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Introduction to Sustainability in Business-Concepts & Issues
Author: Drobny, Neil L.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Fisher College of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Introduction to Sustainability in Business – Concepts and Issues will trace the historical evolution of present day expectations on corporations and other organizations for taking on environmental and social responsibilities that may seem unrelated to their core mission.
The Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development: Tackling HIV/AIDS and Poverty in South Africa (A, B, C)
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
In 1998, Klaus Leisinger and Karin Schmitt of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development in Basel, Switzerland, were approached by a sociologist who wanted help in launching a pilot program in Tanzania to deal with the crisis of the more than 8 million HIV/AIDS-orphaned children in sub-Saharan Africa.
Abbott and the AIDS Crisis (A, B, C)
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
This case details the evolution of the AIDS crisis, Abbott Laboratories' HIV/AIDS drug production, and the company’s efforts--in 1999--to find other ways to battle HIV/AIDS globally.
BHP Billiton and Mozal (A, B)
Authors: Hartman, Laura; Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resource company at the start of the 21st century, began a feasibility study in 1995 for building an aluminum smelter project in the Maputo province in southern Mozambique--one of the world’s poorest countries that was hampered by fragile legal, financial, and health, safety, environmental, and community institutional structures and capacity.
Procter & Gamble: Children's Safe Drinking Water (A, B)
Authors: Hartman, Laura; Mead, Jenny; Sheehan, Justin
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
With a long history of scientific research and innovation in health, hygiene, and nutrition, P&G considered ways it could address the safe drinking-water crisis as the new millennium approached.
Caffeine with a Conscience
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Wicks, Andrew C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
Is "Fair Trade" really fair? This case examines the issues through the eyes of one coffee-drinker who has specifically chosen her caffeine venue because of the Fair Trade designation.
ExxonMobil and the Chad/Cameroon Pipeline (A, B)
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2003
This case presents the dilemma of ExxonMobil as it factors in the ethics issues related to the environment and cultural differences in deciding whether to proceed with building a pipeline in Chad and Cameroon, two of the poorest and most corrupt developing countries in West Africa.
GE Healthcare in India: An Ultra(Sound) Strategy?
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Harris, Jared; Jain, Mayank
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
This case outlines the dilemma of when the GE Healthcare’s ultrasound machines were implicated in many cases of prenatal sex determination in India. Many women were relying on ultrasound machines to determine the gender of their fetus and, if it were a girl, having abortions.
International Rivers Network and the Bujagali Dam Project (A, B)
Authors: Esty, Benjamin C.; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2004
In the summer of 2002, the International Rivers Network was engaged in what appeared to be the last hours of a three year campaign to stop a $582 million dam and hydropower project at Bujagali Falls in Uganda.
Web-Conference: Low-Wage Workers in the Coming Economy
Authors: Blake-Beard, Stacy; Ernst Kossek, Ellen; Popovich, Mark; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
On November 20th, 2009, Aspen CBE hosted a web-conference on "Low-Wage Workers in the Coming Economy."
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