ (A, B)
Authors: Hanson, Margaret; Powell, Karen
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2006
Procter & Gamble's PuR: Purifier of Water, a household water treatment sold in small sachets, was developed in collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and targeted 'bottom of the pyramid' households, where water treatment facilities are often lacking...
Safaricom Limited
Author: Mayaka, Charles
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2005
Joseph and his team had only just begun to get settled in Nairobi, and it now appeared that the race for mobile telephone customers had begun sooner than he had anticipated. It was time to get out of the starting blocks. But how?
Shell Oil in Nigeria (Interactive Case)
Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: www.i-case.com
Publication Year: 1997
This case traces the history of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, up to the current crisis of reputation brought about by the execution of world renowned Nigerian novelist and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995. This case presents links to sites which enhance the case ...
Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria
Author: Litvak, Isaiah A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
To address increasing political violence, Royal Dutch Shell brings in a policy consultant to help the firm establish socially responsible business practices in the Niger Delta.
Shell in Nigeria
Authors: Hendry, John; Mellor, Kate; Hak, Zain; Ade-Ajayi, Funmi; Vieira, Waldir; Zou, Yuan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Cambridge Judge Business School
Publication Year: 2000
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This case reviews the public controversy surrounding Shell's operations in Nigeria in the 1990s...
GlaxoSmithKline and AIDS Drugs in South Africa (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Yaziji, M.; Lindblom, A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2005
The case describes the interactions among pharmaceutical companies, non-government organisations (NGOs), and governments in the context of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa.
City Water Tanzania (A, B, C-A, C-B, D)
Authors: Branzei, Oana; McKague, Kevin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
This multi-part case series examines the Tanzania government's efforts to address a pressing deterioration in the infrastructure and services of Dar es Salaam's Water and Sewage Authority. It is ideally suited for core or elective courses in strategy and sustainability to illustrate the types of ongoing tensions and divergent decision angles that influence the formation and performance of public-private partnerships and managing in a global context.
De Beers: Addressing the New Competitiveness Challenges
Authors: Marciano, Sonia; Porter, Michael E.; Warhurst, Alyson
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Traces the development of De Beers and the diamond industry and enables deep examination of the interdependence of companies and the locations and communities in which they operate. This case examines how firms create prosperity, how firms are responsible for social problems, and what they should do in the locations in which they operate.
Mabati Rolling Mills Ltd
Authors: K'Aol, George O.; Gatumo, Francis; Low, Murray
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2005
It was early 1999 when the management team of Mabati Rolling Mills Ltd (MRM), led by their CEO Mr. Kaushik Shah, submitted a proposal to the Board of Directors. The proposal identified specific technology upgrading and growth strategies based on process and product innovations that would make MRM the sole manufacturer of superior Aluminum-Zinc coated sheets and coils in Africa...
Dr. Iqbal Surve at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Hill, Linda A.; Stecker, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self-described “medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur,” was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer “a gentler capitalism” that stressed putting people before profits, and talent development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans.
Eco-Identity as Discursive Struggle: Royal Dutch/Shell, Brent Spar and Nigeria
Author: Livesey, Sharon M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Journal of Business Communication
Publication Year: 2001
This paper examines business environmental discourse (BED), or eco-discourse, by the corporate rhetoric that emerges in the wake of environmental disputes. While such eco-talk might be conventionally viewed as a category of crisis communication, it is treated here as an instrument of corporate sense-making and discursive struggle...
Commercial Bank of Africa
Authors: Chege, Gerald W.; Anzaya, Mbithe; Mullins, John; Low, Murray
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) was a medium-sized bank, incorporated in Kenya. The bank served the Kenyan corporate sector as well as international institutions and organizations with offices in Kenya. In late 2003 Mr. Isaac Awuondo, the Managing Director of CBA, was facing an information technology management dilemma...
Pick ‘n Pay – Rekindling Company Values
Author: Stockport, Gary J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Cape Town
Publication Year: 1999
This case study discusses a rekindling of a company's values within a retailing company that has grown from 4 stores and 50 employees in 1967 to some 265 stores and around 28,000 staff in 1998...
Firestone East Africa (1969) Limited (Now Sameer Africa Limited)
Author: Lewa, Peter M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
Mr. Naushad Noorali Merali, chairman of Firestone East Africa (1969) Limited, had never been known to shy away from any business challenge. He firmly believed that nothing was impossible once a person put his or her mind to solve it. He looked at any business challenge as an opportunity to learn from, whether the outcome was a success or a failure. In January, 1993 the government of Kenya announced that it had put in place a framework for the full liberalization of the economy...
Kenya Tea Development Agency
Author: Chege, Gerald W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2005
One morning in March 2001, Mr. James K. Njoroge, the Managing Director of Kenya Tea Development Agency, sat in his office on the eighth floor of KTDA Plaza in Nairobi, the company's head office. He focused his mind on the scheduled board meeting to be held the following week. The meeting had only one agenda item to decide the approach that KTDA should take to solve its information management problems...
In the Shadow of the City
Authors: Reed, James; Richardson, Nicholas; Donnellon, Anne
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1990
Traces the history of a collaborative effort to create an organization to manage a major international development project in the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Focuses on a serious set of disagreements which develops several months into the project between the two principals, an Ethiopian woman who founded the project and a British entrepreneur who is the coordinator of the donor consortium...
Shell Oil in Nigeria
Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: North American Case Research Association, Case Research Journal, Winter 1997; The Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 1997
Royal Dutch/Shell, a major oil company, faced widespread international criticism following the execution of Nigerian novelist and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in November 1995...
De Beers Consolidated Mines: HIV/AIDS Strategy
Authors: Korpalo, Olga; Zimmerman, Brenda
Product Type: Cases
Source: Schulich School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Joy Beckett, De Beers’ HIV/AIDS Manager, Operations, returned to Johannesburg from the Toronto International AIDS Conference in August 2006. She was very excited to share her new knowledge and the connections she acquired at the conference with her colleagues. However, she realized she needed to think carefully about how to share her ideas for expanding the impact of De Beers HIV/AIDS programs with her colleagues especially in light of the current company restructuring which had been going on for the last three years. A second wave of retrenchment had been just announced.
Coca-Cola in Africa: Increasing Productivity by Combating AIDS
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2008
Cocal-Cola has launched several initiatives to educate, protect and curb the AIDS crisis for its employees, in turn helping the economic growth of the whole region.
Phil Chan (A, B)
Authors: Beamish, Paul W.; Schaan, Jean-Louis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The case deals with a scam that has been run out of Nigeria since 1990. In it, foreign companies are approached for their assistance in facilitating an international transfer of funds in order to receive a very large but unearned commission...
World Vision International's AIDS Initiative
Authors: Bartlett, Christopher A.; Curran, Daniel F.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
World Vision's International office is planning to implement a major global HIV/AIDS initiative that challenges the strategic direction, organizational capabilities, and even underlying values of its carefully constructed world partnership. Analyzes the challenges of building and managing a global network organization and explore the task of implementing strategic change in a complex, global environment.
De Beers at the Millennium
Authors: Ghemawat, Pankaj; Marciano, Sonia
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Consumers' increasing awareness that diamond production in some countries was linked to inequities and human rights violations had an impact on De Beers' reputation. In 2000, De Beers' sustainability depends on the ability of its leaders to shift the paradigm of both the firm and its context.
Socially Responsible Pricing: Lessons from the Pricing of Aids Drugs in Developing Countries
Authors: Vachani, Sushil; Smith, N. Craig
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review, CMR 300
Publication Year: 2004
Corporate social responsibility has major implications for pricing decisions in some markets...
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (A, B, C)
Author: Velamuri, S. Ramakrishna
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2003
The case outlines the difficulties faced by Strive Masiyiwa in his quest to operate a mobile telecommunications network in Zimbabwe...
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...
Volkswagen in the Global War Against HIV/AIDS
Authors: Bruzzi Boechat, Cláudio; Werneck, Nísia Duarte; Masilela, Temba; Miraglia, Letícia
Product Type: Cases
Source: UN Global Compact Learning Forum
Publication Year: 2004
The HIV/AIDS epidemic became a global disease and threatens humankind. Volkswagen decided to face the challenge of facing it in global and local approaches...
Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience
Authors: McElhaney, Kellie A.; Hill, Natalie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Global Compact Learning Forum United Nations, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, California
Publication Year: 2002
This case study describes how an industrial design company developed a Sustainability Management System (SMS) standard, designed and implemented an SMS throughout its business, and then became the first company in the world to achieve third-party SMS certification...
Public Action to Remedy Hunger
Author: Sen, Amartya
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Speeches
Source: The Hunger Project
Publication Year: 1990
Amartya Sen argues that systematic public action can eradicate the terrible and resilient problems of starvation and hunger in the world in which we live...
The Freeplay Energy Group and Foundation (A, B)
Authors: Coles, Emma; Mair, Johanna
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2004
The Freeplay Energy Group was founded in 1995 to produce wind up radios. The company produced its first radios in 1996. It took its social responsibilities seriously from the beginning and in 1998 founded the Freeplay Foundation to enable the sustained delivery of radio information and education to the most vulnerable populations via self-powered radios...
Honey Care Africa: A Tripartite Model for Sustainable Beekeeping
Authors: Branzei, Oana; Valente, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
The director and co-founder of Honey Care Africa (Honey Care) looks back over the six years of operations and describes the original business model. Increasing international recognition highlights the potential impact of the model on inspiring sustainable grassroots ventures in the agriculture sector in Kenya.
Vegpro Group: Growing in Harmony
Authors: Shelman, Mary L.; Milder, Brian; Bell, David E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This case illustrates inherent conflicts between social causes.
The Fair Trade Story (A, B, C)
Author: Hockerts, Kai
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2005
This case traces the evolution of fair trade, from ‘charity trade', i.e. the sale of objects produced in developing countries with little functional value to the sale of functional, and often organic products...
Kenya Airways (A)
Author: Munene, Catherine
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
In February 2003, Mr. Titus Naikuni was hired as Managing Director and CEO of the Kenya Airways Group. After attending the first few weekly business meetings as the Group's Managing Director and CEO, he realized he needed to develop a new direction for the company...
Heineken NV: Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa (A, B, C)
Authors: Barrett, Diana; Ballou, Daniella
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
This case shows how Heineken is responding to the global AIDS epidemic and considering it as part of the company's corporate social responsibility. Explores the opportunities, challenges, and motivations for a multinational company in Africa to respond to the AIDS epidemic through a workplace program.
Merck Global Health Initiatives (A, B)
Authors: Austin, James E.; Barrett, Diana; Weber, Jeffrey
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2001
Focuses on Merck's drug donation program and then raises new issues facing management about what to do about HIV/AIDS in Africa given the company's development of a new therapy. Describes collaboration among many parties including the Gates Foundation, other pharmaceutical companies, and the government of Botswana...
Developing a Management System's Approach to Sustainability at BMW Group (Part 1 of 2)
Authors: McElhaney, Kellie A.; Toffel, Michael W.; Hill, Natalie
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Corporate Environmental Strategy: International Journal of Corporate Sustainability
Publication Year: 2009
This article describes how DesignWorks/USA, a subsidiary of BMW Group, developed a Sustainability Management System (SMS) by integrating the management of environmental, social and traditional business issues.
Customer Relationship Management at BBSN
Author: David-West, Olayinka
Product Type: Cases
Source: Lagos Business School
Publication Year: 2005
In March 2005 and after almost a decade in business, Ronke Dawodu, founder and Managing Director of BuyBest Supermarket Nigeria (BBSN), wondered when her company would develop the ability to track customers and reward them continuously for their loyalty and patronage...
Muslim Colas
Authors: Faulk, Saskia; Usunier, Jean-Claude
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Lausanne
Publication Year: 2006
This case deals with the rise of colas marketed by Muslim-led businesses, in the context of consumer boycotts of American products and brands. The purpose is to emphasise how politics and political events may impact consumer behaviour, competition, and business strategy.
De Beers: Addressing the New Competitiveness Challenges
Authors: Marciano, S.; Porter, Michael E.; Warhurst, A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
In this case, De Beers faces critical choices about both its economic and social policies and how they interrelate. The teaching purpose is to examine how firms create prosperity, how firms are responsible for social problems, and what they should do in the locations in which they operate.
Capitec Bank: Low-Cost Banking for Joe Average
Authors: Mosala, T.; Townsend, S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Wits Business School - University of the Witwatersrand
Publication Year: 2007
Capitec Bank, which began specializing in microlending, expands services to its entry level clients. This case discusses how to increase its target market, and change the Bank's image to an all service bank.
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