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Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business
Authors: Bower, Joseph L.; Leonard, Herman B.; Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Harvard Business Press Books
Publication Year: 2011
Income inequality, resource depletion, mass migrations from poor to rich countries, religious fundamentalism--these are just a few of the threats to continuing prosperity. In Capitalism at Risk Harvard Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while governments must play a role, businesses should take the lead. For enterprising companies--whether large multinationals, established regional players, or small start-ups--the current threats to market capitalism present important opportunities.
MBA 9001: Sustainable Development: Interactions between MNCs and International Organizations
Authors: de Lange, Debbie; Sandhu, Sukhbir; Young, Susan L.; Mitchell, Shelley; Benn, Suzanne; Banerjee, Bobby
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Teaching Sustainability Professional Development Workshop, Academy of Management 2011
Publication Year: 2011
Sustainable development in emerging economies is of worldwide concern to many different stakeholders due to the global impacts that billions of people will collectively have and are having on climate change, energy supplies, natural resources (renewable and nonrenewable), employment conditions, working standards, and other critical issues. However, given the lack of a global governance framework for multinational corporations (MNCs), international organizations are important to ensure that MNCs operate in a sustainable way. International organizations can provide policy and partnering solutions that promote multiple actors’ interests. They can also act as arbiters and standards setting bodies.
Special Issue: Sustainability and Consumption
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Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Sustainability
Publication Year: 2011
It is clear that our current consumption patterns are producing environmental degradation that imperils future generations. More prudent resource consumption must replace over-consumption in the wealthier states and accompany growing consumption in the developing states. While these principles are widely-acknowledged, the path to a more sustainable future is still unclear. This special issue contains manuscripts that highlight research at the intersection of consumption and sustainability.
ABB's Hydropower Sustainability Dilemma
Authors: Busch, Timo; Dessain, Vincent; McCarthy, Kathleen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Adam Roscoe, head of sustainability at ABB Group, had to evaluate the content and the business consequences of a letter written by the non-profit organization International Rivers. The letter discussed the alleged violations of sustainability criteria when building the Nam Theun 2 dam in Laos. Roscoe needed to assess what implications the letter had for ABB.
Airport Express Metro Line: Infrastructure Project Financing and Implementation Through Public Private Partnership
Authors: Chaudhary, Hukam Singh; Kumar, Sushil; Aggarwal, Vijay; Bajaj, Gita
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The case describes the delivery of an urban public transportation project through a public private partnership in Delhi. In the recent past in India, the public private partnership model of infrastructure development had emerged as a dominant model due to its certain desirable characteristics.
Community Values and Land Use Decisions
Author: Nadler, Judy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 2011
The town of Weldon is roiled by controversy over the opening of a new "Vegas-style" restaurant featuring scantily dressed waitresses, in this fictionalized case study by Center Senior Fellow in government Ethics Judy Nadler. How should the city decide whether to let the restaurant move in?
Manchester Bidwell Corporation: The Replication Question
Authors: Stuart, Toby; Hardymon, G. Felda; Heskett, James L.; Leamon, Ann
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Bill Strickland, CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, must decide the best way to replicate his innovative, award-winning approach to curing poverty.
Manchester Bidwell Corp. (A, B)
Author: Heskett, James L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
The head of Manchester Bidwell Corp. ponders what it will take to replicate its social services in 100 cities across North America and internationally...
SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool
Authors: Khaire, Mukti; McGinn, Kathleen L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. The legal and financial implications of such a move aside, it is not clear that STFC would be able to withstand the changes such a transformation would entail. Most importantly, would an organization accustomed to taking decisions based solely on social benefit criteria be able to adjust to a for-profit mentality? And, would customers accept the change?
2b Design: A Creative Social Business in Lebanon
Authors: Jamali, Dima; Tarazi, Alexandra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
2b Design’s mission was eloquently articulated as to “restore the unseen beauty of the broken.” By the broken, it referred to the Middle East’s disappearing traditional heritage and to those people whose socioeconomic status or disabilities hindered them from leading a decent life.
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