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Sustainable Business Practices
Author: Klassen, Robert
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
In a nutshell, sustainable development focuses on the inter-relationships between financial, social and environmental performance. Many companies are now actively seeking to pull these together under a competitive strategy that captures the “triple bottom line.” There is the very real potential for competitive advantage to be increasingly rooted in such new capabilities as pollution prevention, design for environment, social responsiveness, and stakeholder negotiation. These capabilities draw on a number of functional areas, including marketing, human resources, operations, and finance, to list several. Thus, this course emphasizes a general management viewpoint, where you as managers must confront difficult challenges, scientific uncertainty, and new opportunities.
L. S. Starrett Company
Authors: Bruner, Robert F.; Hennessy, Peter R.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: University of Virginia - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Publication Year: 2008
Should Wachovia Bank and Trust lend the ESOP of Starrett the money to purchase shares? The required tasks involve a standard credit analysis and the valuation of Starrett's shares.
MTN Group Limited
Author: Baron, David P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
In May 2008, MTN entered into exclusive discussions with Reliance Communications Ltd., the second largest wireless company in India, regarding possible business combinations including a merger. This case explores various issues influencing MTN's analysis, with a focus on non-market factors including taxation, government regulation, and political barriers to financing.
Podcast: Making Money While Going Green
Author: Hirshberg, Gary
Product Type: Multimedia; Speeches
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Stonyfield Farm CE-Yo and author Gary Hirshberg shares lessons from his book Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World.
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering
Authors: Kim, Bowon; Upton, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
Explores the journey of aggressive learning and capability building in the operations of a major Korean Shipbuilder.
Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (A, B, C)
Authors: Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Bird, Matthew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
A.G. Lafley and P&G leaders decided to approach the Gillette integration differently from previous mergers. Using P&G's purpose, values, and principles (PVP) it treated the acquisition as a merger which sought to take the "best of both" from each company.
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.
The Electric Car: The Major Players
Authors: Burgelman, Robert A.; Grove, Andrew S.; Schifrin, Debra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The case covers and analyzes the major players in the electric car industry, including start-up and established automakers, battery makers, retrofitters, utility companies and the government.
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...
Podcast: Business Solutions to Climate Change
Author: Lovins, Amory
Product Type: Multimedia; Speeches
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Amory Lovins, one of America's most influential energy speakers, offers profitable business-led solutions to climate, oil, and nuclear proliferation problems and suggests strategies to reduce U.S. oil dependence.
Seeking Sustainability: COSA Preliminary Analysis of Sustainability Initiatives in the Coffee Sector
Authors: Giovannucci, Daniele; Potts, Jason
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: International Institute for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2008
This paper examines the pilot phase of vetting and testing The Committee on Sustainable Assessment's method, an innovative management tool used to gather and analyze data using economic, environmental and social metrics.
Cultivating the Green Consumer
Authors: Bonini, Sheila; Oppenheim, Jeremy
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2008
Consumers say they want to buy ecologically friendly products and reduce their impact on the environment. But when they get to the cash register, their Earth-minded sentiments die on the vine. Although individual quirks underlie some of this hypocrisy, businesses can do a lot more to help would-be green consumers turn their talk into walk.
Money to Grow On
Author: Foster, William
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2008
In the for-profit world, the term "investment" has clear meaning and investors have sophisticated techniques for spotting and growing the most promising companies. Yet foundations and other nonprofit donors have not developed similar clarity or approaches. As a result, the nonprofit sector's greatest gems often languish well below their full potential. By better translating for-profit concepts, donors can learn how to scout out and grow the best nonprofits. Likewise, certain nonprofits can take a page from business's playbook and learn how to attract cash for expansion.
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.
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).
Introduction to Sustainable Business Practices
Author: Arnould, Eric J.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Wyoming
Publication Year: 2008
This course takes a close look at what is happening in business practice today through the 'lens' of sustainability. Business models and systems will be discussed and a framework proposed for assessing the ways in which principles of sustainability may be embedded within corporate strategy.
Topics In Business Strategy
Author: Skov, Joshua
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: UC San Diego
Publication Year: 2008
Human-caused climate change presents a series of major challenges to human economies and societies. Increasingly, policy solutions and stakeholder pressures will, via direct financial incentives and indirect business pressures, trace this problem to its causes in emissions-generating activities.
The Green Conversation
Author: Harvard Business Review
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2008
For three months this spring, HBR Green hosted a six-part series of online commentary and discussion exploring best practices and new thinking in green business strategy.
Rural Credit Cooperatives in India
Authors: Li, Wei; Parmar, Bidhan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Recently, the Indian Congress asked a distinguished committee of experts to analyze and make policy recommendations about India's Co-operative Financial Institutions.
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.
Green Fields Investments: Evaluating Biofuels Investment Options
Authors: Kiesling, Lynne; Hunnewell, Jeremy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2008
Green Fields Investments is a socially responsible investment firm. The student is faced with the management decision of whether or not to invest in a new ethanol plant being built.
Responsible Lobbying?
Author: Baron, David P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
In 2006 Merck received FDA approval for Gardasil, the first vaccine for human papilloma virus (HPV) which had been identified as the cause of cervical cancer. Prior to FDA approval, Merck began to develop a market for Gardasil and launched an intensive campaign to get states to make HPV vaccination of girls entering middle school mandatory.
Efficiency
Author: Joint Economic Committee
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Speeches
Source: Joint Economic Committee
Publication Year: 2008
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) held a hearing to examine how energy efficiency programs can drastically reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy, help us achieve energy independence, and strengthen our economy.
Sustainability at Millipore
Authors: Toffel, Michael W.; Lee, Katharine
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company.
Meridco Magnesium
Authors: Cole, Ken; Bansal, Pratima
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Meridco Magnesium is an international automotive parts supplier of magnesium die-cast components with manufacturing plants in Canada, the United States and France. The company has a strong market position in North America; however, two out of the three plants are not performing well...
Butterflies of Costa Rica
Author: Ickis, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network
Publication Year: 2008
In July 2007 Joris Brinckerhoff, founder and owner of Costa Rica Entomological Supplies (CRES), must decide whether to accept an offer from RBA, a publications firm in Barcelona, Spain, to sell mounted butterflies or "deadstock" as part of RBA's "collectibles" program for schoolchildren.
Threadless: The Business of Community
Authors: Lakhani, Karim R.; Kanji, Zahra
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Harvard Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
Threadless.com, the online, Chicago-based t-shirt company, was not your typical fashion apparel company. Threadless' success had garnered significant media attention, the New York Times and USA's National Public Radio highlighting its unique community-based business model, and had piqued the interest of large traditional retailers.
GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project
Authors: Bartlett, Christopher A.; Hall, Brian J.; Bennett, Nicole
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
This case follows GE Transportation as it launches a series of groundbreaking, green products--from the Evolution Locomotive to the Hybrid Locomotive. It discusses growth strategy, the implementation of innovation, and environmentally-focused projects driven from the corporate level down to individual business units.
Health Care Reform Proposals Should Promote More Provider Competition
Author: Enthoven, Alain
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Employee Benefit Advisor
Publication Year: 2008
The author argues for health care reform by opening the U.S. health insurance market to competition.
Business Basics at the Base of the Pyramid
Author: Akula, Vikram
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2008
A decade after founding SKS Microfinance, CEO Akula explains how to make money at the bottom tier of the economic pyramid while raising the living standards of the people who occupy it. His company, which provides many small-business loans and other financial services to poor women in India, has a customer base that has been nearly tripling each year and now numbers more than 2 million.
Shell and the Klappan: Coalbed Methane Controversy
Author: von der Porten, Suzanne
Product Type: Cases
Source: Selkirk College
Publication Year: 2008
Since Shell Canada was awarded tenure in 2003 by the British Columbia provincial government to drill exploratory coal-bed methane (CBM) wells in the Klappan region of Northwestern B.C., significant opposition to the potential project has erupted.
GlobalGiving: the Challenges of Accessing Capacity Building Capital for a Non-Profit Organization
Author: Janiga, Kelly
Product Type: Cases
Source: The William Davidson Institute
Publication Year: 2008
GlobalGiving is a nonprofit organization that leverages the power of the internet to create an online marketplace that connects donors to grassroots development projects across the globe.
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.
The PEPPER IV Report
Authors: Lowitzsch, Jens; Hashi, Iraj; Woodward, Richard
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Inter-University Centre Split/Berlin, Institute for Eastern European Studies, Free University of Berlin
Publication Year: 2008
The PEPPER IV Report presents conclusive evidence, regardless of data source, that the past decade has seen a significant expansion of employee financial participation in Europe.
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.
Phil Chan (A, B)
Authors: Beamish, Paul W.; Schaan, Jean-Louis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The case deals with a scam that has been run out of Nigeria since 1990. In it, foreign companies are approached for their assistance in facilitating an international transfer of funds in order to receive a very large but unearned commission...
Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant: Motivating in Good Times and Bad
Authors: Beer, Michael; Collins, Elizabeth
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Publishing Brief Cases
Publication Year: 2008
In May 2007, the Engstrom Auto Mirrors plant, a relatively small supplier based in Indiana, faces a crisis. Sales had started to decline in 2005; a year later, plant manager Ron Bent had been forced to lay off more than 20 percent of the work force...
Fighting the Flu: Tamiflu Stockpiling: A Pandemic Preparedness Policy
Authors: Samii, Ramina; Van Wassenhove, Luk
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2008
The case narrates the trigger points that encouraged Roche to increase, by 15-fold, the production capacity of Tamiflu - the antiviral pandemic flu drug recommended by the World Health Organization - since 2004.
Open Source: Salvation or Suicide?
Authors: Wilson, Scott; Kambil, Ajit; Schwartz, Jonathan; Levin, Eric; Pisano, Gary P. ; Bevilacqua, Michael J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2008
Amp Up, a wildly popular electronic-music game, is the brainchild of KMS's cherished programmers, who now spend their time trying to keep customers dazzled with upgrades. But a couple of start-ups have ripped off the idea using their own code - which is open source. Now they're demanding that KMS float with the rising tide and join the open-source community. How could the company make money without its IP? And why should it try?
The Energy Foundation
Authors: Wei-Skillern, Jane; Wagonfeld, Alison Berkley
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
The case helps to illustrate how a philanthropic funder network can operate and examine the strategic challenges it faces as it seeks to achieve large-scale impact.
BHP Billiton and Mozal (A, B)
Authors: Hartman, Laura; Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resource company at the start of the 21st century, began a feasibility study in 1995 for building an aluminum smelter project in the Maputo province in southern Mozambique--one of the world’s poorest countries that was hampered by fragile legal, financial, and health, safety, environmental, and community institutional structures and capacity.
Procter & Gamble: Children's Safe Drinking Water (A, B)
Authors: Hartman, Laura; Mead, Jenny; Sheehan, Justin
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
With a long history of scientific research and innovation in health, hygiene, and nutrition, P&G considered ways it could address the safe drinking-water crisis as the new millennium approached.
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.
Ujjivan: A Microfinance Institution at a Crossroads (A, B)
Authors: Narayanan, V.G.; Freed, Pamela
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Samit Ghosh, the CEO and founder of Ujjivan, wants to grow his business rapidly and become financially sustainable, but he's struggling with staff fraud, high costs, and how to stay true to Ujjivan's mission of poverty alleviation, while simultaneously reaching out to higher-income customers.
Giving Tree International: ESL Training in Vietnam
Authors: Branch, John; Lee, Moses
Product Type: Cases
Source: The William Davidson Institute
Publication Year: 2008
Giving Tree International is a registered 501 3(c) organization founded in 2006 by six friends in Los Angeles, California, who had the desire to use their professional expertise to start small-to-medium sized businesses that addressed a social end in emerging economies.
Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG
Authors: Villalonga, Belen; Beyersdorfer, Daniela; Dessain, Vincent
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Spiegel's unique ownership structure and corporate governance, and its impact on a concrete business decision, highlights the benefits and costs of employee ownership in a family firm, and the tools available for aligning the interests of family and employee shareholders.
One Goal, One Number
Author: Reichheld, Fred
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Harvard Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
Too many managers have come to believe that increasing shareholder value requires exploiting customer relationships. This chapter discusses why this approach is no longer acceptable and suggests that a trustworthy customer feedback process is necessary to allow free markets to reward organizations that practice Golden Rule behavior and punish those that don't.
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.
Market and Cost Analysis of Switchgrass in Northwestern Pennsylvania
Authors: Onyeiwu, Stephen Z.; Greely, Kathy; Mourer, Ben; Villa, Mateo
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Allegheny College, West Penn Alternative Energy Fund
Publication Year: 2008
A survey of nearly 50 enterprises and organizations in the region concludes that there is a sizable market for biomass in NWPA. While a relatively thriving biomass market in wood pellets and stoves already exists in the residential sector, none of the businesses interviewed uses biomass, and most have not heard of switchgrass as an alternative source of energy.
Employee Financial Participation: An International Survey
Author: Binns, David M.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: George Mason University John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy
Publication Year: 2008
Employee Financial Participation: An International Survey provides an overview of key international trends in employee ownership, pension reform, equity compensation, privatization, and employee financial participation in over 30 countries.
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