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EcoPost: Financing a Green Startup in Africa
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, EcoPost manufactures construction posts out of the thousands of tons of plastic waste produced daily by the city. However, they face many obstacles overcoming skepticism from investors, largely because of their relatively poor financial record keeping...
Paragon Legal: A New Model (A, B)
Authors: Soule, Sarah A.; Correll, Shelley J.; Schifrin, Debra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The case is about the San Francisco-based law firm, Paragon Legal, founded by lawyer and entrepreneur Mae O'Malley. Paragon Legal gave high-level attorneys the opportunity to have a flexible schedule and work 10 to 40 hours a week. This was in the context of an industry that typically required very long hours and had inflexible schedules and serious penalties for stepping out of the field for any length of time. Eighty-five percent of Paragon Legal attorneys were women with children, but the firm also attracted women and men without children who wanted to find a work/life balance.
Cutting out the Middle-Man: The Case for Direct Business Involvement in Environmental Justice
Authors: McCrory, Martin A.; Langvardt, Kyle T.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Employing as a jumping-off point a recent high-profile and multi-faceted scandal involving Penn State University and decision makers affiliated with it, this article explores a number of ethical decision making lessons to be learned from that scandal and considers how those lessons can be applied to a variety of decisions faced by corporate leaders...
Three Lessons of Ownership
Author: Carleton, Tamara
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2012
Can your company truly build and sustain that early founding feeling, in which everyone continues to feel vested as the scale of the organization changes? Drawing from a research study funded by the Foundation for Enterprise Development, the author discovered that federal government contractor Science Applications International Corporation, known as SAIC, provides an astounding example of ownership culture at work three decades after its inception.
Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum
Author: UN Global Compact
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: United Nations Global Compact; Maplecroft
Publication Year: 2012
The Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum aims to enhance our collective understanding of human rights themes and to stimulate discussion about the dilemmas responsible multi-national companies may face in their efforts to respect and support human rights when operating in emerging economies.
Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)
Authors: Jones, Geoffrey G.; Ghanem, Lana
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The case is concerned with Elia Nuqul, the founder of Jordanian-based Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. The case is positioned within the wider context of the regional conflict in Palestine and Israel, and it provides a vehicle for exploring the role and responsibility of entrepreneurs, if any, in such conflicts...
Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution
Author: Kelly, Marjorie
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2012
Looking around at the wreckage left in the wake of the world economy’s latest crisis, veteran business journalist Marjorie Kelly noticed that some institutions were left relatively unscathed. What did they have in common? The key, Kelly realized, is seemingly obscure: ownership. Prominent among the survivors were organizations that combined the flexibility of traditional private ownership with a focus on the common good...
Vietnam Handicraft Initiative: Moving Toward Sustainable Operations
Authors: Easter, Sarah; Dato-on, Mary Conway
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
A recent MBA graduate has just received a one-year business assignment as a business development and marketing advisor to work with the Vietnam Handicraft Initiative (VHI), a vocational training and employment center for people with disabilities, located in Central Vietnam. Her job is to assist the VHI to increase its productivity, become sustainable and strengthen the capacity of the organization through improved business and marketing plans...
Equal Exchange: Doing Well by Doing Good© – Case Notes
Authors: Harris, Benita W.; Manz, Karen P.; Shipper, Frank; Manz, Charles C.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Foundation for Enterprise Development
Publication Year: 2012
Case notes to accompany the case "Equal Exchange: Doing Well by Doing Good©."
Equal Exchange: Doing Well by Doing Good©
Authors: Harris, Benita W.; Manz, Karen P.; Shipper, Frank; Manz, Charles C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Foundation for Enterprise Development
Publication Year: 2012
In 1983, Rink Dickinson, Jonathan Rosenthal, and Michael Rozyne were all recent college graduates and working for a food co-op warehouse in the Boston area. They began to question the system, asking “What if food could be traded in a way that is honest and fair, a way that empowers both farmers and consumers? What if trade supported family farms' use of organic methods rather than methods that harm the environment?” It became apparent to them that if they were going to pursue their vision, they were going to have to develop an organization...
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