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Cadbury: An Ethical Company Struggles to Insure the Integrity of Its Supply Chain
Authors: Chatterjee, Sumana; Elias, Jaan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Yale School of Management
Publication Year: 2008
In 2000 and 2001, revelations that the production of cocoa in the Côte d’Ivoire involved child slave labor set chocolate companies, consumers, and governments reeling. The stories of child slave labor on Côte d’Ivoire cocoa farms hit Cadbury especially hard. Furthermore, Cadbury’s culture had been deeply rooted in the religious traditions of the company’s founders, and the organization had paid close attention to the welfare of its workers and its sourcing practices.
JP Morgan: Lessons Learned
Author: Sapp, Stephen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Following the revelation of a US$2 billion loss on trading at JP Morgan’s chief investment office in London, the company’s board of directors is tasked with recommending changes to its risk management practices and corporate governance structure...
Why Are Business Leaders Prioritising Sustainability?
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Temple Group; Sustainable Business; Edie.net
Publication Year: 2012
Despite economic pressures, sustainability remains very firmly on the boardroom agenda. This report examines the current sustainability landscape to investigate where boardroom priorities actually are, how deeply embedded sustainability has become, or remained, in business operations and how that will change over the next few years.
A Blueprint for Better Business
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Product Type: Cases
Source: Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales Working Group
Publication Year: 2012
There is increasing recognition among business leaders that the internal culture of business, including its underlying values, beliefs and principles, has to be candidly examined to see in what way it has contributed to the breakdown of trust. Are business people too narrowly focused on the bottom line, on maximising shareholder value in the short term? Do these perspectives blind them to the effects of their actions on wider society? This document examines examples of some of the personal dilemmas and frustrations of the business life.
Schuberg Philis
Authors: DeLong, Thomas J.; Beyersdorfer, Daniela
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
A growing workload and 100% promise to customers have increased the pressure on Schuberg Philis' non-hierarchical teams of engineers, as well as the hiring speed, which some fear could dilute their corporate culture...
A.P. Moller - Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Bill Allen and Maria Pejter of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, discuss talent management issues: an increase an employee turnover; internal training and development programs; hiring experienced talent from outside the firm; rehiring former employees ("boomerangs"); and increasing employee diversity.
Rospil.info
Authors: Healy, Paul M.; Ramanna, Karthik; Shaffer, Matthew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
What should business leaders do about corruption? In December 2011, four HBS alumni met to debate how to engage the unprecedented protests against Vladimir Putin's corrupt government...
Maersk Line and the Future of Container Shipping
Authors: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Reinhardt, Forest; Nellemann, Frederik
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Maersk Line was hoping that customers would increasingly make sustainability a purchasing criterion, thus differentiating Maersk Line from competing carriers. Could sustainability really provide Maersk Line with a competitive advantage in an industry that was considered to be commoditized?
Inspirational Guide for the Implementation of PRME: Placing Sustainability at the Heart of Management Education
Author: GSE Research Limited
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: GSE Research Limited; United Nations Global Compact, Principles for Responsible Management Education
Publication Year: 2012
While consensus has been reached by the majority of globally focused management education institutions that sustainability must be incorporated into management education curricula, the relevant question is no longer why management education should change, but how? This Guide addresses frequently asked questions concerning the implementation of principles for responsible management education by highlighting real world examples with cases from dozens of institutions in countries around the world...
Willful Blindness: When a Leader Turns a Blind Eye
Author: Heffernan, Margaret
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ivey Business Journal
Publication Year: 2012
When the British Member of Parliament, Adrian Sanders, asked Rupert and James Murdoch if they were familiar with the term “willful blindness,” their silence said it all. The MP defined it for them: “If there is knowledge that you could have had, should have had but chose not to have, you are still responsible.” Then and now, willful blindness was a concept that should send shivers down the spines of any executive...
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