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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] 11233 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?
Citibank: Launching the Credit Card in Asia Pacific (A)
Author: Rangan, V. Kasturi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1994
Consumer Bank pondered the possibilities of launching a credit card in the Asia Pacific region. The bank's New York headquarters, and several of its country managers in the region, were not enthusiastic...
Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (A, B)
Author: Salter, Malcolm S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Presents a brief historical overview of Enron's rise, its strategic successes and failures...
Wal-Mart, 2005
Author: Yoffie, David B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
Wal-Mart has been expanding, both domestically and internationally. This case covers recent developments at Wal-Mart, including new stores, new store formats, and international expansion. The learning objective of this case is: To look at strategy and competition in the discount retail environment.
Eat2Eat.com
Authors: Goodwin, Nigel; Hardy, Kenneth G.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
Faculty Rating: 
[2 Faculty Ratings] 6323 views
Eat2Eat.com was an Internet-based restaurant reservation service covering a dozen cities in the Asia Pacific region. The case focuses on entrepreneurial marketing with sub-themes of financing and small enterprise management. It is a story of an entrepreneur who had an idea and enough money to launch it, but then struggles to achieve adequate scale...
Energy Efficiency Teaching Module
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
At its core, energy efficiency is about doing more with less. In times of a down economy and uncertain energy prices, the importance of saving energy seems clear; over the long term, however, how does a focus on energy efficiency make sense for business? Business is both uniquely suited to address the problems of energy efficiency and to reap the potential rewards of those solutions, if it is able to meld social and profit constraints into a plan for an innovative energy future. The purpose of this Module is to discuss energy efficiency as a strategic solution rather than a defensive reaction, and to present ways to manage challenges and make the most of opportunities at this intersection of business and society.
The Shakedown: Should Customer Strategy Solutions Pay Off the Tax Officials?
Author: Bodrock, Phil
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Review.
Publication Year: 2005
Customer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo Zhuk, set up a software development center in Kiev, local bureaucrats say the company hasn't filed all the tax schedules it should have...
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?
Monsanto Europe (A, B)
Authors: Wesley, David T.A.; Lane, Henry W.; Spital, Francis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Monsanto, one of the world's largest producers of commodity chemicals, had decided to focus its operations on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The first shipment of genetically modified soybeans arrived in Europe in November of 1996...
Hewlett Packard Company in Vietnam
Author: Lau, Geok T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: North America Case Research Association, Case Research Journal, Spring, 2000; The Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 2000
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 3857 views
In late 1995, John Peter, a marketing manager of Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific Limited, was evaluating the division's strategic options for doing business in Vietnam. John needed to recommend whether HPAP should enter the Vietnam market in a more strategic fashion...
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