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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...
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
Author: Friedman, Milton
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Speeches
Source: The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.
Publication Year: 1970
"When I hear businessmen speak eloquently about the "social responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise system," it's obvious that they believe that they are defending free enterprise
Doing Better at Doing Good: When, Why and How Consumers Respond to Corporate Social Initiatives
Authors: Bhattacharya, C.B.; Sen, Sankar
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2004
Although companies are devoting significant resources to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, insights into the optimal formulation, implementation, and effectiveness estimation of CSR strategies are currently scarce. This article takes an in-depth look at when, why, and how CSR works from a consumer's perspective...
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.
Productivity of Growing Global Energy Demand
Author: McKinsey Global Institute, The
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The McKinsey Global Institute
Publication Year: 2006
To date, the global debate about energy has focused too narrowly on curbing demand. Instead, the best way to meet the challenge of growing global energy demand may be to focus on energy productivity, which reconciles both demand abatement and energy-efficiency.
Texas Gulf Sulphur
Authors: Reiling, Henry B.; Camargo, Maria M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Employees, officers, and directors of Texas Gulf Sulphur acquired or tipped off others to acquire common stock or options before and concurrent with the announcement of a major discovery of ore.
China Minmetals Corporation and Noranda Inc.
Author: Litvak, Isaiah A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The proposed takeover of Noranda Inc. (one of the biggest mineral players in the world) by the Chinese state owned enterprise, China Minmetals Corporation, was cause for Canadian government concern as it required some understanding about the workings and objectives of state owned enterprises. There was particular concern around the labour issues and human rights violations in China...
Everyday High Health Costs; One Giant's Struggle Is Corporate America's, Too
Author: Abelson, Reed
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
Back in the spring, amid relentless criticism that Wal-Mart Stores was failing to provide affordable health care to employees, executives at the company decided to take a detailed look at its benefits. Wal-Mart knew its health costs were spiraling upward out of control, said M. Susan Chambers, the senior executive who led the initiative, but it was surprised to discover that its critics had a point...
Tiffany & Co: A Case Study in Diamonds and Social Responsibility
Author: Zalcman, Miriam
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge @ Wharton
Publication Year: 2004
Michael J. Kowalski, chairman and CEO of Tiffany & Co., the world-famous luxury jeweler and specialty retailer, wasted no time correcting what he called a "misperception" about his company's products...
The End of Corporate Imperialism
Authors: Prahalad, C.K.; Lieberthal, Kenneth
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2003
As they search for growth, multinational corporations will have no choice but to compete in the big emerging markets of China, India, Indonesia, and Brazil. Although it is still common to question how such corporations will change life in those markets, Western executives would be smart to turn the question around and ask how multinationals themselves will be transformed by these markets...
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