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Second Life: Mercedes-Benz Enters the Metaverse
Authors: Enders, A.; Blarr, H.; Hungenberg, H.; Jelassi, Tawfik
Product Type: Cases
Source: HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, University of Nuremburg and ENPC, Paris
Publication Year: 2008
Initiated by a BusinessWeek headline in May 2006, a world-embracing hype about 'Second Life' has spurred many people and companies to enter Linden Lab's virtual world.
Posada Amazonas
Authors: Revilla, Jesus; Perez, Felipe
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN)
Publication Year: 2003
Describes the story of Posada Amazonas, a tourist lodge in the Peruvian jungle, which resulted from a collaboration agreement between the native community Eseja de Infierno and the tourism firm Rainforest Expeditions (RFE)...
Teaching Module on Low Wage Work - Teaching Questions and Additional References
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
The teaching questions and additional references for the Low Wage Work Teaching Module.
Tembec Inc. (A, B)
Authors: Bansal, Pratima; Ewart, Tom
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
On November 29, 1998, Frank Dottori, president and chief executive officer of Tembec Inc. was trying to pull together a response to the recommendations by the Ontario government for the Lands for Life program. He was worried about the recommendation to increase protected areas, which he thought would further polarize the industry's stakeholders and financially threaten his company...
UVA Proxy Advisory Committee: South African Proxy Issues
Authors: Woodward, Susan; Paine, Lynn S.; Tulloch, Henry W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 1991
The Proxy Advisory Committee of the University of Virginia must recommend to the Finance Committee of the University's Board of Visitors how it should respond to a shareholder resolution requesting Perkin-Elmer to terminate its operations in South Africa...
Accounting for Marketable Securities and the "Recycling" of Income
Author: Miller, Gregory S.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Gives an overview of accounting for equity investments less than 20%. Uses this accounting to introduce the issue of amounts included in the statement of comprehensive income during a different time period from its inclusion in net income (sometimes called “recycled earnings”).
Mining and Metals: Shareholder Activism and Other Levers for Change
Authors: Shattuck, Rachel; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
The mining and minerals industry has introduced a number of changes. Both pressures that are internal to the industry as well as pressures from outside the industry have generated these changes.
Great Lakes: Great Decisions (A)
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
One of the few remaining producers of lead additives must decide whether to continue producing them for use abroad.
Borden v. Kraft Inc. (A): A Competitive Advertising Challenge
Authors: Kopp, Robert J.; Petty, Ross D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 1995
Borden and Kraft are leaders in the US cheese market and their competitive battle has spilled over into the courts. Borden has challenged Kraft's advertising, under the Lanham Act, as being deceptive and is asking the judge to grant a "preliminary injunction"...
Customers' Revenge
Authors: Ariely, Dan; Farmer, Tom; Bennett, Nate; Martin, Chris; Fein, Nancy; Libai, Barak
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2007
Venerable Detroit automaker Atida Motors has a new call center in Bangalore that the company hopes will raise its reputation for customer service. But it doesn't appear to be doing so yet.
Simplifying the Principles of Stakeholder Management: The Three Most Important Principles
Author: Szwajkowski, Eugene
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business & Society. Vol. 39, Issue 4.
Publication Year: 2000
This article discusses the most important principles from the "Principles of Stakeholder Management," by the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics.
Chronos
Author:
Product Type: Exercises; Web Sites
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development and University of Cambridge Programme for Industry 2003-2004
Publication Year: 2003
Chronos is an exciting new e-learning tutorial on the business case for sustainable development...
Troubled Times for the Chinese Toy Industry
Authors: George, S; Chakraborty, B; Govind, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2008
The case discusses the development of the Chinese toy industry over the years as well as the problems facing the toy industry in China today.
A Productive Partnership: The Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club and the Kauai Food Bank
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: 2002
The Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club creatively solves a sourcing problem in a way that supports local community economic development.
A Model of Clean Energy Entrepreneurship in Africa: E+Co's Path to Scale
Authors: Branzei, Oana; McKague, Kevin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
The founder and executive director of E+Co faces the challenge of ten-fold growth and reviews the core parts of the company's innovative business model, the changes in the energy markets around the world, and the rationale for local solutions to energy scarcity and inefficiency.
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy - Can Wage Laws Benefit All?
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Those interested in promoting higher wages for low-wage workers also look to government policies to provide support, including minimum and living wage laws and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Minimum wage laws, while no longer controversial in the U.S., may still become an issue when not applied to sub-classes of workers (illegal immigrants, youth, or some service workers).
The Strategic Use of Decentralized Institutions: Exploring Certifications with the ISO 14001 Management Standard
Authors: King, Andrew; Lenox, Michael; Terlaak, Ann
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Journal
Publication Year: 2007
In this article we respond to calls by previous researchers to clarify the function of decentralized institutions by analyzing the strategic motives of individual actors...
Chicken and Egg: A Study of the Poultry Genetics Industry
Author: O'Leary, Patrick
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Ullman International was facing many challenges: the president's imminent retirement, the threat of the Asian bird flu, zero or negative growth in primary markets, increasing pressure from the animal rights movement and a strained relationship with Ullman's German parent company.
Sustainable Tourism & the Cruise Line Industry
Authors: Bailey, Kalena Samon; Mansour, Saf El; Silue, Rene; Singleton, Denna
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2004
The tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, generating revenue and creating jobs in many countries. The impacts of tourism on a location are not only positive, however.
illycaffè: Value Creation through Responsible Supplier Relationships
Authors: Perrini, Francesco; Russo, Angeloantonio
Product Type: Cases
Source: European Academy of Business in Society
Publication Year: 2007
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is gaining momentum in the business world, but several issues still challenge managers in charge of sustainability.
3M ESPE AG: Managing Intellectual Property in the Dental Impression Materials Market
Authors: Conley, James G.; Wong, Richard; Fields, James; Deutsch, Susan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
This case explores the choices made by a German manufacturer in the face of patent infringements.
FAG Kugelfischer
Author: Gilson, Stuart C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2004
This case uses the example of a German ball bearing manufacturer to discuss options for restructuring a troubled firm in Germany, where significant constraints exist on companies' ability to lay off employees, and also to compare the relative merits of “shareholder capitalism” (as practiced in the United States) and “stakeholder capitalism” (as practiced in Europe).
The PCAOB (A, B)
Authors: Paine, Lynn S.; Bettcher, Kim Eric
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Members of the Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board--a private-sector, nonprofit body created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002--must determine the form and content of a new auditing standard on internal control that will fulfill the requirements of Section 404 of the act...
An Inventory of Support Materials for Teaching Ethics in the Post-Enron Era
Author: Thomas, C. William
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: American Accounting Association Issues in Accounting Education, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 27-52
Publication Year: 2004
This paper presents a "Post-Enron" annotated bibliography of resources for accounting professors who wish to either design a stand-alone course in accounting ethics or who wish to integrate a significant component of ethics into traditional courses across the curriculum...
Visioning at Xerox Canada
Authors: Crossan, Mary M.; Bontis, Nick
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2003
This case describes the visioning process at Xerox Canada. The chairman, CEO and president of Xerox Canada has been meeting with her leadership team since eight o'clock in the morning to craft the organization's new vision statement...
The Housing Development Finance Corporation
Author: Budhiraja, Sudeep
Product Type: Cases
Source: London Business School
Publication Year: 1999
The largest provider of housing finance in India, HDFC is one of the most admired companies in the country. Beyond outstanding business performance, the company has also made an important contribution to Indian society, thereby, demonstrating that a wholesome business, meeting an important social need, can also be extremely profitable...
Medmira Laboratories: The US OTC Decision
Authors: Sagebien, Julia; Whellams, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
This case explores the decision to pursue at-home HIV testing, which would require the development of new marketing and distribution expertise, as well as attention to new ethical issues, while offering synergies with the company's technology.
Banana Karenina
Author: Dana, Leo P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: McGill University
Publication Year: 1998
Ben and Jerry's Homemade Inc., founded in Vermont in 1978, is a corporation that makes frozen yogurt and ice cream in unique as well as traditional flavors. Factors that make this company stand out, and at least on an ethical level, very suitable for exploitation in the Russian market is its environmental awareness...
Motorola (A, B)
Authors: Weiss, Stephanie; Kelemen, Matt; Meyer, Kathleen A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Business Enterprise Trust
Publication Year: 1996
In the late 1970s, Motorola CEO Bob Galvin knew that the electronics industry was growing increasingly competitive. Though Motorola was faring well in the battle, technology was sprinting ahead...
CSU-CCA Group
Authors: Prado, Andrea; Leguizamon, Francisco
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
This case deals with the concept of how to orchestrate a consistent corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy consolidating many diverse social initiatives started within a business group.
Newman's Own, Inc.
Author: Austin, James E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1998
This case describes the creation and evolution of this food marketing corporation.
As if the Future Mattered: Translating Social and Economic Theory into Human Behavior
Author: Goodwin, Neva
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University.
Published by University of Michigan Press
Publication Year: 1996
There has never been a better time to explore the ways in which values relating to the future can be preserved and nurtured despite contemporary capitalism's tendency toward shortsighted selfishness...
Phyto-Riker Pharmaceuticals
Authors: McMillan, John; Dosunmu, Ade
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2003
This case gives students the opportunity to explore decision making when operating in third-world environments where uncertainty can be prevalent. Students can also wrestle with the economics and regulation of the pharmaceuticals industry and the ethics of drug pricing.
Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (A, B)
Author: Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1999
After the Brent Spar episode and the 1995 events in Nigeria, Shell undertakes an intensive review of its values and business principles. At the same time, it conducts the largest multi-stakeholder consultation in its history in an effort to better understand society's evolving expectations for companies like Shell...
Wal-Mart's Foray in Brazil
Authors: Gupta, V.; Chatterjee, P.; Indu, P
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
US based Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, entered Brazil in 1995 by forming a 60:40 joint venture with one of the country's leading business conglomerates, Grupo Garantia. After entering Brazil, Wal-Mart encountered several operational problems during the initial years, due to which its expansion plans went awry.
Deja Shoe (A, B)
Authors: Hardy, Paul W.; Hart, Stuart L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: William Davidson Institute
Publication Year: 1996
Deja Shoe's founder and new management team wanted to develop a business strategy based on pro-environment principles that would enable the firm to out-compete established industry players Nike and Timberland. The case explores mainstream and niche markets...
Beyond Off-shoring: Assessing Your Company's Global Potential
Author: Farrell, Diana
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2004
Companies have become aware that they can slash costs by offshoring: moving jobs to lower wage locations. However, few businesses have recognized the full scope of performance improvements that globalization makes possible, much less developed sound strategies for capturing those opportunities...
Springboard to a Swan Dive?
Authors: Kambil, Ajit; Beebe, Bruce
Product Type: Cases; Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2005
John Clough, the CFO of NetRF, a tech firm in Salt Lake City, gets an offer he's not sure he wants to refuse. Benchmark, a Fortune 500 packaged goods company, is looking for someone to join its audit committee...
The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company
Authors: Economy, Peter; Beyster, J. Robert
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wiley
Publication Year: 2007
Dr. Beyster tells the story of SAIC, and offers valuable lessons to entrepreneurs and managers on how to build a company in which loyalty to values goes hand in hand with success.
WSU Vancouver MBA Program: Stakeholder-Focused Leadership for Sustained Business Success
Author: WSU Vancouver Faculty
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Washington State University, Vancouver
Publication Year: 2006
WSU Vancouver's Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program is built around a stakeholder focus and its implications for competitive advantage and long term organizational performance (enlightened shareholder management)...
Semco "A"
Author: Chaddad, Fernando
Product Type: Cases
Source: The University of Western Australia
Publication Year: 2001
This is the first of a two-case series (300-153-1 and 300-154-1). The cases serve as a good introduction to any Strategic Management course and they essentially put forward contrasting reasons for the success of Semco.
TransFair USA
Authors: Aubry, Rick; Powell, Greg
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2004
TransFair USA, the U.S. fair trade labeling arm of the Fair Trade Labeling Organization (FLO), faced strategic challenges in 2003. The Fair Trade label denoted coffee (and other products) sold at a price high enough to allow small certified farmers to earn a living wage...
Strategy's strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt
Authors: Lovallo, Dan P.; Mendonca, Lenny T.
Product Type: Journal Articles; Interviews
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
A giant in the field of strategy ruminates on strategic planning, diversification and focus, and the role of the CEO...
Procter and Gamble's PuR Water Purifier – The Hunt for a Sustainable Business Model
Authors: Jones Christensen, Lisa; Thomas, Jessica
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2008
This case presents the range of business models that P&G has explored for the sales and distribution of PuR water purification packets.
The Emerging Era of Customer Advocacy
Author: Urban, Glen L.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter, 2004
Publication Year: 2004
For decades, companies relied on push marketing to sell their products and services. Then, in the 1990s, the emphasis shifted to relationship marketing, as slogans such as "delight your customers" became the mantra of many marketers. But those tactics have been losing their effectiveness, particularly as the power of customers continues to grow...
Shareholders Should Not Always Come First
Author: Stout, Lynn A.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Financial Times
Publication Year: 2005
This article disputes the shareholder primacy view, arguing that directors have discretion, provided for in the law, to consider the interest of other stakeholders as well as benefits to long term versus short term investors.
The Starbury One Social Movement
Authors: Morosini, P; Coughlan, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Publication Year: 2006
The sports shoe market in the United States had long been dominated by big sportswear brands, such as Nike and Reebok. This case is about the mission of Starbury footwear -- "to eliminate the incredible pressure kids and parents feel to spend top dollar on the latest sneakers, clothes and other merchandise that they often cannot afford".
Share Value: How Employee Ownership Is Changing the Face of Business
Author: Knell, John
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The All Party Parliamentary Group on Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
A wide array of co-owned companies, operating in competitive markets in the public and private sectors, are delivering exemplary performance through the use of the co-owned model.
Genzyme's CSR Dilemma: How to Play its HAND
Authors: Bartlett, Christopher A.; Khanna, Tarun; Choudhury, Prithwiraj
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
Genzyme, a global biotechnology company, launches a program to develop therapies for neglected diseases, (e.g. malaria, TB), giving away the intellectual property. This case focuses on the decision of which diseases, which partnerships, and which markets should management decide to fund.
Sustainable Global Enterprise
Author: Hart, Stuart L.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source:
Publication Year: 2005
Environmental and social issues have been treated historically as peripheral concerns to business. “Social responsibility” and “environmental management” have been framed as added costs driven primarily by guilt or regulation. At best, companies have felt compelled to “give back” to society in the form of philanthropy or other good deeds directed at the natural environment or the community...
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