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Subsidies: Rationales and Trade and Investment Distortions
Authors: Conklin, David W.; Cadieux, Danielle
Product Type: Notes
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Subsidies now play a key role in business location decisions, and impact their international competitiveness. Foreign-based corporations may regard these lower prices as unfair competition in international trade. Nevertheless, subsidies are implemented to pursue certain social objectives, and so an intergovernmental pact that limits subsidies may diminish, rather that improve, the well-being of signatories.
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.
Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs
Authors: Macomber, John D.; Carr, Chad M.; Zhao, Fan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately held company providing the entire supply chain of water treatment, waste water, and integrated municipal solid waste capabilities. However, state owned enterprises can observe the success of private business and can enter and compete using their own skills, contacts, and inexpensive capital.
Suncor's Political Role in Fort McMurray
Author: Valente, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
In the midst of massive growth in the oil sands, Suncor's chief executive officer (CEO) is growing concerned about the local government's inability to cope with unprecedented growth of oils sands development in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Crime, prostitution, drug use, social inequality and ecological deterioration have begun to cripple the area. The CEO is concerned that inaction may hold Suncor complicit in the social and ecological issues in the region.
2011 Global Peace Index
Author: Institute for Economics and Peace
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Web Sites
Source: Institute for Economics and Peace
Publication Year: 2011
Peace is one of the most used and esteemed words in the human vocabulary. The most peaceful societies have higher per capita income, higher levels of well-being, more freedom, perform better at sustainability, and appear to have a more equitable distribution of social spending. Yet if we wish to create peace then we must first pose the question; "what do we know about peace?” The Institute for Economics and Peace, in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit and with the guidance of an international team of academics and peace experts, has compiled the Global Peace Index.
Tyco International: Corporate Governance
Author: Khurana, Rakesh
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Examines how Tyco and its board recovered from its corporate scandals.
Insider Trading Quiz
Authors: Paine, Lynn Sharp; Bruner, Christopher M.
Product Type: Exercises
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Designed to reinforce and test understanding of basic theories of insider trading under U.S. law.
10b5-1 Plans: Mortgaging a Defense against Insider Trading
Authors: Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
This case is designed for a discussion of insider trading regulations and the safe haven provisions of 10b5-1. Readers of the case are expected to consider from the perspective of shareholders, corporate boards and regulators the appropriate restrictions that should be placed on executive stock sales and specifically what constitutes trading on the basis of material nonpublic information.
Heroes or Mercenaries?: Blackwater, Private Security Companies, and the U.S. Military
Author: Dunning, Rebecca
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Publication Year: 2010
This case uses two widely publicized events in the Iraq war involving the private security company Blackwater USA to consider how private military contractors have influenced and have been influenced by changes in the organization and perceived mission of the U.S. Armed Forces.
The Investment Bank Job: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Goldman Sachs
Author: Schrieber, Andrew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Publication Year: 2011
This case study examines the evolution of the modern financial industry and the organizational and structural shifts within Wall Street banks that led to the crisis at Goldman Sachs.
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