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Rehabilitation Alliance Hong Kong: Next Step Forward
Authors: Tsai, Terence; Li, Barbara
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The case describes the unique business model of Rehabilitation Alliance Hong Kong (RAHK) beginning with its strategic alliance with Dairy Farm to run 7-Eleven convenience stores, with an aim to create job opportunities for its disabled members.
American Mining Company (AMC) in Columbia
Author: Guthery, D
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2001
This case focuses on the ethical dimensions of a decision an American-based company must make in order to survive in a country experiencing civil war...
Corporate Redesign
Author:
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: 2007 Summit of the Future of the Corporation
Publication Year: 2007
Corporation 20/20 (www.Corporation2020.org), launched in 2004, is a forum, visionary and advocate for transformation of corporations in ways that harness the innovation and resources of private interests to serve the public interest in the 21st century.
A Contractarian Defense of Corporate Philanthropy
Author: Blair, Margaret
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stetson Law Review, Volume 28, # 1, Summer 1998.
Publication Year: 1997
Statutory and case law make it clear that corporate officers and directors have very wide discretion to direct reasonable amounts of corporate resources toward artistic, educational, and humanitarian causes, even if those causes have only a remote connection (or no obvious connection at all) to the business goals and profitability of the firm.
Mining and Metals: Global Portability of Governance and Agreements
Authors: Shattuck, Rachel; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
A common question in International Management is whether practices can be exported “as is,” whether they must be adapted, or whether a balance can be struck between these two approaches.
Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?
Author: Holland, Kelley
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2009
With the economy in disarray and so many financial firms in free fall, analysts, and even educators themselves, are wondering if the way business students are taught may have contributed to the most serious economic crisis in decades.
Business Education's Role In the Crisis of Corporate Confidence
Author: Gioia, Dennis A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Executive, Vol. 16, Issue 3.
Publication Year: 2002
This article discusses the role business educators have played in the present crisis of corporate confidence.
Barriers to resolution in ideologically based negotiations: The role of values and institutions
Authors: Wade-Benzoni, Kimberly A.; Thompson, Leigh L.; Moore, Don A.; Gillespie, James J.; Bazerman, Max H.; Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Review, 27 (1): 41-57. 2002.
Publication Year: 2002
This article differentiates ideaologically based negotiations from other types of negotiations and illustrates the value laden and institutional contexts in which they occur. Using environment related issues, the paper offers constructive suggestions for overcoming barriers to conflict resolution.
New Wine, New Bottles: The Rise of Non-Financial Reporting - A Business Brief for Social Responsibility
Author: White, Allen L.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Business for Social Responsibility Website
Publication Year: 2005
This article traces changes in corporate reporting practices which indicate that non-financial reporting is on a trajectory to becoming standard business practice in the 21st century...
Benjamin Moore & Co. Ltd. And the Government of British Columbia's Waste Paint Regulation
Authors: Sexty, Robert W.; Burt, Marie C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: NACRA, North American Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 1996
The Government of British Columbia has passed regulations relating to the disposal of waste paint products. Most leftover paint in the hands of consumers was considered a hazardous waste, and there was concern about the harmful effects the disposal of this waste might have on the environment...
Cinergy
Author: Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Pew Center on Global Climate Change (www.pewclimate.org)
Publication Year: 2006
Cinergy's heavy reliance upon coal combustion for electricity generation makes it particularly vulnerable to carbon regulation. Yet, according to Chairman and CEO Jim Rogers, addressing greenhouse gas emissions is not only the ethically right thing to do; it is also a smart business decision.
The Buck Stops Where?
Authors: Davies, Roberts; Nelson, Jane
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: International Business Leaders Forum
Publication Year: 2003
This article describes the differing kinds of global business issues that challenge notions of corporate role and responsibility, and suggests a framework for categorizing and beginning to address these challenges.
AXA MONY
Authors: Perold, Andre F.; White, Lucy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
AXA's friendly bid for MONY is contested by activist hedge funds suspicious of management's generous change in control contracts.
Orsa Group: The Challenge of Sustainable Development in the Amazon
Authors: Fischer, Rosa Maria; Zylbersztajn, Decio; Pires, Joao Teixeira; Mendonca, Luciana Rocha de
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2004
More than a mere social welfare action branch, the Orsa Foundation became a priority within company operations.
Global Warming: A Drag on Businesses
Author: Ahmad, Aftab
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Dawn (Pakistan's widely circulated English newspaper)
Publication Year: 2006
If global warming intensifies, there will be more heat-related deaths and more damage to crops and livestock as a result of droughts...
The Story of Success: Five Steps to Mastering Ethics in Business
Author: Hafrey, Leigh
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Other Press
Publication Year: 2005
In this book the author draws on fifteen years of conversations with business people at all stages of their careers, from MBA to Chairman of the Board, to articulate five steps that generate ethical practice:...
What Research in Marketing Can Teach Managers About Improving Corporate Social Performance
Author: Bloom, Paul
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2006
This paper presents an overview of the research undertaken by marketing scholars concerned with the social impact of marketing practices.
Activist Inside: Making Responsible Procurement Happen
Authors: Billington, C.; Barnett Berg, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD
Publication Year: 2008
The learning objectives are to learn: (1) how procurement can be innovative and successful by launching a CSR program; (2) how to make an initiative successful without a large budget and resources; and (3) the importance of crafting a well defined and usable toolkit for the implementation of the initiative.
Three Guineas Fund
Authors: Lagenfeld, Stephanie; Ramfelt, Lena; Kosnik, Thomas J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Publication Year: 2006
In 1997, Cate Muther, of Three Guineas Fund and Jim Robbins, of Business Cluster Development, both very successful entrepreneurs, established the Women's Technology Cluster (WTC) in response to the National Foundation of Women Business Owners' determination that only 1% of nearly 8 million women-owned businesses in the United States received venture capital financing.
Good Works in a Corporate Ghetto
Authors: Smith, N. Craig; Cohon, Craig
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Financial Times
Publication Year: 2004
In this article the authors argue that despite all of the attention given to corporate social responsibility (CSR), with only a few exceptions, the only group that has seen benefits are the industry consultants. In most companies CSR is a marginalized operation, often assigned to a single department responsible for the company's public image...
Compassionate Manufacturing: Doing Business with the Poor
Author: Herbst, Kris
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source:
Publication Year: 2003
This article focuses on entrepreneur David Green and his financially successful nonprofit manufacturing company, Aurolab, which produces surgically implanted artificial lenses for cataract patients in developing countries.
Let's Build Their Dreams: Danone Mexico and the CASA De La Amistad Para Ninos Con Cancer, IAP
Authors: Lozano, Gerardo; Maass, Angel; Moxon, Christopher
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network
Publication Year: 2003
In 1997, the Mexican subsidiary of the Groupe Danone, a global actor in the food industry, decided to launch a cause-related marketing campaign jointly with a civil society organization...
Citigroup and Cordaid Award Grants to Support Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade
Author:
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: CSR Wire
Publication Year: 2007
The Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST), an association of financial service providers and organizations invested in the development of "sustainable trade finance", announced today that they have received essential "start-up" grants from Citigroup Foundation and Cordaid...
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
Author: Wei-Skillern, Jane
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
The truth is that many non-profit efforts, despite the best intentions, have not solved the issues they target, says Harvard Business School professor Jane Wei-Skillern.
Aravind Eye Hospital 2000
Authors: Kumar, Nirmalya; Rogers, Brian
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD - International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2000
Since 1993, the Aravind Eye Hospital had grown significantly in terms of service delivery and infrastructure, having added a fourth hospital to its operations. Aravind had made progress in several key areas.
Socially Responsible Pricing: Lessons from the Pricing of AIDS Drugs in Developing Countries
Authors: Smith, N. Craig; Vachani, Sushil
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2004
Corporate social responsibility has major implications for pricing decisions in some markets. An extreme case is the pricing of life-saving drugs in developing countries...
Handbook on Responsible Leadership and Governance in Global Business
Authors: Doh, Jonathan P.; Stumpf, Stephen A.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
Ethics, social responsibility, leadership, governance. These terms are heard in the classroom, in the boardroom, and viewed on the front page of newspapers and magazines. Yet serious attention to the relationships among these concepts is lacking...
TATA Power - Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Authors: Deshmukh, Rama; Adhikari, Atanu
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2010
The case describes the strategic dilemma involved in making a decision on the method of operation of the corporate social responsibility department for one of the leading Indian multinational corporations, Tata Power Company from Tata Group of Companies.
The Gulf Center for Excellence in Ethics
Author: Levine, Jonathan B.
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 Gulf Centre for Excellence in Ethics opened formally in 1998 to educate businesses and governments in the Arabian Gulf about the need to establish standards for workplace ethics...
Heb International Supermarkets and the Banco de Alimentos De Caritas de Monterrey
Authors: Romero, C; Serrano, L; Lozano, Gerardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2003
HEB, a family-owned Texan retailer, is the 12th largest supermarket chain in the United States. In expanding its operations into Mexico in 1997, the company transferred not only its products and services but also its social strategy of working with food banks...
Indiagriline by EID Parry
Authors: Annamalai, Kuttayan; Rao, Sachin
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Michigan Business School
Publication Year: 2003
In early 2001 EID Parry Ltd. set up Internet kiosks in 16 villages around its sugar factory in Nellikuppam, Tamil Nadu. These kiosks are intended to be business hubs of their respective villages – a one-stop shop that acted as a storefront for buying farm inputs, market for selling goods and an Internet café for communication and information services.
South African Mining and Asbestos-Related Diseases (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Publishing Company
Publication Year: 2006
These cases explain the history of asbestos mining in South Africa, the complicated relationship between the multinational companies and an apartheid and post-apartheid South African regime, and details the struggles and issues that many ARD-afflicted South Africans faced in bringing the multinationals to justice and seeking redress.
innocent: Values and Value
Authors: Brown, R.; Grayson, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: European Academy of Business in Society
Publication Year: 2008
In 2008, innocent’s vision is to be “Europe’s favorite little smoothie company” by 2010.
Investing in Socially Responsible Companies Is a Must for Public Pension Funds – Because There Is No Better Alternative
Author: Sethi, S. Prakash
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics 56, 2005
Publication Year: 2005
With assets of over US $1.0 trillion and growing, public pension funds in the United States have become a major force in the private sector through their holding of equity positions in large publicly traded corporations...
New Tool Helps Companies Green Their Business Air Travel
Author: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2007
A university research group has created a toolkit to encourage greener business travel. Omega, a government funded research group comprised of nine universities, government departments and members of the Aviation Environment Federation, released details of the toolkit last week...
Managing Responsibility: What Can be Learned from the Quality Movement?
Authors: Waddock, Sandra; Bodwell, Charles
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2004
For global companies that implement their codes of conduct within long supply chains, managing responsibility is increasingly starting to resemble managing quality...
Business Ethics
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source:
Publication Year: 2004
Business Ethics is a Canadian site offering and leading users to business case studies that focus on ethics. It offers articles and news coverage, as well as pointing users to business case studies...
Natura-Ekos
Authors: Fischer, Rosa Maria; Casado, T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
When it launched the Ekos product line, Natura drove social responsibility to the core of its business. Instead of simply buying the raw materials from traditional indigenous communities, Natura built a partnership with these communities to share with them the economic benefits resulting from responsible resource exploration.
U.S. Trust: Evaluating Labor Practices (Unabridged)
Authors: Tulloch, Henry W.; Cook, Stephen B.; Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 1991
The Socially Sensitive Investing Group at U.S. Trust is asked to develop criteria for assessing the fairness of labor practices in both union and nonunion companies. U.S. Trust's client, the Calvert Social Investment Fund, wants more explicit standards than those currently in use...
MacMillan Bloedel vs. Greenpeace
Authors: Letovsky, R; Johnson, J
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2002
In 1997, a coalition of environemental groups, led by Greenpeace, began a public pressure campaign against the British Columbia forestry industry, led by MacMillan Bloedel, Inc (MB), over clear-cutting logging in the old-growth rainforests of the province. The campaign started with acts of civil disobedience aimed at disrupting logging operations and protests at various locations throughout Europe.
Institutional Investors Find Common Ground with Social Investors
Author: Smith, Timothy
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming in the four book series, The Accountable Corporation, edited by Marc Epstein and Kirk Hanson, Praeger Publishing, 2005.
Publication Year: 2004
The integration of social and environmental considerations in the investment process was the exclusive realm of the so-called ‘social investor' until relatively recently...
The Next Big Thing
Author: Lindsay, Greg
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: FedEx
Publication Year: 2009
Terms like the information age, the flat world and the network economy attempt to describe the unprecedented changes the world has seen in our lifetime. What they ultimately point to —and what encompasses them all — is Access. Understanding how Access works is the key to harnessing its power.
Norsk Hydro ASA: Sustainable PVC at Hydro Polymers?
Authors: Brennan, Josephine; Smith, N. Craig
Product Type: Cases
Source: European Academy of Business in Society
Publication Year: 2008
On 21st March 2006, Hydro Polymers Limited, a division of Norsk Hydro ASA, the fourth largest polyvinyl chloride (PVC) manufacturer in Europe and one of only two in the UK, brought its key UK customers together to showcase its strategy for sustainable PVC.
Pharmaceuticals and the Developing World
Author: Kremer, Michael
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Economic Perspectives. Vol. 16, Num. 4, Fall 2002
Publication Year: 2002
This article reviews a set of reasons for market failures around the provision of drugs in poor countries, and then discusses various policy prescriptions. It places the corporate experience within a larger public policy context.
Industry Self-Regulation without Sanctions: The Chemical Industry's Responsible Care Program
Authors: King, Andrew; Lenox, Michael
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Academy of Management Journal, Volume 43, No. 4, pp. 698-716.
Publication Year: 2000
Industry self-regulation – the voluntary association of firms to control their collective action – has been proposed as a complement to government regulation...
DaimlerChrysler South Africa – Dealing With the Effects of HIV/AIDS on Human and Social Capital
Authors: Seitz, Bernhard; Staber, Udo; Joncyk, Claudia
Product Type: Cases
Source: UN Global Compact Learning Forum
Publication Year: 2002
AIDS is a deadly disease. With 360.000 South Africans having died in 2001 because of HIV/AIDS and 5 Mio. South Africans being reported HIV positive (HIV+), the disease is a serious threat to social stability and economic prosperity in that country...
Oxfam and the Campaign to Bring Affordable HIV Treatment to South Africa
Authors: Klein, J.; Kapstein, E.; Crawford, R.
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2003
During the 1990s, South Africa, along with many other developing countries, agreed to accept World Trade Organisation disciplines with respect to trade in intellectual property - the so-called TRIPS agreement. In 1997, however, the South African Government passed a new Medicines Act, which a group of pharmaceutical companies argued was in violation of South African patent laws and of the TRIPS accord. The lawsuit was quickly attacked by such leading non-governmental organisations as Oxfam.
The 21st-Century MBA
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2008
Business schools are now at a crossroads. Critics from outside and, more vociferously, inside the academy are taking aim at the way these schools train leaders
Offshoring and Innovation at GlobalCo: Negotiating a Win-Win Strategy for the Outsourcing Relationship
Author: Barrett, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Cambridge Judge Business School
Publication Year: 2008
In recent years, the evolution of IT offshoring relationships has been marked by a gradual shift away from their traditional focus on low cost and labor arbitrage.
What Matters Most: Corporate Values and Social Responsibility
Author: Hollender, Jeffrey
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review, Volume 46, No. 4, Summer, 2004
Publication Year: 2004
There are still some who consider the phrase "socially responsible business" a contradiction in terms and who feel that the notion of corporate social responsibility is merely a trend and intrinsically suspect. Other believe...
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