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TED Talks: Video Collection
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Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: TED
Publication Year: 2013
This video collection of TED Talks highlights social, environmental and ethical issues related to business and can be used as an introduction to this varied video library on fascinating ideas by remarkable people.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on law and policy.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on corporate governance.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on the role of corporate law.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on shareholder value.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on the problems with shareholder primacy.
Water Resources
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
As one of our most basic needs, water is often thought of as both free and inexhaustible. Unfortunately, climate change, population growth, intensive agricultural practices, pollution, and inefficient use have all put pressure on global water supplies, pressure that will only increase without strategic changes.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
It is hard to single out a more consequential idea today than the following: the purpose of the business corporation is to maximize profits. While this assertion is first and foremost only an idea, it is clearly an idea with legs. In fact, for decades the "shareholder-centric" model of the firm has been the organizing principle of Anglo-Saxon style capitalism.
Economics and Peace 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 offers resources to help teach business students about peace. We hope this collection grows and encourages further inquiry into the business and peace nexus.
The Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2011
The Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education developed the Corporate Governance and Accountability Project with the goal of influencing prevailing models of corporate governance and theories of the firm, as they are understood and taught by business school faculty. Rebalancing the short-term/long-term focus of business will make it possible to bring a wider view to the role of business, one that encompasses both fiscal and societal well-being.
Reading Collections Homepage
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
Reading Collections are brief sets of cases, references, and other materials designed to facilitate teaching by providing introductions to specific topics.
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.
Employee Ownership: Making It Work
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
Employee ownership is a persuasive concept for many, owners and employees alike. But how to decide if an ESOP or other equity model is the right alternative, how to get started, and how to keep the model working once it is in place? This Reading Collection includes a selection of material related to the nuts and bolts of ESOP and other equity models.
The Employee Ownership Culture
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
How to establish a positive employee culture and use it to promote the good of the company are key questions for business leaders. Supporters of employee-owned businesses argue that instilling an ownership culture creates the type of human resource environment necessary for corporate success. This Reading Collection includes material related to the organizational cultures of companies using employee and stock ownership, profit sharing, and other incentive-based compensation models.
Employee Ownership and Performance
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
Companies choose employee ownership models for many reasons, including better governance, succession planning, cultural, or other reasons, but in all cases one of the critical questions to ask is "How is employee ownership related to performance?"
Employee Ownership in Traditional Industries
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2010
One of the most significant changes to business in the twentieth century was the shift from more traditional manufacturing and basic industries to high technology and services. As the cases and other material in this Collection illustrate, a number of companies have been able to overcome these challenges not by removing more employees from the equation, as with outsourcing, but by instead integrating employees more closely into their organizational and governance structures.
Employee Ownership, Technology and Innovation
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2010
Increased employee participation encourages the same traits that high-tech companies often look to encourage in their organizations: employee motivation, team work, innovation, involvement, and constructive culture. The following Collection includes material on a number of companies at the cutting edge of technology development as well as several companies with less high-profile products, but who nevertheless emphasize both technological development and innovation.
Employee Ownership in the Airline Industry
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2010
One of the most visible examples of employee ownership in companies has been in the airline industry, where players like Southwest and United have made efforts to increase employee participation, responsibility and ownership. This Reading Collection features case and other material highlighting airlines' experiences with employee ownership.
The Case Method: Teaching with and Writing Cases
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2010
A collection of how-to material for teaching with and writing cases.
Business Ethics in China: Resources
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Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: Santa Clara University
Publication Year: 2010
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has a long-standing interest in business ethics in the Chinese context.
Differences at Work
Authors: Sucher, Sandra J.; Gordon, Rachel
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
The "Differences at Work" case collection, offered by Harvard Business Publishing, presents a number of short dilemmas involving ethical, legal, and/or diversity issues.
Corporate Redesign
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Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: 2007 Summit of the Future of the Corporation
Publication Year: 2007
Corporation 20/20 (www.Corporation2020.org), launched in 2004, is a forum, visionary and advocate for transformation of corporations in ways that harness the innovation and resources of private interests to serve the public interest in the 21st century.
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....
Doing Business in Latin America
Authors: Scully, Maureen; CasePlace.org
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2004
Doing Business in Latin America is a Teaching Module focusing on four cases, one in Colombia, two related cases in Argentina, and one in Chile. The collection touches on issues from conflict of interest...
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...
Doing Business in Europe
Authors: Scully, Maureen; CasePlace.org
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2004
Doing Business in Europe is a Teaching Module that includes three business case studies and three background pieces – a book and two articles - focusing on a broad range of issues touching on the differences between doing business in the United States and doing business in Europe.
Doing Business in Asia
Author: Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2004
Doing Business in Asia is a teaching module of four business case studies and three background readings from our Tools and Resources section, examining the topic from a variety of angles, from the practical to the ethical.
Framing Social Issues for Business
Authors: Scully, Maureen; CasePlace.org
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2004
As policy and business issues continue to intersect, it has become increasingly important for various stakeholders to frame issues in business terms, in order to "sell" them to businesses and generate greater attention.
List of IESE Published Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Materials
Author: Mair, Johanna
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2007
A collection of Johanna Mair's social entrepreneurship teaching materials published at IESE.
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