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Preparing to be the Stakeholder Relationship Manager: The Case of Wal-Mart
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2007
This Teaching Module now includes a Teaching Note for Faculty. The job description for Wal-Mart's recently created "Senior Director for Stakeholder Management" seeks "an innovative, out-of-the-box thinker" who can work on the company's commitments in areas including labor and wages, health care, product sourcing, and the environment. Are business schools today training leaders who could fill this role?
IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge (A, B)
Authors: Bartlett, Christopher A.; Dessain, Vincent; Sjoman, Anders
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance of a sourcing strategy based on its close relationships with suppliers in developing countries...
Mining and Metals: Five Issues with Broad Implications
Authors: Shattuck, Rachel; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
The mining and metals industry offers many challenging questions and useful lessons for MBA students. This teaching module helps professors raise these topics in the classroom by bringing together a variety of different materials from different sources that can be used both as background reading and as the focus of class discussion...
Nike Inc.: Developing an Effective Public Relations Strategy
Authors: Everett, Donna R.; Slaughter, Kathleen E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2000
It had been almost a decade since the first article surfaced in the media alleging that factories sub-contracted by Nike in China and Indonesia were forcing workers to work long hours for low pay, and for physically and verbally abusive managers. The article was the seed of a media campaign that created a public relations nightmare for the company...
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.
Merck & Co., Inc.: Addressing Third World Needs (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Weiss, Stephanie; Hanson, Kirk O.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Business Enterprise Trust
Publication Year: 1991
Researchers at Merck & Co. believe that a drug they had developed for animals might be an effective treatment for human river blindness, a debilitating illness that affects hundreds of thousands of poor people in the Third World. The process of development and testing, however, will be enormously costly...
International Sourcing in Athletic Footwear: Nike and Reebok
Author: Rosenzweig, Philip M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1994
Nike and Reebok, the two largest athletic footwear companies, look to contractors in Asia to manufacture their shoes. Sourcing from Asia offers advantages of low cost and flexibility, but raises questions about human rights and corporate responsibility...
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...
Building Products International - A Crisis Management Strategy (A, B, C)
Authors: DiStefano, Joseph D.; Everett, Donna R.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2000
The decision-maker responsible for evacuating company managers and their families from a crisis situation now faces a political hot-potato due to second-guessing from superiors, peers and subordinates as a result of decisions he made during the evacuation.
Nike's Dispute with the University of Oregon
Authors: Lawrence, A; Morris, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2001
In April 2000, Philip Knight, Founder and Deputy Executive Officer of the athletic shoe and apparel company Nike Inc, announced that he would no longer give money to his alma mater, the University of Oregon, because the university had joined the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC). Knight was upset because Nike had helped found and was an active supporter of a different approach to establishing fair wages and working conditions in the overseas shoe and apparel industry.
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