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Building Consensus: History and Lessons from the Mesa de Diálogo y Consenso CAO-Cajamarca, Peru: Monograph 1 - The Formation and First Steps of the MESA
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Product Type: Cases
Source: The Office of the Compliance/Advisor Ombudsman (CAO)
Publication Year: 2007
This monograph is divided into two chapters. The first covers the history and context of the mine and the community-mine relationship, the initial complaints filed with the CAO, and a description of the mercury spill and its immediate aftermath. The second explores the major challenges that the Mesa and the CAO team confronted at various stages of the Mesa’s early evolution and the actions taken to overcome these challenges. It also presents lessons learned, which are drawn from both the successes and shortcomings of the Mesa.
SEE Risk Briefing - Indigenous Rights: Risks & Opportunities
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Product Type: Cases
Source: The Centre for Australian Ethical Research (CAER)
Publication Year: 2007
This briefing seeks to identify the risks and opportunities faced by companies with respect to managing indigenous rights issues and the ways in which these can materialise in the short to medium term for companies involved in resource sectors. The briefing also examines the policies and strategies relating to indigenous peoples adopted by seven companies operating in a range of sectors identified as high risk by EIRIS. Their management response is assessed against EIRIS indicators to determine the extent to which these risks are being mitigated.
Corporate Citizenship and Sustainable Community Development: Fostering Multi-Sector Collaboration in Magadi Division in Kenya
Author: Muthuri, Judy N.
Product Type: Cases
Source: International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, UK
Publication Year: 2007
This paper explores Magadi Soda Company’s efforts to initiate a multi-sector collaboration to facilitate sustainable community development in Magadi division in Kenya.
Embedding Human Rights in Business Practice II
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Product Type: Cases
Source: United Nations Global Compact
Publication Year: 2007
This publication has been produced in the context of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and features 20 case studies from Global Compact signatories around the world outlining policies and practices to implement human rights within their own operations and spheres of influence.
Expanding Economic Opportunity: The Role of Large Firms
Author: Jenkins, Beth
Product Type: Cases
Source: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Publication Year: 2007
This report explores four key strategies companies can use to expand economic opportunity...
The Role of the Extractive Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity
Authors: Wise, Holly; Shtylla, Sokol
Product Type: Cases
Source: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Publication Year: 2007
This report explores four key strategies companies can use to expand economic opportunity: 1) creating inclusive business models; 2) developing human capital; 3) building institutional capacity; and 4) helping to optimize the "Rules of the Game."
Global Water Tool
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Product Type: Web Sites
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2007
The WBCSD’s Global Water Tool, launched at World Water Week 2007 in Stockholm and updated in 2009 for the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul, is a free and easy-to-use tool for companies and organizations to map their water use and assess risks relative to their global operations and supply chains.
The People's IPO: Lower-income patrons of Market Creek Plaza can now invest in the shopping center
Author: Stuhldreher, Anne
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2007
Most IPOs target high-net-worth people. This one is aimed at area residents whose median income is $35,000.
Employee Financial Participation in the New Member States
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Publication Year: 2007
This report looks at the current situation in relation to employee financial participation (EFP) and its recent developments in the new Member States (NMS) of the EU: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
The Consumer Culture of Poverty
Authors: Hill, Ronald Paul; Gaines, Jeannie
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Publication Year: 2007
The purpose of this article is to bring a subset of this scholarship together in order to examine the concept and reality of the consumer culture of poverty as derived from ethnographic and qualitative investigations of various subpopulations of poor American consumers.
Social Entrepreneurship - The Alicia Polak Way
Authors: Gupta, V; Perepu, I.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR
Publication Year: 2007
The case discusses the social entrepreneurship initiatives by Alicia Polak in South Africa. Alicia Polak, who was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch and Company in New York, started a small business venture in the slums of South Africa. The venture was not started as a charity but as a profit generating business. With very little initial investment, Alicia employed women from the neighborhood and taught them how to make high-end cookies, and that was the beginning of Khayelitsha Cookie Company (KCC). She marketed the cookies in hotels and to the tourists who visited South Africa. The cookies soon gained popularity, and she planned to replicate this model in other developing and underdeveloped countries. KCC was expected to break even by the beginning of the year 2007, and the cookies were being marketed in the US and European countries.
Blended Value Investing
Authors: Harold, Jacob; Spitzer, Joshua; Emerson, Jed
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Oxford: The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School
Publication Year: 2007
The Narrabundah Long Stay Caravan Park (A, B)
Author: Aulich, C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Australia and New Zealand School of Government
Publication Year: 2007
In May 2006, Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Chief Minister Jon Stanhope confronted a difficult problem.
Troubled Waters: Pearl Farming in Port Stephens (A, B, C)
Authors: Padula, M.; Alford, J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Australia and New Zealand School of Government
Publication Year: 2007
This case illustrates the complex issues involved in policy development and decision making where a community is strongly opposed to economic development and where wildlife and the environment are also seen as economic assets.
Diligent Tanzania LTD
Authors: Oyevaar, Martin; Van Middelkoop, Daniël
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
The case Diligent Tanzania Ltd. offers higher vocational education students the possibility to work on business administration competencies, through which they address important global issues. The students become familiar with the backgrounds of climate change and issues concerning poverty and development. Furthermore, the possibilities and threats to a company like Diligent, which tries to practice sustainable international enterprising, are considered.
Taking Banking to the Unbanked: Wizzit (A, B, C)
Authors: Mitchell, C.; Heil, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of the Witwatersrand
Publication Year: 2007
This is a three-case series that illustrates efforts to profitably provide banking services to the "unbanked" of South Africa.
DVD: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
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Product Type: Multimedia
Source: The Power of Community
Publication Year: 2007
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil is a project of The Community Solution, a non-profit organization that designs and teaches low-energy solutions to the current unsustainable, fossil fuel based, industrialized, and centralized way of living. ..
The William Davidson Institute
Author: The William Davidson Institute
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan
Publication Year: 2007
The William Davidson Institute is a non-profit, independent, research and educational institute dedicated to developing and disseminating expertise on issues affecting firms in transition economies...
Weighing the Risks in South American Basic Materials
Authors: Gurlit, Wieland; Mencarini, Eduardo; Montealto, Ricardo
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Multinational companies remain wary of political and macroeconomic risk in Latin America. Yet the region is full of attractive opportunities...
Corporations and Communities
Author: Appell, Michael
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Publication Year: 2007
Through case studies and meetings with corporate decision makers, this course explores shifting strategies and developing programs in the rapidly changing area of corporate social responsibility.
Green Building Research Funding: An Assessment of Current Activity in the United States
Author: Baum, Mara
Product Type: Cases
Source: U.S. Green Building Council
Publication Year: 2007
This report is intended to aid the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Research Committee's effort to create a national green building research agenda identifying critical gaps in scientific and technical information needed to drive market transformation towards the adoption and evolution of sustainable building design, construction and operations practices in the United States. It outlines recent green building research and tracks federal, state and trade association contributions to green building research funding...
Davis Langdon: The Cost & Benefit of Achieving Green Buildings (Australia)
Author: Langdon, Davis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Davis Langdon
Publication Year: 2007
In this report, the second in a series of David Langdon's insights into sustainability, we investigate the cost and benefit of achieving green buildings...
Hybrid Value Chains: Social Innovations and Development of the Small Farmer Irrigation Market in Mexico
Authors: Budinich, Valeria; Manno-Reott, Kimberly; Schmidt, Stephanie
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Web Sites
Source: Ashoka Innovators for the Public
Publication Year: 2007
Businesses, particularly those whose products and services address basic human needs such as water, housing and health, can enter low-income markets more effectively and with deeper social impact through partnerships...
Methanex: Developing an Integrated Strategy
Authors: Egri, C; Papania, Lisa; Shapiro, Daniel
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
Methanex, the world's largest methanol producer, has grown impressively over the last decade, enabling the company to generously reward its shareholders. Methanex has set itself apart by following a cost leadership strategy as well as by being a champion of responsible care -- the chemical industry's standard in environmental and social responsibility. It is a code of practice relatively unknown outside of North America, especially in many of the developing countries where Methanex operates
The Grameen Bank: Credit as a Human Right
Authors: Viassa Monteiro, E; Janeiro Dias, A
Product Type: Cases
Source: AESE - Escola de Direccao e Negocios
Publication Year: 2007
The case contains a brief description of the Grameen Bank's launch, as an answer to an urgent need of the poor population which couldn't find a way of obtaining loans for the acquisition of raw material to be worked on and sold later.
Rights-Based Approaches to Development
Author: Green, Maria
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Publication Year: 2006
This course relates to the field of sustainable development as follows: It examines the role that the internationally recognized rights of individuals can play in the development process.
GVM Exploration Limited
Authors: Rouse, Michael J.; Jiang, Guo-Liang Frank
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
GVM Exploration Limited's (GVM) $2 million environmental assessment project at Grizzly Valley was disrupted by a road blockade set up by a small group of local First Nation people. How GVM handled this situation would not only affect the progress of the Grizzly Valley project but also other ongoing projects.
One Buyer at a Time
Author: Riordan, James T.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2006
International development organizations spend lots of money and effort building the capacity of small businesses. Yet they often fail to ask whether people want the businesses' goods and services. As these stories from Peru show, successful programs start with real buyers who are willing to buy real products.
Rwanda and the Thousand Hills Coffee Co.
Authors: Jones, Geoffrey G.; McDonald, Michelle Craig
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
The Thousand Hills Coffee Co. is looking for ways to market Rwandan coffee in the wake of the country's economic and civil crisis. The case describes the various options open to coffee producers, including recartelization, diversification, fair trade, and selling to boutique markets.
CASE STUDY: A pioneer out of necessity
Author: Jack, Andrew
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Financial Times
Publication Year: 2006
As mining manager at Debswana, a partnership company between De Beers and the Botswana government, James Kirby saw the economic as well as the human costs of HIV, with the stress of coping with bereavement and the constant need to find, hire and train skilled workers to replace those who died, became incapacitated or took time off work because of illness.
A Grassroots Approach to Emerging-Market Consumers
Author: Beshouri, Christopher P.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Mckinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2006
By tapping into local networks, companies can serve low-income markets profitably, delivering significant value to shareholders while creating the essential market infrastructure for economic development in the neediest communities...
The Company That Anticipated History
Author: Graham, Ann
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2006
Access to electricity is always an important first step up the economic ladder. In South Africa, Eskom Holdings Ltd. provides that first step. A government-owned corporation headquartered in the Johannesburg suburb of Sandton, Eskom generates 95 percent of the country's electricity. The company's early embrace of "electricity for all" (as the policy is called) allowed the company to play a leadership role early on in the social transformation of South Africa...
Three Guineas Fund
Authors: Lagenfeld, Stephanie; Ramfelt, Lena; Kosnik, Thomas J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Publication Year: 2006
In 1997, Cate Muther, of Three Guineas Fund and Jim Robbins, of Business Cluster Development, both very successful entrepreneurs, established the Women's Technology Cluster (WTC) in response to the National Foundation of Women Business Owners' determination that only 1% of nearly 8 million women-owned businesses in the United States received venture capital financing.
Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa
Authors: Segel, Arthur I.; Retsinas, Nicolas P.; Hioe, Nelson
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Can partnerships with private, for-profit real estate companies be carried out without undermining the mission of Habitat to focus on the very poor? This case illustrates how partnerships can facilitate real estate investments in emerging markets.
Going with the Flow
Author: Levs, Melanie Lasoff
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Pink Magazine
Publication Year: 2006
Why does a corporate behemoth like Coke care about water in small communities? The company recognizes that taking on the ills of the world also can benefit the bottom line, says Dan Vermeer, Coke's director of global water partnerships...
Patrimonio Hoy
Authors: Segel, Arthur I.; Chu, Michael; Herrero, Gustavo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Patrimonio Hoy, a program targeting the housing needs of low-income families launched by CEMEX, a major Mexican corporation and a leading global cement company, has gone from a market research project to a highly visible initiative in 22 cities and has earned public recognition.
Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry
Authors: Abdelal, Rawi; Maurer, Noel; Musacchio, Aldo; Abrami, Regina M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few years.
Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Authors: Jones, Geoffrey G.; Lefort, Alexis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
There are higher rates of female entrepreneurship in developing countries than developed countries, but necessity is often the main driver in lower income countries. Explores the challenges facing women arising from societal inequality, including lack of educational provision, and difficulties in securing funding.
Integrated Packaging Corp. (A, B, C)
Authors: Leonard, Herman B.; Watson, Orson
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Using his understanding of inner-city life, Fuller employed discipline-based strategies to empower his employees and turn the failing plants into engines of community revitalization. Examines entrepreneurial company revitalization strategies in a difficult community setting, with a double bottom line.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Globalisation: An Action Plan for Business
Author: Cramer, Jacqueline
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Greenleaf Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
This book offers concrete guidelines, step-by-step plans and practical examples on how to manage CSR in global business operations. Based on the experiences of 20 diverse, large, medium and small companies the book constitutes a guidebook and action plan to enable companies of all sizes to manage risk and seek out opportunities for engagement in their overseas operations...
Sustainable Development in Business
Author: Cohen, David
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: UBC, Sauder School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
A seminar course that focuses on understanding Sustainable Development and the reshaping a business to operate profitably with a triple bottom line. It will foster an understanding of the dynamic tensions inherent in sustainable development and how it impacts business from strategic development to day to day operations.
Macro Credit
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist
Publication Year: 2006
For many of the supporters of Muhammad Yunus and the institution he created, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, the announcement that the two will share a Nobel peace prize is long overdue—the only surprise is that it was so long in coming. The selection committee said the prize was for developing what "had appeared to be an impossible idea", namely loans to people who lack collateral...
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...
China: Building “Capitalism with Socialist Characteristics”
Authors: Spar, Debora; Oi, Jean; Bebenek, Chris
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Describes China's phenomenal development from a poor, communist country to a global powerhouse.
Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China
Authors: Bradley, Richard; Yang, Ming
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: IEA
Publication Year: 2006
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate, with the experience of OECD, how China can go forward with concrete activities and actions to improve energy efficiency. With a quantitative case study using standby power as an example, we show how China (and Shanghai) will save electricity and capital investment in the power sector.
Greening America's Schools: Costs & Benefits
Author: Kats, Gregory
Product Type: Cases
Source: A Capital E Report
Publication Year: 2006
This report is intended to answer this fundamental question: how much more do green schools cost, and is greening schools cost effective?...
Revenue Flow and Human Rights
Authors: Steger, U.; Ionescu-Somers, Aileen
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD - International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2006
The case describes Shell's evolution within the context of sensitive human rights issues related to oil exploration and exploitation in Nigeria. Given that much of the revenue from Nigerian oil resources was being ‘siphoned' off by corrupt state governors, the case focuses on issues relevant to government transparency and corruption.
A Closer Look at Business Education: Social Entrepreneurship
Author: Leimsider, Rich
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2006
Entrepreneurs are innovative, highly-motivated, and critical thinkers. When these attributes are combined with the drive to solve social problems, a Social Entrepreneur is born. Although academics and lay observers generally agree what a social entrepreneur is, there is still ambiguity surrounding the definition of a “social enterprise..."
Video: Birdsong & Coffee: A Wake Up Call
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Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Old Dog Documentaries
Publication Year: 2006
Coffee drinkers will be astonished to learn that they hold in their hands the fate of farm families, farming communities, and entire ecosystems in coffee-growing regions like Costa Rica. In this film we hear from experts and students, from coffee lovers and bird lovers, and-most importantly-from coffee farmers themselves. We learn how their lives and ours are inextricably linked, economically and environmentally...
The Innovation Sandbox
Author: Prahalad, C.K.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2006
To create an impossibly low-cost, high-quality new business model, start by cultivating constraints...
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