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Yakima Filters: From Waste Tires to Clean Water
Authors: Lawrence, Anne T.; Solt, Michael E.; Osland, Asbjorn
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2006
A chemical engineer, Dr. Aslam Mohamed Ali had developed a promising technology for manufacturing activated carbon from recycled waste tires. How could he best move forward from prototypes to production?
Social Responsibility in Business
Author: Lele, Shreevardhan
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Maryland
Publication Year: 2008
Course Objectives:
1.Analyze issues at the intersection of business and society using there types of criteria: economic, legal and ethical.
2.Understand and use frameworks for moral reasoning.
3.Understand the variety of values and institutions (or practices, or arrangements, or mechanisms) that are, and can be, used in making managerial decisions.
4.Understand managerial agency, and to view leadership as the exercise of managerial agency to change values and institutions.
5.View business management as a profession, and to develop an identity as a member of this profession in a global society.
6.Develop a personal set of aspirational values; and to identify practices that will facilitate the promotion of those aspirational values.
GE, Wal-Mart Chiefs Renew 'Green' Vows
Author: Gunther, Marc
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Fortune Magazine
Publication Year: 2008
GE's Jeff Immelt and Wal-Mart's Lee Scott fend off attacks on their environmental policies.
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...
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.
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...
Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces
Authors: Viswanathan, Madhu; Yassine, Ali
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne - College of Business
Publication Year: 2007
Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces” will combine in-class pedagogy with significant experiential learning, resulting in useful and marketable product concepts and prototypes...
Texas Instruments
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2006
Texas Instruments (TI) is a global semiconductor company that employs over 40,000 people worldwide, with operations in more than 25 countries in North and South America, Asia, and Europe. TI has demonstrated clear leadership in the Dallas area not only in minority and women-owned business development, but also in community support and business development through philanthropic, volunteer, and venture capital activities.
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...
Corporate Diplomacy
Author: Henisz, Witold J.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2009
This course surveys the managerial, political economic, sociological and psychological foundations of corporate diplomacy as well as 12 case study examples of successful and failed implementation in order to develop an interdisciplinary framework for the play of global influence games.
Supermarkets in Inner Cities
Authors: Austin, James E.; Elias, Jaan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1996
Excerpts from five articles that present the challenges and opportunities inherent in opening and operating supermarkets in inner-city neighborhoods.
Maria Yee Inc.
Authors: Carroll, Glenn; Shao, Charlie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
In 2008, Maria Yee Inc. occupied a unique position as a premium "green" household furniture maker with two direct-owned factories in China and distribution through several large U.S. retailers. The case addresses the unique challenges that an entrepreneurial company faces in reaching its full potential as a business while advancing its green strategy.
Web-Conference: Addressing Climate Change in the MBA Classroom
Author: Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2006
Interested in incorporating discussion on climate change into your strategy and finance courses? Hear the results of a one-year study into the motivations and mechanics of corporate climate related strategies...
ChoicePoint (A, B)
Author: Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
The CEO of ChoicePoint, a leading company in the rapidly growing U.S. personal data industry, must reexamine the company's business model after a serious breach of data security affecting some 145,000 U.S. citizens...
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...
Agriculture Canada: Adoption of the Poultry Condemnation Program - CDXP
Authors: Parent, Michael; Kelley, Hellen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2002
After spending many months developing and testing a new tracking and reporting program called CDXP, an end-user with the Department of Agriculture's Food Production and Inspection Branch in Alberta, Canada, must decide on an action plan to convince his superiors at Agriculture Canada, the Corporate Information Systems group and poultry processors to adopt this program...
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.
Great Valley Center
Author: Howard, Don
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Bridgespan Group
Publication Year: 2003
GVC management needed a simple yet systematic method for determining whether they were on track to achieve their ambitious goals. This case describes the process of finding the appropriate performance measures and at the same time, enhancing the strategic clarity of the organization...
Carmike Cinemas, Inc.: Industry and Company Perspectives
Author: Taylor, Marilyn
Product Type: Cases
Source: NACRA, Case Research Journal / Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 1992
Four years after a leveraged buyout from Fuqua Industries, Carmike's venture capitalists are ready to cash out. Chief Executive Officer Mike Patrick considers whether to go public or take on additional debt to satisfy the investors.
Valuing the Cause Marketing Relationship
Authors: Gourville, John T.; Rangan, V. Kasturi
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review, v47, #1, Fall 2004.
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Publication Year: 2004
Cause marketing involves a "cause-linked" promotion of a commercial product, with some part of that product's revenues being donated to the nonprofit engaged in that cause...
Corporate Governance Issues at Satyam Computers
Authors: Gupta, V.; Indu, P
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
This case examines the corporate governance issues at the India-based IT services company, Satyam Computer Services Limited.
Citibank: The Confia Acquisition in Mexico (A)
Author: Grosse, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2000
This case follows the tortured path of Citibank's acquisition of the Mexican bank, Confia.
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...
Doing the Right Thing: Bank One's Response to the Mutual Fund Scandal
Author: Uber Grosse, C
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2004
This case investigates how Bank One responded to the mutual fund crisis of 2003-2004...
Echoing Green
Authors: Battilana, Julie; DeLong, Thomas J.; Weber, James
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
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This case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, faces in early 2009. Dorsey has to decide whether, and if so, how to change Echoing Green's strategy as well as whether she is the right person to continue to lead the organization.
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...
Andrea Jung
Authors: George, Bill; Mayer, Diana; McLean, Andrew N.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
In 2006, Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, is in the middle of a turnaround, having suspended earnings guidance and launched ambitious restructuring programs even as Avon receives a license to resume direct sales activities in China.
Advanced Micro Devices
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: 2001
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), one of the largest semiconductor companies in the US, found itself facing a shortage of available, skilled technicians in 1995. The dramatic growth of manufacturing jobs at its Austin site produced intense competition among the semiconductor corporations for a local, skilled workforce. Expensive out-of-town recruitment costs and high turnover rates prompted AMD to act...
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Authors: Collins, Jim; Porras, Jerry I.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Harper Paperbacks
Publication Year: 2002
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, the authors asked: "What makes the truly exceptional companies different from the comparison companies and what were the common practices these enduringly great companies followed throughout their history?"
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...
Creating Community Banking Solutions
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
Union Bank of California has partnered with Operation Hope and Nix Check Cashing to offer financial services to low-income communities...
Celebrex
Authors: Angelmar, Reinhard; Engsbye, Maiken
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2006
The case describes the development and US launch of Celebrex, the first Cox-2 inhibitor, which is co-promoted by Pfizer and Searle. The launch was phenomenally successful. However, four months after the launch Celebrex is facing three issues: (1) how to address the mix-ups between Celebrex and two other drugs with similar names; (2) how to respond to media reports about deaths and serious side effects associated with Celebrex, which was positioned on safety; and (3) how to prepare for the impending entry of Merck & Co's Vioxx.
Nestle's Nescafe Partners' Blend: The Fairtrade Decision (A, B)
Authors: Dawar, Niraj; Mitchell, Jordan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
In early 2005, Nestle is in the midst of a decision: whether or not the Fairtrade mark should be applied on Partners' Blend, a new instant coffee product to be marketed in the growing UK 'ethical' coffee segment.
Stereotype Threat and Feedback Seeking in the Workplace
Authors: Brief, Arthur P.; Roberson, Loriann; Deitch, Elizabeth A.; Block, Caryn J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 62, 2003
Publication Year: 2003
This study examined stereotype threat (Steele & Aronson, 1995) in workplace settings and investigated relationships of stereotype threat to feedback seeking and feedback acceptance...
Cementos Lima: Laying the Foundations of Social Responsibility
Authors: Portocarrero, F.; Sanborn, C.; Del Castillo, E.; Chavez, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
This case examines a company's strategy to improve community relations and community development initiatives as it seeks approval to expand industrial operations, which have negative environmental impacts upon these communities.
The Tzu Chi Foundation's China Relief Mission
Authors: Leonard, Herman B.; Chu, Yi Kwan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Rooted in the value of compassion, the organization has many unusual operating features -- including having no long term plan. This case explores the basic operating approach of the organization and invites students to explain the overall effectiveness and success of the organization and its surprising success in securing an operating license in China.
Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas
Author: Dobbs, Lou
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Business Plus
Publication Year: 2004
"How can our politicians call trade 'free' when year after year we sustain runaway trade deficits and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs?", asks Lou Dobbs.
You Can't Please All Of The People All Of The Time
Authors: Haghirian, P.; Toussaint, A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ECCH
Publication Year: 2009
In 2002, Wal-Mart acquired a stake in the struggling retail corporation Seiyu as a way to enter the notoriously difficult, and potentially lucrative, Japanese market. The company soon began to make changes, but the hoped for turnaround at Seiyu has been slow to materialise. Wal-Mart doubled-down on Seiyu, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2006. However, sales at Seiyu continue to decline, recently forcing Wal-Mart to abandon attempts to keep Seiyu's sales network in place and proceed with major store closures in a drastic cost-cutting measure. After several missteps and hastily rethought strategies, the retailing powerhouse that is Wal-Mart seems utterly out of its element in the land of the rising sun.
Reliance Fresh Stores in Food Retailing
Authors: Pradhan, D.; Mangaraj, B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: London Business School
Publication Year: 2008
The case describes the expansion plans for Reliance Fresh, the new retail initiative of the Reliance Industries Limited.
The Economics of Sustainability
Author: Sampson, Rachelle
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Maryland
Publication Year: 2008
The goal of this course is to better understand the issues of sustainability in a series of different contexts. These contexts include common property problems, such as natural resource depletion, energy, carbon emissions, the industrialization of food production and supply chain issues (e.g., sustainability and safety).
Methanex: Developing an Integrated Strategy
Authors: Egri, C; Papania, Lisa; Shapiro, Daniel
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
Methanex, the world's largest methanol producer, has grown impressively over the last decade, enabling the company to generously reward its shareholders. Methanex has set itself apart by following a cost leadership strategy as well as by being a champion of responsible care -- the chemical industry's standard in environmental and social responsibility. It is a code of practice relatively unknown outside of North America, especially in many of the developing countries where Methanex operates
Intellectual Property and the Availability of Pharmaceuticals in Poor Countries
Author: Lanjouw, Jean O.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Innovation Policy and the Economy. Vol 3, 2002.
Publication Year: 2002
There continues to be widespread criticism of the extension of patent rights on pharmaceuticals in the developing world as required by World Trade Organization membership. This paper examines arguments in favor and against this strengthening of worldwide patent protection...
Norway: Noah's Ark of Seed Samples Tucked into Arctic Mountainside
Author: Deshayes, Pierre-Henry
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: TerraDaily
Publication Year: 2007
Carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, a "doomsday vault" housing samples of the world's most important seeds is taking shape to provide mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe...
Planet Starbucks (A)
Authors: Moffett, M.; Ramaswamy, K.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2003
The case focuses on Starbucks Coffee in the early spring of 2003. Ultimately, the case is useful for debating whether a firm can be successful internationally employing a different strategy and structure than it employed in the construction of its already successful domestic business.
Online Auction Markets
Author: Yin, Pai-Ling
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source:
Publication Year: 2004
eBay, Yahoo!, and Amazon.com entered the online auction market within four years of one another, along with a host of smaller Web sites. Five years later, eBay clearly outstripped its competitors, despite the fact that Yahoo! and Amazon both had a huge installed base of users. Why?
BRAC
Author: Quelch, John A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
BRAC is the world's largest NGO and has over the past 20 years experienced tremendous rates of growth. The case looks at diversity within the organization and the aspects of management that have made the organization so successful...
After Katrina: Rebuilding Places and Lives, City & Community
Author: Briggs, Xavier de Sousa
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: City & Community, Volume 5, Issue 2. American Sociological Association
Publication Year: 2006
In this article, the author briefly outlines this context and develops two arguments about rebuilding: First, that debates about returning versus relocating families, including the poor, should be grounded in the realities of the city's housing and labor markets and reflect informed choices, not anecdotes, about the preferences of the displaced; and second, that we should not rely on simplistic images of "community lost" to understand what the displaced stand to lose or gain by either moving back or moving on...
None of Our Business?
Author: Fusaro, Roberto A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2004
Tracking technologies--in products and services like TiVo and electronic toll collection--make people's lives a lot more convenient. But the public is understandably concerned about the privacy issues such technologies raise...
Making the Most of Asset Disposal
Author: Strathmann, Joe
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: GreenerComputing
Publication Year: 2007
Environmentally responsible IT asset disposal -- now a top priority for millions of businesses and consumers worldwide -- hadn't fully emerged as the global calling we've come to know...
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