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When All Else Fails
Author: Mathews, Anne Wilde
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wall Street Journal
Publication Year: 2009
Last year, AmeriGas Propane Inc. gave its employees an ultimatum: get their medical checkups, or lose their health insurance.
Leading Corporate Citizens: Vision, Values, Value Added
Author: Waddock, Sandra
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 2nd edition
Publication Year: 2005
Waddock's Leading Corporate Citizens is designed for the instructor interested in cutting-edge thinking and research in the 21st century. This innovative text incorporates important new features of the modern business landscape yet to be brought into Business and Society texts...
Modern Manors
Author: Jacoby, Sanford M.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 1998
In Modern Manors, author Sanford M. Jacoby takes on an interesting and little-discussed subject: the corporation as the core social welfare system in modern times.
Centering on…The Cost of Care
Author: O'Neil, Ed
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: The Center for the Health Professions, University of California, San Francisco.
Publication Year:
The rising cost of health care has become the elephant in the room in which all health care discussions take place. While the health care establishment worries about the quality and safety of care, the numbers of professionals to provide service, the availability of faculty, dwindling research dollars, and compensation for professionals, those who consume and purchase care struggle to figure out how to pay for the costly system that we have built...
Rx Depot
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Day, Adam
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
In 2002, a handful of entrepreneurs began to ship drugs from Canada into the United States, taking advantage of regulatory and price differentials across the neighboring countries. Using the Internet and a low-cost network of Canadian pharmacies, firms like Rx Depot allowed U.S. customers to order their prescription medications in the United States, purchase them at a substantial discount from prevailing U.S. prices, and deliver the medications directly to their homes...
State of the World 2005: Global Security
Author: The Worldwatch Institute
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Year: 2005
Emphasizing the opportunities for creating a less vulnerable, more secure world, State of the World 2005 addresses a broad range of needed reforms, including those related to governance, economics, ethics, and education.
The State of Corporate Citizenship in the U.S.: Business Perspectives in 2005
Authors: Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College; U.S. Chamber of Commerce; The Hitachi Foundation
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Corporate Citizenship. Produced in Coperation with the Hitachi Foundation. 2005.
Publication Year: 2005
This report presents a complete picture of what American business is doing in the name of corporate citizenship, and the attitudes of business leaders toward the business role in society.
deCODE Genetics
Authors: Spar, Debora; Bebenek, Chris
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Based in Iceland, deCODE Genetics plans to identify the individual genetic markers that lead to society's most prevalent diseases. But when patient advocate groups form to oppose the plan, deCODE is forced to change its strategy. Examines business models based on employing individuals' medical data and to probe the political and ethical questions that such models raise.
Social Comparisons in Boundary-Spanning Work
Author: Bartel, Caroline A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Administrative Science Quarterly
Publication Year: 2001
This research investigated how experiences in a particular boundary-spanning context (community outreach) affected members' organizational identity and identification.
Aravind Eye Care System
Authors: Janeiro Dias, Ana; Monteiro Viassa, Eugenio
Product Type: Cases
Source: AESE - Escola de Direccao e Negocios
Publication Year: 2005
This is the story of an ophthalmology surgeon, who, after having obtained a specialisation in obstetrics, was struck down by rheumatoid arthritis in his thirties. After having to remain in bed for more than a year, he decided after his illness, which had caused deformities in his hands and fingers, to give up his speciality and start training in another medical specialisation, ophthalmology surgery.
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