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Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Author: Kara, Siddharth
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2010
Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. In this book, the author provides a riveting account of his journey into this unconscionable industry, sharing the moving stories of its victims and revealing the shocking conditions of their exploitation. He draws on his background in finance, economics, and law to provide the first ever business analysis of contemporary slavery worldwide, focusing on its most profitable and barbaric form: sex trafficking.
TerraCycle
Authors: Lepoutre, Jan; Read, Stuart; Margery, Philippe
Product Type: Cases
Source: Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School; IMD
Publication Year: 2012
In 2001 Tom Szaky, a Princeton freshman, founded TerraCycle in the hope of starting an eco-capitalist company built on waste – worm waste to be exact. By 2011 Tom had successfully built TerraCycle into an icon for environmental sustainability that was projecting US$16 million in annual revenues. However, sustained profits continued to elude the company, and though Tom was committed to eliminating waste, he was beginning to question whether TerraCycle had the right business model to achieve the triple bottom line...
Phase Separation Solutions (PS2): The China Question
Authors: Peng, George; Beamish, Paul W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business; Paul J. Hill School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
A small high-tech company is simultaneously faced with two separate but significant growth opportunities in China. The case is intended for use in strategy, international business or entrepreneurship courses.
The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
Authors: Bolkovac, Kathryn; Lynn, Cari
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Year: 2011
When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. The lack of proper training provided sounded the first alarm bell, but once she arrived in Sarajevo, she found out that things were a lot worse.
Monsanto
Authors: Bell, David E.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Shelman, Mary
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Monsanto has led the effort to bring biotechnology to bear on food production. Through some management missteps and consumer resistance the company had difficulties in its early years. But since Hugh Grant became CEO the picture has brightened with widespread adoption of the company's products. This case focuses on the company's product pipeline and the galvanizing effect of the CEO's promise to substantially improve global food production by 2030.
WaterHealth International: Providing Safe Drinking Water to the Bottom of the Pyramid Consumers
Authors: Faheem, Hadiya; Purkayastha, Debapratim
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2010
This case study is about Irvine, California-based WaterHealth International Inc., a social purpose for-profit venture in the safe water sector, focused on serving the traditionally underserved "Bottom of the Pyramid" segment. The company’s aim was to ensure increasing returns for the company and its investors while achieving a social impact.
Beyond the Part Time Partner: A Part Time Law Firm?
Authors: Kochan, Thomas A.; Harrington, Mona; Miller, Brendan
Product Type: Cases
Source: MIT Workplace Center
Publication Year: 2003
They set out to create a new type of firm: one focused on providing better value to clients and more responsibility and flexibility for their attorneys. Eight years later, there is widespread belief at SWM that this is exactly what they have achieved.
The Market and the Social Economy: Can the Twain Meet?
Author: Cheng, Willie
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Social Space, Lien Centre for Social Innovation, Singapore Management University
Publication Year: 2009
Can the different paradigms of the market and social economy be reconciled? Willie Cheng suggests that the current remaking of both economies offers an invaluable opportunity.
Managing an Employee-Owned Company. It's Different. It's Better.
Author: Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2010
Ask Don about what it's like to run a company where the employees are stockholders, and he can wax warm and fuzzy.
Tata Consultancy Services
Authors: Deshpande, Rohit; Schulman, Seth
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
Now, he was about to steer TCS through an initial public offering--the largest ever by a private Indian company.
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