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The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
Author: Friedman, Milton
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Speeches
Source: The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.
Publication Year: 1970
"When I hear businessmen speak eloquently about the "social responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise system," it's obvious that they believe that they are defending free enterprise
Doing Better at Doing Good: When, Why and How Consumers Respond to Corporate Social Initiatives
Authors: Bhattacharya, C.B.; Sen, Sankar
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2004
Although companies are devoting significant resources to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, insights into the optimal formulation, implementation, and effectiveness estimation of CSR strategies are currently scarce. This article takes an in-depth look at when, why, and how CSR works from a consumer's perspective...
Productivity of Growing Global Energy Demand
Author: McKinsey Global Institute, The
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The McKinsey Global Institute
Publication Year: 2006
To date, the global debate about energy has focused too narrowly on curbing demand. Instead, the best way to meet the challenge of growing global energy demand may be to focus on energy productivity, which reconciles both demand abatement and energy-efficiency.
Everyday High Health Costs; One Giant's Struggle Is Corporate America's, Too
Author: Abelson, Reed
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
Back in the spring, amid relentless criticism that Wal-Mart Stores was failing to provide affordable health care to employees, executives at the company decided to take a detailed look at its benefits. Wal-Mart knew its health costs were spiraling upward out of control, said M. Susan Chambers, the senior executive who led the initiative, but it was surprised to discover that its critics had a point...
The End of Corporate Imperialism
Authors: Prahalad, C.K.; Lieberthal, Kenneth
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2003
As they search for growth, multinational corporations will have no choice but to compete in the big emerging markets of China, India, Indonesia, and Brazil. Although it is still common to question how such corporations will change life in those markets, Western executives would be smart to turn the question around and ask how multinationals themselves will be transformed by these markets...
Tiffany & Co: A Case Study in Diamonds and Social Responsibility
Author: Zalcman, Miriam
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge @ Wharton
Publication Year: 2004
Michael J. Kowalski, chairman and CEO of Tiffany & Co., the world-famous luxury jeweler and specialty retailer, wasted no time correcting what he called a "misperception" about his company's products...
What Are Mergers Good For?
Author: Morgenson, Gretchen
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
To most investors, mergers are the stock market's equivalent of catnip. Takeover bids typically provide a nice boost to investors' portfolios and confirm their stock-picking smarts. And to hear the executives orchestrating them tell it, they always produce greater profits at the combined company down the road...And yet, for all the profit and promise that mergers seem to hold, the truth about companies combining their operations is a darker one. Academic research suggests that few mergers add up to significantly more prosperous or successful companies...
A Road Map for Natural Capitalism
Authors: Lovins, Amory B.; Lovins, L. Hunter; Hawken, Paul
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 1999
No one would run a business without accounting for its capital outlays. Yet most companies overlook one major capital component--the value of the earth's ecosystem services...
Aguas del Tunari in Bolivia: The Water War
Author: von der Porten, Suzanne
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
In February and April of 2000, tens of thousands of citizen protesters seized the streets of their home city Cochabamba, Bolivia to protest the privatization of their water and sewer system by Aguas del Tunari, a subsidiary of US-based Bechtel Corporation...
Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause
Authors: Kotler, Phillip; Lee, Nancy
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: John Wiley & Sons
Publication Year: 2004
Today, corporations are expected to give something back to their communities in the form of charitable projects. In Corporate Social Responsibility, the authors explain why charity is both good P.R. and good for business.
Does Doing Good Always Lead to Doing Better?
Authors: Sen, Sankar; Bhattacharya, C.B.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Marketing Research, American Marketing Association, v38, 2.
Publication Year: 2001
In the face of marketplace polls that attest to the increasing influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on consumers' purchase behavior, this article examines when, how, and for whom specific CSR initiatives work.
For Business Ethics
Authors: Jones, Campbell; Parker, Martin; Ten Bos, Rene
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Routledge
Publication Year: 2005
For Business Ethics is a daring adventure into the world of business ethics. It offers a clear and accessible introduction to business ethics and also expands business ethics beyond its current narrow confines...
The Greensboro Housing Authority (A)
Authors: Brown, Lew G.; Carlin, Diane; Craig, Margaret; Kawashima, William
Product Type: Cases
Source: NACRA Case Research Journal / The Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 2004
The Greensboro, North Carolina Housing Authority (GHA) faced an angry population when it proposed to locate a new public housing community in a middle class neighborhood...
The Value of Corporate Values
Authors: Van Lee, Reggie; Fabrish, Lisa; McGaw, Nancy
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program; Booz Allen Hamilton
Publication Year: 2005
An Aspen Institute / Booz Allen Hamilton global survey of corporate behavior finds that leading companies are crafting a purpose drive identity...
DVD: Architecture to Zucchini
Author:
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Arnold Creek Productions
Publication Year: 2005
Architecture to Zucchini, a DVD, is an exploration of socially responsible businesses and the passionate leaders who drive them. These are the pioneers who have put the principles of sustainability to work. It features insights from leaders of nationally recognized organizations that serve industry, education, communities and government. Through interviews and tours, these pioneers reveal the impact of merging economic, social and environmental considerations in their business plans and operations. They share everything from lessons learned to the challenges they've faced – even the unexpected opportunities for strategic alliances, within and outside their industries.
Sexual Harassment, Free Speech or…?
Authors: Strimling, Andrea L.; Paine, Lynn S.; White, Wilda L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1994
Presents two brief vignettes about female employees who object to gender discrimination in their work environment. In one case, the manager of a convenience store removes "adult" magazines from the store's shelves because she sees them as damaging to women. In the other, a group of female employees of the Stroh Brewery Co. charge that the company's advertising creates an overall atmosphere of hostility to women...
Blue Ocean Strategy
Authors: Kim, W. Chan; Mauborgne, Renée
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Year: 2005
Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any company can use to create and capture blue oceans. A landmark work that upends traditional thinking about strategy, this book charts a bold new path to winning the future...
Car-Free, Solar City in Gulf Could Set a New Standard for Green Design
Author: Revkin, Andrew C.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2008
In an ever more crowded world facing environmental limits, the push is on to create entire communities with reduced needs for energy, water, land and other resources.
Malaysia in the 1990's
Author: Reinhardt, Forest
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1997
Focuses on Prime Minister Mahathir as the principal architect of Malaysia's economic and social policy. Designed to introduce a semester-length course on Business, Government, and the International Economy...
Put Your Values to Work
Authors: McGaw, Nancy; Fabish, Lisa
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2006
What does it take to nurture corporate values, embed values in everyday decisions, and reap the benefits...
The Challenge for Multinational Corporations in China: Think Local, Act Global
Authors: Park, Seung; Vanhonacker, Wilfried
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
To succeed in China, multinational corporations must turn the aphorism "think global, but act local" on its head. Although they have to master the art of local operation, their behavior must match their global standards, as expected by the Chinese...
The CDC and the Mantookan Blood Supply: A Tough Management Decision
Authors: Reeves, Terrie C.; Copper, Stuart A.; McGee, Gail W.; Liang, Arthur P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: North American Case Research Journal; The Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 1999
This case is based on an actual event that occurred at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. Dan Hatcher, M.D., Director of the Epidemiology Program Office at the CDC, received information that Dr. Jonathon Myongo, a Preventive Medicine Resident at the CDC and a citizen of Mantooka, Africa, published a disturbing article in two Mantookan newspapers...
Guidelines for Social Return on Investment
Authors: Lingane, Alison; Olsen, Sara
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review Volume 46 No. 3, Spring, 2004
Publication Year: 2004
Presents 10 standard guidelines for calculating social return on investment (SROI)--quantitative summaries of companies' social and environmental impacts, actual or projected.
What Every Executive Needs to Know About Global Warming
Authors: Packard, Kimberly O'Neill; Reinhardt, Forest
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2000
Thanks to the development of the Kyoto Protocol--an international plan to limit carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases in the atmosphere--global warming is beginning to assume a prominent position on the agendas of business executives...
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...
Environmental Finance
Author: Volschenk, Jako
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Jako Volschenk, University of Stellenbosch Business School
Publication Year: 2007
This course aims to empower professionals to incorporate the impact of environmental finance into their decision-making. The course will be most relevant to professionals at managerial or technical level in the electricity, oil, mining, investment, insurance, environmental and public sectors...
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...
UNEP Finance Initiative: Innovative Financing for sustainability
Author:
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers; Web Sites
Source: UNEPFI
Publication Year: 2008
The responsibility for deciding where the majority of Institutional Investor's assets are invested lies not with the ultimate asset-owner, but rather with a small number of principals and their agents. By influencing the way investments are made, the legal factors that inform the decisions made by this relatively small group have a profound effect on the behaviour of the entities in which these assets are invested and ultimately on the environments and societies with which these investment vehicles interact.
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...
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...
World's 100 Most Sustainable Companies Announced at Davos
Author: GreenBiz.com
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: GreenBiz.com
Publication Year: 2006
The 2006 "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World" were announced at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos...
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
Authors: Hewlett, Sylvia A.; Buck Luce, Carolyn
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2005
Most professional women step off the career fast track at some point. With children to raise, elderly parents to care for, and other pulls on their time, these women are confronted with one off-ramp after another...
Urban Renewal of Wan Chai: A Collision of People and Policy
Authors: Tso, P.; Germano, L.; Ho, E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Asia Case Research Centre
Publication Year: 2006
Urban redevelopment plans for one of the oldest districts in Hong Kong brings about a dispute between policy-makers and the community regarding the preservation of culture, historic buildings and community-based networks.
Executive Women and the Myth of Having It All
Author: Hewlett, Sylvia A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review OnPoint
Publication Year: 2002
When it comes to having a high-powered career and a family, the painful truth is that women in the United States don't "have it all." At midlife, in fact, at least a third of the country's high-achieving women--a category that includes high wage earners across a variety of professions--do not have children...
Social Alliances: Company / Nonprofit Collaboration
Authors: Berger, Ida E.; Cunningham, Peggy H.; Drumwright, Minette E.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review, Volume 47, No. 1 Fall, 2004.
Publication Year: 2004
Companies are increasingly seeing corporate social responsibility as a key to long-term success and are collaborating with nonprofit organizations in various ways to establish themselves as good corporate citizens...
Sources of Environmentally Destructive Behavior: Individual, Organizational and Institutional Perspectives
Authors: Bazerman, Max H.; Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, 21: 39-79 (1999).
Publication Year: 1999
The question to consider is how individual and social behavior shape how the natural environment is perceived, and how individual, organizational, and institutional values perpetuate behavior that damages it.
Marketing New York City
Authors: Rangan, V. Kasturi; Elberse, Anita; Bell, Marie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
New York City is a pioneer in the emerging field of municipal marketing. The city's first chief marketing officer must develop a marketing organization with a self-funded business model that creates value for the city by leveraging the city's assets, including physical property and media opportunities.
Business for Development - Business Solutions in Support of the Millennium Development Goals
Author:
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2005
Business plays a central role in creating opportunities for empowerment and development. At the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, business publicly ‘stepped up to the plate' by demonstrating that it is taking its own role in development seriously. Part of that commitment involves talking frankly and openly with policy leaders. This publication is part of that ongoing discussion and debate...
Indigestion for the Dean
Author: Cousins, Roland B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: NACRA / Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 1992
The new business dean faces a group of angry faculty members who demand to know why he has ignored the university's published performance appraisal criteria in allocating salary increases...
Global Companies, Global Society: There is a Better Way
Author: Adler, Nancy
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 11 (No. 3), pp. 255-260
Publication Year: 2002
One of the clearest challenges of the 21st century is to create multinational organizations that support an economically vibrant and culturally diverse global society.
Corporate Governance Reforms in China and India: Challenges and Opportunities
Authors: Zhang, Yan; Rajagopalan, Nandini
Product Type: Cases
Source: Business Horizons/Indiana University
Publication Year: 2008
This case is designed to help students better understand corporate governance reforms in China and India, as regards investment in these economies.
Management: Inventing and Delivering its Future
Authors: Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel; Kochan, Thomas A.; Orlikowski, Wanda
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future, editors Thomas A. Kochan and Richard L. Schmalensee, Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2003
Publication Year: 2003
The authors begin from the premise that human capital and knowledge are the most important sources of value for the 21st century organization, and examine several core differences between the assumptions which underlie the 20th and 21st century work organization...
Climate Change for Europe's Utilities
Author:
Product Type: Cases
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Wholesale and retail electricity prices will be forced upward, and gas will replace coal as the basic fuel in many countries. The current proposal, though, would deliver unexpected benefits to many power generators, including fossil fuel plants that are emitting the most CO2. More regulatory negotiations are therefore certain, and European utilities and heavy electricity users will have to give the debate closer attention...
American Mining Company (AMC) in Columbia
Author: Guthery, D
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2001
This case focuses on the ethical dimensions of a decision an American-based company must make in order to survive in a country experiencing civil war...
The New York Times DealBook Blog
Author: Sorkin, Andrew Ross
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2006
Daily news on mergers & acquisitions, I.P.O.'s, venture capital and more.
Economics Wins, Psychology Loses, and Society Pays
Authors: Bazerman, Max H.; Malhotra, Deepak P.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School, Negotiation, Organizations and Markets Unit, Research Paper Series
Publication Year: 2005
Economics is the social science that dominates public policy debate and formulation. We argue that other social sciences, and in particular psychology, have a great deal to offer, and that our failure to incorporate the lessons from other social sciences leads to inferior public policy...
Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
Authors: Nanda, Ramana; Khanna, Tarun
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Working Knowledge
Publication Year: 2009
This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurship in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry...
Global Warming: A Drag on Businesses
Author: Ahmad, Aftab
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Dawn (Pakistan's widely circulated English newspaper)
Publication Year: 2006
If global warming intensifies, there will be more heat-related deaths and more damage to crops and livestock as a result of droughts...
Capitalism at the Crossroads
Author: Hart, Stuart L.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wharton School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
Global capitalism stands at a crossroads—facing international terrorism, worldwide environmental change, and an accelerating backlash against globalization. Today's global companies are at a crossroads, too: finding new strategies for profitable growth has never been more challenging...
Handbook on Responsible Leadership and Governance in Global Business
Authors: Doh, Jonathan P.; Stumpf, Stephen A.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
Ethics, social responsibility, leadership, governance. These terms are heard in the classroom, in the boardroom, and viewed on the front page of newspapers and magazines. Yet serious attention to the relationships among these concepts is lacking...
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