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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
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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
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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...
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