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Aligning Corporate Performance with Community Economic Development to Achieve Win-Win Impacts
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: 2001
J.P. Morgan Chase (formerly the Chase Manhattan Bank) has created an organizational structure to drive business and community development across the organization...
Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Programme in Rural Bangladesh
Authors: Richardson, Don; Ramirez, Ricardo; Haq, Moinul
Product Type: Cases
Source: TeleCommons Development Group
Publication Year: 2000
GrameenPhone is a commercial operation providing cellular services in both urban and rural areas of Bangladesh, with approximately 40,000 customers. A pilot programme of GrameenPhone, through the Grameen Bank and a wholly owned subsidiary called Grameen Telecom, is enabling women members of the Grameen Bank's revolving credit system to retail cellular phone services in rural areas...
Volkswagen in the Global War Against HIV/AIDS
Authors: Bruzzi Boechat, Cláudio; Werneck, Nísia Duarte; Masilela, Temba; Miraglia, Letícia
Product Type: Cases
Source: UN Global Compact Learning Forum
Publication Year: 2004
The HIV/AIDS epidemic became a global disease and threatens humankind. Volkswagen decided to face the challenge of facing it in global and local approaches...
Public Action to Remedy Hunger
Author: Sen, Amartya
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Speeches
Source: The Hunger Project
Publication Year: 1990
Amartya Sen argues that systematic public action can eradicate the terrible and resilient problems of starvation and hunger in the world in which we live...
Proving Leo Durocher Wrong: Driving Work/Life Change at Ernst & Young
Authors: Friedman, Stewart D.; Thompson, Cynthia; Carpenter, Michelle; Marcel, Dennis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Wharton Work/Life Integration Project
Publication Year: 2002
Ernst & Young, LLP (E&Y), one of the "Big 5" accounting and consulting firms in the United States, has invested heavily over the last several years in the transformation of the organization and its culture to make it more supportive of life beyond work...
Committee for Democracy in Information Technology
Authors: Mair, Johanna; Verges, Serges
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2004
Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The Comite para Democratizacao da Informatica (CDI) was a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded by Rodrigo Baggio in Brazil in 1995. Its mission was to set up schools to teach computer skills to low-income communities so that slum residents could begin to move into the mainstream of society and improve their prospects...
Access: Microfinance
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
In contrast to the downside of globalization, access to capital and other resources is one way in which increased connectivity helps the poor.
Hurricane Katrina: Continuing the Discussions A Year Later
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex; The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2006
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the media was suddenly broaching topics such as race inequality and environmental planning that receive little attention in the national discourse. CasePlace.org released a Featured Collection that covered a variety of topics that could be raised in business school classrooms (ranging from how to detect windfall profits to the history of racialized images in the media to budget tradeoffs in the face of warnings about environmental disaster). A year later, the same issues are relevant, but have they lost urgency? From securing levees to securing livelihoods, these topics remain important for future business leaders....
McDonald's Corporation: Environmentalism (A)
Authors: Lubetkin, Julie; Lattin, James M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 1991
This case summarizes the operations of McDonald's, and a series of public relations and environmental campaigns undertaken by the company...
The Corporation in Society (Interactive Course Syllabus)
Author: Walsh, James P.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Professor James P. Walsh, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Publication Year: 2005
Perhaps the most difficult challenge for managers is to sustain their idealism and noble aspirations with the practical demands of getting their work done and satisfying their shareholders. A broad framework for understanding the role that companies play in society, and the expanded role that they are being asked to play, is indispensable for sorting out the questions and challenges they face. These challenges may be most acute for people as they begin their careers...
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