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Southwest Airlines
Author: Kochan, Thomas A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work: Lessons from Leading Cases, Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
Publication Year: 1999
Faculty Rating: 
[1 Faculty Rating] 30212 views
Southwest Airlines has consistently been successful in terms of profitability, good employee and union relations, and customer satisfaction – at a time when most airline carriers are struggling in all these areas. Central to the company's success is a culture of flexibility, family-orientation, and fun...
GVV Curriculum: Home Page
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type:
Source: Giving Voice to Values Curriculum Initiative
Publication Year: 2009
Giving Voice to Values (GVV) is an innovative research and curriculum development project, launched by The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and Yale School of Management. This page serves as the homepage for Faculty for GVV materials...
Preparing to be the Stakeholder Relationship Manager: The Case of Wal-Mart
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2007
This Teaching Module now includes a Teaching Note for Faculty. The job description for Wal-Mart's recently created "Senior Director for Stakeholder Management" seeks "an innovative, out-of-the-box thinker" who can work on the company's commitments in areas including labor and wages, health care, product sourcing, and the environment. Are business schools today training leaders who could fill this role?
Google's HR Practices: A Strategic Edge?
Authors: John, D.; Girija, P.; Nightingale, F
Product Type: Cases
Source: IBS Research Center
Publication Year: 2008
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 11694 views
This case helps students: (1) to analyze how employees help a company in differentiating itself from its competitors in knowledge-based industries; (2) to analyze how companies attract the best-knowledge workers and retain employees in a competitive environment; (3) to analyze the innovative HR practices and the 'Best Place to Work For' culture at Google; and (4) to analyze the future implications of Google's HR practices in the long run.
Giving Voice to Values Curriculum: Home Page
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Syllabi
Source: Giving Voice to Values Curriculum Initiative
Publication Year: 2009
Drawing on both the actual experiences of business practitioners as well as cutting edge social science and management research, Giving Voice to Values fills a long-standing and critical gap in business education by expanding the definition of what it means to teach business ethics.
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream Inc.: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive
Author: Theroux, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1991
Ben & Jerry's is an anti-establishment, values-driven company that has become a successful venture. The dominant founder, Ben Cohen, is not an effective manager, but he brings creative marketing and product skills that have been important to the company's success...
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...
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
This Teaching Module addresses key issues around low-wage work in the American economy. Its purpose is to introduce the theme of low-wage work and discuss competing sides of the issues it raises for managers, as well as provide examples of solutions businesses have used to address some of the challenges raised by low-wage work.
Nike Inc.: Developing an Effective Public Relations Strategy
Authors: Everett, Donna R.; Slaughter, Kathleen E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2000
It had been almost a decade since the first article surfaced in the media alleging that factories sub-contracted by Nike in China and Indonesia were forcing workers to work long hours for low pay, and for physically and verbally abusive managers. The article was the seed of a media campaign that created a public relations nightmare for the company...
Iggy's Bread of the World
Authors: Gendron, Alexis; Valley, Kathleen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2000
In January 1994, Igor and Ludmilla Ivanovic opened the doors of their bakery, Iggy's Bread of the World. This case describes their unusual mission statement and the way in which they try to bring a social consciousness mentality to a for-profit business...
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