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Access Teaching Module
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: 
[1 Faculty Rating] 11254 views
Access, to new markets and materials, to new sources of labor and information, to new communities and new ideas, is crucial to business, and can also serve as a way to spread the benefits of economic development to people and their communities. How does access bring value to business and society and can it also be used to reduce the downside of globalization?
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
This Teaching Module addresses key issues around low-wage work in the American economy. Its purpose is to introduce the theme of low-wage work and discuss competing sides of the issues it raises for managers, as well as provide examples of solutions businesses have used to address some of the challenges raised by low-wage work.
Hurricane Katrina: Business School Classroom Discussions in its Aftermath
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex; CasePlace.org
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2005
As classes resumed in early September 2005, many students wanted to talk about Hurricane Katrina, its aftermath, and its implications on our society and us as business professionals. This collection poses ways to bring the topic of Katrina into the business school classroom, drawing upon but also analyzing and moving beyond what appears in the daily press.
The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A, B, C, D, E)
Authors: Ferman, Carrie; Esty, Benjamin C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
On June 6, 2000, the World Bank's and IFC's board of directors was scheduled to vote on whether to approve funding for the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline project. Although the project presented a unique opportunity to alleviate poverty in Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world, Chad had a president who had been described as a "warlord" and a history of civil war and oppression...
Access: Business and Society
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
How does access make a difference when it comes to corporate social responsibility or to the social and environmental costs of globalization, and how are businesses affected by increased connectivity to communities, to nonprofits, or to stakeholders?
CARE Kenya: Making Social Enterprise Sustainable
Authors: Ewart, Tom; Bansal, Pratima
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
CARE's Rural Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Promotion project is a new, market-driven approach to development in Kenya. While the project has been successful from a development standpoint, it is not commercially viable...
Doing Business in Africa
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2006
Many cases on Africa follow how large multinational companies do business in Africa: dealing with AIDS, pricing pharmaceutical products, or developing a post-divestiture strategy. The cases in this Teaching Module are distinctive for digging into how businesses within Africa manage growth and contribute to economic development...
Social Entrepreneurs: Correcting Market Failures (A, B)
Authors: Phillis, James A.; Denend, Lyn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2005
This case examines the insights, aspirations, and impact of three leading social entrepreneurs, their organizations, and their efforts to correct a diverse array of classical market failures...
Burroughs Wellcome and the Pricing of AZT (A)
Author: Liedtka, Jeanne M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 1991
Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), finds itself under siege in September 1989 by AIDS activists and various segments of the U.S. government...
The Great Leap: Driving Innovation From the Base of the Pyramid
Authors: Hart, Stuart L.; Christensen, Clayton M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review. Fall 2002, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 51-56
Publication Year: 2002
As multinationals unrelentingly seek new growth to satisfy shareholders, they increasingly hear concerns from many quarters about environmental degradation, labor exploitation, cultural hegemony and local autonomy. What is to be done? Must corporations' thirst for growth and profits serve only to exacerbate the antiglobalization movement?
Access: Outsourcing
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 3133 views
How businesses can access the benefits of a global marketplace without falling prey to the accompanying risks is a critical question.
Dr. Iqbal Surve at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Hill, Linda A.; Stecker, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self-described “medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur,” was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer “a gentler capitalism” that stressed putting people before profits, and talent development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans.
In the Shadow of the City
Authors: Reed, James; Richardson, Nicholas; Donnellon, Anne
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1990
Traces the history of a collaborative effort to create an organization to manage a major international development project in the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Focuses on a serious set of disagreements which develops several months into the project between the two principals, an Ethiopian woman who founded the project and a British entrepreneur who is the coordinator of the donor consortium...
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy - Dead End or a Way Out?
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Most of us believe that full-time work should pay enough to avoid poverty, but this often isn't the case. While there is no one accepted definition of "low-wage work," there are an estimated 30 million Americans earning around the poverty line or below.
Inequality and the "American Model"
Authors: Di Tella, Rafael; Vogel, Ingrid
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2002
Official data that suggest economic inequality has been mounting in the United States on various dimensions since 1979...
TOMS Shoes: From Soul to Sole
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2008
TOMS shoes are the harbinger of what has been christened as the ‘one to one movement’- for every shoe a customer buys, TOMS donates a pair to a child in need.
Coca-Cola India's Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
Authors: Purkayastha, D.; Faheem, Hadiya
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 2587 views
This case details the activities taken up by Coca-Cola India's management and employees to contribute to the society and community in which the company operates.
Access: New Markets, New Methods
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
As businesses reach new markets they not only find more resources and consumers, but also new ways of doing business.
Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd.
Authors: Khaire, Mukti; Kothandaraman, Prabakar PK
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Fabindia is a for-profit Indian retail company with the stated mission of providing employment to weavers and traditional handicraft artisans in rural India. Demonstrates a unique business model, discusses the opportunities and constraints that a strong vision entails, and the growth challenges of novel business models.
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy - Low Wage Costs and Benefits
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
A primary business concern must be long-term success and the perpetuation of profits, goals often dependent on gaining a competitive advantage. An on-going debate is whether low-wage labor presents just such an advantage to U.S. businesses.
Synergies Between Business Opportunity and Community Development
Authors: Scully, Maureen; CasePlace.org
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2006
This Featured Collection examines instances when a business opportunity in an economically struggling community becomes an engine for community development...
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...
Madam C.J. Walker
Authors: Koehn, Nancy F.; Dwojeski, Anne E.; Grundy, William; Helms, Erica; Miller, Katherine
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Madam C. J. Walker, the first self-made African-American woman millionaire, was active in the social and political causes of her day, and used her position as a successful entrepreneur to promote philanthropy. Analyzes the evolution of business leadership, from entrepreneurial origins to market pre-eminence and social impact.
Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid
Author: Hart, Stuart L.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: BA 256B Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid, Johnson School of Management, Cornell University
Publication Year: 2004
As corporations search for new avenues of profitable growth and innovation, they are increasingly targeting a unique, counter intuitive opportunity--the 4 billion poor that are at the base of the economic pyramid in emerging economies.
Bicycles for India
Authors: Narapareddy, Vijaya; Sampson, Nancy
Product Type: Cases
Source: North American Case Research Association, Case Research Journal, Fall 1999
Publication Year: 1999
Paul Polak, President of International Development Enterprises (IDE), and other team members of the bicycle project face numerous delays in the development of an appropriate plastics compound utilizing recycled plastics and organic fibers required for making hassle-free plastic wheels...
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....
Procter & Gamble Brazil (A, B)
Author: Bird, Matthew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
The case teaches change management skills from the middle, the developing and deploying of change agents.
Toyota Trains India Teens
Author: Lakshman, Natasha
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: BusinessWeek.com
Publication Year: 2008
Toyota's Bangalore institute aims to give poor teenagers a leg up and produce skilled workers for the subcontinent's auto boom.
The Importance of Cultural Framing to the Success of Social Initiatives in Business
Authors: Howard-Grenville, Jennifer; Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Executive. Vol. 17, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 2003
Cultural frames provide leverage for action on social initiatives, as shown in a case on the air pollution issue in semiconductor manufacturing.
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in the Coming Economy – Expanded Version
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 2101 views
FULL VERSION of the Low Wage Work Teaching Module.
Misery Loves Company: Rethinking Social Initiatives by Business
Authors: Margolis, Joshua; Walsh, James
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Administrative Science Quarterly. Vol. 48, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 2003
This paper assesses how organization theory and empirical research have thus far responded to this tension over corporate involvement in wider social life.
Grameen Bank
Authors: Gupta, Vivek; Indu, P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2006
The case explains Bangladesh based Grameen Bank's two microfinance models - Grameen Classic System and Grameen General System (GGS). Data is presented so that students are able to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of Grameen General microfinance model.
Low-Wage / Frontline Workers Teaching Materials Portal
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This collection is part of our business faculty network on Low-Wage / Frontline Workers. It is designed to provide a repository of teaching materials that incorporate issues of low-wage workers into a business’s core decision-making process.
Access Teaching Module- Full Version
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
FULL VERSION OF TEACHING MODULE. Access, to new markets and materials, to new sources of labor and information, to new communities and new ideas, is crucial to business, and can also serve as a way to spread the benefits of economic development to people and their communities.
Access: Teaching Questions and Additional References
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Access: Teaching Questions and Additional References
Access: Information and Innovation
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
How does access to ideas and information change the way people live and work?
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy - Business Prescriptions
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
What responsibility do companies have to their employees? And how can companies help their employees work more and more efficiently, benefitting both communities and corporations?
The Voice of the Stakeholder
Authors: Samuelson, Judith; Birchard, Bill
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business. Fall 2003; Issue 32.
Publication Year: 2003
This article discusses the importance of listening to stakeholders in today's business reality. Drawing on 12 recent publications, the authors both identify and address five challenges in realizing a vision of social responsibility by relating to stakeholders...
Sustainable Development, Sustainable Profit
Authors: Mair, Johanna; Seelos, Christian
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: European Business Forum. Issue 20. Winter 2005
Publication Year: 2005
No wonder managers are irritated. The promise of growth is already built into today's share prices, as a reminder of investors expectations of future cash flows. This poses a dilemma...
Entrepreneurial Strategies for Social Impact
Authors: Mair, Johanna; Seelos, Christian
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Progress requires innovation in technologies, products and services but mostly also in the process of how to engage the poor and how to build business models able to satisfy the needs of the poor while being financially sustainable. These solutions are not limited to the non-profit sector or to social entrepreneurs but provide a viable concept for profit oriented firms as well...
E. Rachel Hubka (A, B)
Authors: Wattenberg, Laura M.; Meyer, Kathleen A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Business Enterprise Trust
Publication Year: 1996
E. Rachel Hubka, general manager of a Chicago school bus company, has the opportunity to start her own bus business. Hubka hopes to tap a new labor pool and help her community by locating her business in an inner-city neighborhood that most business has abandoned.
Kaskazi Network Ltd: Distributing to the Bottom of the Pyramid (A, B, C)
Authors: Sjoblom, L; Karugu, W.; Schuepbach, L.
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2008
This three part case series deals with the distribution of FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) to low income areas (slums) in Kenya.
Social Enterprise: Private Initiatives for the Common Good
Author: Dees, J. Gregory
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing, Note 9-395-116
Publication Year: 1994
This note defines 'social enterprise' as a private social purpose venture which may be either non-profit or for-profit.
Essilor's "Base of the Pyramid" Strategy in India
Authors: Benkirane, K.; Roger-Machart, C.; Garrette, Bernard
Product Type: Cases
Source: HEC Paris
Publication Year: 2008
The case presents a BOP project that Essilor, the world leader in ophthalmic lenses with 3 billion euros sales, has been implementing in India.
Monkeybiz: Marketing The 'Bigger Than Barbie' Dream
Authors: Motala, M; Golestaneh, M
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Cape Town
Publication Year: 2008
Monkeybiz is a registered not-for-profit organization (NPO), which aims to alleviate poverty for South African township bead workers.
Teaching Module on Low Wage Work - Teaching Questions and Additional References
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
The teaching questions and additional references for the Low Wage Work Teaching Module.
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy - Can Wage Laws Benefit All?
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Those interested in promoting higher wages for low-wage workers also look to government policies to provide support, including minimum and living wage laws and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Minimum wage laws, while no longer controversial in the U.S., may still become an issue when not applied to sub-classes of workers (illegal immigrants, youth, or some service workers).
The Mirage of Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid
Author: Karnani, Aneel
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
This article argues that the private sector can play a key role in poverty alleviation by viewing the poor as producers, not just potential consumers, and emphasize buying from them, rather than selling to them.
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