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Bill McKibben's Battle Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
Author: Greenfeld, Karl Taro
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
Publication Year: 2013
Faculty Rating: 
[1 Faculty Rating] 135 views
McKibben believes that Americans have no choice but to end their consumption of cheap, carbon-producing fuels—immediately. So he’s waging an all-out campaign to prevent the biggest and most powerful fossil-fuel companies...
Cascade Engineering: Building Frontline Employee Programs for Triple Bottom Line Impact
Authors: Hu, Jennifer; Lowenberg, Melanie; Chojnacki, Rohini
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2012
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 721 views
Fred Keller stepped down from the podium at a local park in Grand Rapids, Michigan and stared at the Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovation in his hands. Under his watch as Founder and CEO of Cascade Engineering, the manufacturing company had blossomed into a successful and diversified enterprise. Keller considered Cascade’s future strategy: How could his company continue enabling success while maintaining the proper balance across its Triple Bottom Line mission?
Managing Romance in the Office
Authors: Konrad, Alison; Mainiero, Lisa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 884 views
This case provides six real-life examples of office romance. In each case, students have an opportunity to consider how well the parties to the romance have conducted a romance in a business context and what leaders could have done to manage the situation.
Merrimack Tractors and Mowers: LIFO or FIFO?
Authors: Bruns, Sharon; Harmeling, Susan S.; Bruns, William J., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Publishing Brief Cases
Publication Year: 2008
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 1884 views
At Merrimack Tractors and Mowers in 2008, product manufacturing costs are increasing faster than competitors' costs, and as a result earnings are likely to fall below those reported in 2007.
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in the Coming Economy – Expanded Version
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 2089 views
FULL VERSION of the Low Wage Work Teaching Module.
Microsoft: Competing on Talent (A)
Author: Bartlett, Christopher A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Faculty Rating: 
[1 Faculty Rating] 3967 views
Describes the evolution of Microsoft's human resource philosophies, policies, and practices and how they were used as a core of the company's competitive advantage. In particular, the case focuses on how Microsoft has tried to retain its ability to recruit, develop, motivate, and retain first class talent as it grew from a start-up to a global behemoth...
Google's HR Practices: A Strategic Edge?
Authors: John, D.; Girija, P.; Nightingale, F
Product Type: Cases
Source: IBS Research Center
Publication Year: 2008
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 11685 views
This case helps students: (1) to analyze how employees help a company in differentiating itself from its competitors in knowledge-based industries; (2) to analyze how companies attract the best-knowledge workers and retain employees in a competitive environment; (3) to analyze the innovative HR practices and the 'Best Place to Work For' culture at Google; and (4) to analyze the future implications of Google's HR practices in the long run.
Alpha Motors, Ltd.: Integrating Life-Cycle Environmental Concerns into Product Design
Authors: Rothenberg, Sandra; Lenox, Michael; Jordan, Benjamin; Field III, Frank
Product Type: Cases
Source: World Resources Institute
Publication Year: 1998
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 1271 views
Alpha Motors, a subsidiary of a large U.S. automaker, sought a life-cycle analysis (LCA) tool that could help product designers take account of environmental issues when making materials choices. The primary teaching objective of this case...
Handbook of Marketing and Society
Authors: Bloom, Paul; Gundlach, Greg
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: SAGE Publications
Publication Year: 2000
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 1481 views
Marketing scholars have a long history of conducting research on how marketing effects the welfare of society. A significant body of knowledge has developed to look beyond marketing's impact on the corporate bottom line toward the affects of marketing on consumer sovereignty, public health, economic growth, and other aspects of societal welfare...
Southwest Airlines
Author: Kochan, Thomas A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work: Lessons from Leading Cases, Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
Publication Year: 1999
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 30173 views
Southwest Airlines has consistently been successful in terms of profitability, good employee and union relations, and customer satisfaction – at a time when most airline carriers are struggling in all these areas. Central to the company's success is a culture of flexibility, family-orientation, and fun...
Cause-Related Marketing: 3M as a Corporate Sponsor of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
Authors: Johnson, Allison; Dudo, Laurie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 671 views
This case examines the dynamics of the corporate sponsorship relationship and how it benefits both donors and recipients. Specifically discusses how 3M's brand manager for Post-it brand office products can further activate the relationship with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
Understanding the Credit Crisis of 2007 to 2008
Authors: Segel, Arthur I.; Creo, Ben
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 776 views
This note examines the background of the credit crisis of 2007-2008, discusses potential causes of it, and considers its ramifications. The exhibits contain a variety of pertinent data regarding the rise of securitization, debt levels, and typical aspects of financial crises. A new matrix is introduced for thinking about a country's potential economic performance at any point in time.
Amway in China (A, B)
Authors: Tan, David; Tan, Justin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 7021 views
Amway is a large manufacturer of household products that uses the direct selling approach. It has expanded into different markets over the years, most recently the Chinese market. However, the company must look at its strategy after the Chinese government implements regulations on the direct marketing business model...
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] 3852 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...
SG Cowen
Authors: DeLong, Thomas J.; Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 4006 views
This case emphasizes the role of culture in building a successful company as well as the difficulty in transforming a sense of that culture into concrete hiring decisions...
First Green Bank: Bringing Bloom to Desert Landscapes
Authors: Marquis, Christopher; Almandoz, Juan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2013
First Green Bank is a bank start-up in the midst of the financial crisis which aims to promote sustainability while making money as a bank. The case presents an ethical dilemma as it considers a loan to an arms manufacturer…
GlaxoSmithKline $3 Bn Settlement
Authors: Satish, D.; Kumar, B. Sravana
Product Type: Cases
Source: IBS Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2013
Whistleblowers and the US Justice Department alleged that from 1999 through 2010, GlaxoSmithKline was engaged in a fraudulent scheme to deceive and defraud patients, regulators, and federal health programs. The case brings to light the issues and circumstance which led to the lawsuit being filed against GSK and the issues in question in the pharmaceutical industry. The case also brings out the important role played by the whistleblowers in bringing out the unethical practices in the business.
Metropolitan Water Supply Authority: Evaluating Security Risks
Authors: McNett, Jeanne; Whitfield, Ronald
Product Type: Cases
Source: Northeastern University
Publication Year: 2013
The director of a rural metropolitan water supply facility faces a complex risk management challenge. The facility uses chlorine gas in its water treatment, largely because it has determined that chlorine is the most effective treatment available, in terms of safety, cost and environmental impact. However, a security report from the Department of Homeland Security suggests that chlorine, a hazardous chemical, can be used by terrorists, both during its transport to the treatment facility and at the facility itself...
CloudFlare, Inc.: Running Hot?
Authors: Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Godden, Alex
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2013
In July 2012, the cofounders of CloudFlare, a Silicon Valley startup that protects websites and accelerates their traffic, are considering the implications of five employees' resignations over the prior three months. Was this natural attrition for a high-tech venture with a staff of 35 experiencing explosive growth, or were the resignations symptomatic of bigger issues with CloudFlare's culture and management processes?
Say on Pay at The Walt Disney Company
Authors: Gow, Ian D.; Ormazabal, Gaizka
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2013
This case focuses on the lead-up to Disney's 2012 annual meeting where Disney would face a vote on the compensation package of its CEO, Robert Iger...
The Volcker Rule: Financial Crisis, Bailouts, and the Need for Financial Regulation
Authors: Minor, Dylan; Persico, Micola
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2012
In response to the potential collapse of large financial institutions in 2007, the U.S. government committed trillions of dollars to loans, asset purchases, guarantees, direct spending to provide fiscal stimulus, expansionary monetary policy, and bailouts of various private financial institutions. One outcome of the government's response was the proposal to enact into law the Volcker rule, which prohibited banks from engaging in proprietary trading, or trading for their own-not their clients'-benefit. Executives of large banks needed to decide how to respond to this potential change in their business environment...
Volvo Construction Equipment: Managing a Plant Closure (A, B, C)
Authors: Weil, Mary; Mark, Ken
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
The vice-president and general manager of the Canadian operations of a multinational vehicle manufacturer learns that the plant he supervises will be shut down in 15 months…
Kellogg School of Management/Aspen Institute Business and Society Conference: Rethinking ‘Shareholder Value’ and the Purpose of the Corporation
Author:
Product Type: Video Collections; Web Sites
Source: Kellogg School of Management; The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2013
This two-day conference brought together leaders in business and academia to foster dynamic conversations about how corporations can respond to competing pressures to balance corporate social responsibility with shareholder value maximization.
Corporate Governance in Publicly Traded Small Firms: A Study of Canadian Venture Exchange Companies
Authors: Gordon, Irene M.; Hrazdil, Karel; Shapiro, Daniel
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Most evidence regarding the determinants and effects of corporate governance practices is based on large firms. Herein, we explore these issues in the context of small publicly traded Canadian companies. We measure performance by two variables: quality of accounting earnings and financial performance. The results indicate that corporate governance does matter for smaller traded Canadian firms.
Rethinking Underemployment and Overqualification in Organizations: The Not so Ugly Truth
Authors: Thompson, Katina W.; Shea, Thomas H.; Sikora, David M.; Perrewe, Pamela L.; Ferris, Gerald R.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2013
By combining practical experiences from an outplacement firm (Right Management, headed by our second author) and what we have learned from academic research, we herein describe five types of underemployment, discuss widely held assumptions about the issue, and offer suggestions regarding ways that organizations might harness the power of this economy-wide phenomenon.
Texas Contractors Say Playing By The Rules Doesn't Pay
Author: Goodwyn, Wade
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Multimedia
Source: NPR
Publication Year: 2013
Homes in Texas are cheap, but that affordability comes at a price...
Construction Booming In Texas, But Many Workers Pay Dearly
Author: Goodwyn, Wade
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Multimedia
Source: NPR
Publication Year: 2013
Homebuilding and commercial construction may be an economic driver for the state, but it's also an industry riddled with hazards. Years of illegal immigration have pushed wages down, and accidents and wage fraud are common.
Jobs and Social Innovation
Author: Kanter, Rosabeth Moss
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2013
Opportunity has become one of the most perplexing questions of our times. Job creation is an imperative, and it calls for innovation in social institutions.
First Solar: CFRA's Accounting Quality Concerns
Authors: Srinivasan, Suraj; Cornell, Ian McKown
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2013
The case relates to accounting quality analysis conducted by the leading research firm Center for Financial Research and Analysis (CFRA) on companies in the solar industry with a focus on First Solar Inc. The case places students in the shoes of CFRA analysts who need to assess First Solar's accounting quality and business prospects after the company releases its second quarter financial numbers in 2009.
Sustainable Pay: How TSX 60 Companies Compensate Executives for Sustainability Performance
Author: Strandberg, Coro
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Strandberg Consulting
Publication Year: 2013
Sustainability is an important global business driver and is making its way into corporate boardrooms. Mounting evidence shows firms that invest in improved sustainability practices outperform their competitors. There is growing awareness that emerging sustainability risks can have a material impact on company performance. Recognizing these links, companies increasingly integrate sustainability performance objectives and targets into their performance management systems.
The MBA Drive for Social Value: Five Trends Boosting Social Benefit Content at U.S. Business Schools
Authors: Stone, Nan; Stid, Daniel; Ciccarone, Michael; Deshpande, Rahni
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Bridgespan Group
Publication Year: 2009
The number of courses with social benefit content in US MBA programs is rising sharply. In February 2009 The Bridgespan Group contacted 15 graduate business schools known for their academic coursework and attention to social concerns to understand the dynamics impelling its growth. Responses from 10 of the MBA programs showed the inclusion of social benefit content in both core curricula and industry specific electives. Both the percentage of total courses including content relevant to the social and public sectors and the number of courses specifically related to managing social sector organizations more than doubled over the past five years at respondent institutions.
Competitiveness at a Crossroads: Findings of Harvard Business School’s 2012 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
Authors: Porter, Michael E.; Rivkin, Jan W.; Kanter, Rosabeth Moss
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2013
Second in the series of U.S. Competitiveness surveys, Harvard Business School gleaned responses from nearly 7,000 alumni and more than 1,000 members of the general public. The survey not only provides an updated view of the U.S. business environment, but also illuminates specific actions that business leaders and policymakers can take to improve U.S. competitiveness.
He Hasn’t Had It All Either
Author: Winerip, Michael
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2013
A father discusses his experiences as primary caregiver, and how his choices around work affected his family and career trajectory.
Governance Curricula for Employee-Ownership Companies
Author: The Beyster Institute
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Iinstitute
Publication Year: 2013
The Beyster Institute is proud to announce the launch of the complete picture for employee ownership governance education, the Governance Curricula for Employee Ownership Companies.
Employee Ownership, Incentives and Environmental Sustainability
Author: Taylor, Mike
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2013
It is by now common for large corporations to employ several sustainability officers, occasionally in high-ranking positions. A less frequently used tool – employee ownership – may prove a more powerful sustainability over the long term...
Start-ups and Compensating Employees with Equity
Author: Bruner, Mike
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2013
Before running off and launching a start-up business, one of the most important things an entrepreneur must think through is how to best handle equity in the company...
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Author:
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Knopf
Publication Year: 2013
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Author: McMillan, Tracie
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Scribner
Publication Year: 2012
What if you can’t afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn’t escape as she watched the debate about America’s meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food’s true cost—which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters. From the fields of California, a Walmart produce aisle outside of Detroit, and the kitchen of a New York City Applebee’s, McMillan takes us into the heart of America’s meals.
Richard Gagnon at Granston Energy Inc.
Author: Gandz, Jeffrey
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
A procurement officer has got himself into some difficulties by trying to do what he thinks was "the right thing" in being responsive and accommodating for an internal client. In doing so, he has violated a number of "unwritten" ethical expectations of his role. He is wondering what he could have done differently and, specifically, how to handle an upcoming conversation with his chief executive officer about his future with the company.
A Private Boom Amid Detroit’s Public Blight
Author: Davey, Monica
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2013
Private industry is blooming here, even as the city’s finances have descended into wreckage...
The Economy: Under New Ownership
Author: Kelly, Marjorie
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: YES! Magazine
Publication Year: 2013
To make an economy that serves us, we need to own the jobs and the businesses—together. How cooperatives are leading the way to empowered workers and healthy communities...
After the Oil Spills: Transformation at the JIC
Authors: Yemen, Gerry; James, Erika H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2010
What if you were responsible for the day-to-day operations at the Joint Information Center at the Unified Incident Command for the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Suitable for MBA, EMBA, GEMBA, and executive education classes, this case offers insights about leadership in complex situations...
How One Man Tried To Slim Down Big Soda From The Inside
Author: Charles, Dan
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: NPR
Publication Year: 2013
Many big food companies are caught in a dilemma these days. They want to rebrand themselves as merchants of health — Coca-Cola's new anti-obesity ads are just the latest example — but many of their profits still come from products that make nutritionists scowl. If there's one person who symbolizes this tension, it's Derek Yach.
Made in America: Fashion’s Fight to Save the Garment District
Author: Skarda, Erin
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: TIME
Publication Year: 2013
It’s a myth that no one makes anything in America anymore. The heart of the U.S. fashion industry is still beating in midtown Manhattan, where a stretch of factories, warehouses, showrooms and design studios between 35th and 40th Streets and 8th and 9th Avenues are responsible for creating much of the American-designed and manufactured clothing and accessories...
Interview: Matthew Arnold on Steering Sustainability at JP Morgan
Author: Gunther, Marc
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Guardian
Publication Year: 2013
Marc Gunther interviews Matthew Arnold, JP Morgan Chase's head of environmental affairs on asking clients uncomfortable questions and identifying environmental and social risk in fracking and other practices...
Nonmarket Action and the International Counter-Money Laundering Act (H.R. 3886)
Authors: Feddersen, Timothy; Rahimi, Kimia
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2012
The case describes the international problem of money laundering and summarizes U.S. bank regulations aimed at reducing money laundering activities. The introduction of H.R. 3886 in 2000 was one in a series of attempts to formalize U.S. banks' monitoring of their customers. The case can be used to introduce the distributive politics framework for analyzing non-market issues and formulating nonmarket strategies in the context of government institutions.
At Ford, Turnaround Is Job One
Authors: Shein, James; Bell, Matt
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2012
The case opens with the Ford Motor Company seemingly on the path toward bankruptcy. As the case begins, CEO Bill Ford has taken the unusual step of hiring an auto industry outsider as his replacement. Alan Mulally, a thirty-seven-year Boeing veteran and principal architect of the venerable airplane manufacturer's own massive and successful turnaround, wasted little time in getting about the business of remaking Ford...
Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products (A)
Authors: Mukunda, Gautam; DeLong, Thomas J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Gerry Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses. Several months into his tenure, the division paid large retention bonuses to all of its professionals according to a contract negotiated before he joined AIGFP. These bonuses were seen by the public as going to the very people whose mistakes resulted in the need for a bailout in the first place and resulted in an unprecedented storm of public outrage...
Career Mentoring for Women: New Horizons/Expanded Methods
Authors: Dworkin, Terry; Virginia, Maurer; Schipani, Cindy A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Although women make up nearly half of the workforce in the United States, the number of women who hold senior management positions in large U.S. firms continues to be disproportionately low. We demonstrate that the use of strong mentoring programs holds great promise as a way to increase the number of women in senior management roles...
The Business Case For Happiness
Authors: Aaker, Jennifer L.; Leslie, Sara Gaviser; Schifrin, Debra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Many leaders don’t know how much importance to place on happiness, if the concept is even on their radar screen. However, research shows¯time and time again¯that there are bottom line benefits that happiness provides...
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