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Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
Author: Bogle, John C.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wiley
Publication Year: 2008
John C. Bogle, the legendary founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund–Enough, offers his unparalleled insights on money, the values we should emulate in our business and professional callings, and what we should consider as the true treasures in our lives.
Podcast: Fill Rooms With Committed Teachers
Author: Kopp, Wendy
Product Type: Multimedia; Interviews
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Founder Wendy Kopp shares why and how she started Teach for America in 1980.
Social Responsibility in Business
Author: Lele, Shreevardhan
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Maryland
Publication Year: 2008
Course Objectives:
1.Analyze issues at the intersection of business and society using there types of criteria: economic, legal and ethical.
2.Understand and use frameworks for moral reasoning.
3.Understand the variety of values and institutions (or practices, or arrangements, or mechanisms) that are, and can be, used in making managerial decisions.
4.Understand managerial agency, and to view leadership as the exercise of managerial agency to change values and institutions.
5.View business management as a profession, and to develop an identity as a member of this profession in a global society.
6.Develop a personal set of aspirational values; and to identify practices that will facilitate the promotion of those aspirational values.
Green Fields Investments: Evaluating Biofuels Investment Options
Authors: Kiesling, Lynne; Hunnewell, Jeremy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2008
Green Fields Investments is a socially responsible investment firm. The student is faced with the management decision of whether or not to invest in a new ethanol plant being built.
Sustainability at Millipore
Authors: Toffel, Michael W.; Lee, Katharine
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company.
Butterflies of Costa Rica
Author: Ickis, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network
Publication Year: 2008
In July 2007 Joris Brinckerhoff, founder and owner of Costa Rica Entomological Supplies (CRES), must decide whether to accept an offer from RBA, a publications firm in Barcelona, Spain, to sell mounted butterflies or "deadstock" as part of RBA's "collectibles" program for schoolchildren.
Google's Way - Don't Be Evil
Authors: Bansal, Pratima; Le Ber, Marlene
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Wall Street's darling, Google Inc., offered more than a pretty financial picture. Poverty, communicable diseases and climate change - some of the world's largest problems - were also key interests of Google's cofounders. By applying innovation and significant resources, Google's cofounders hoped that their efforts in these areas would one day eclipse Google itself in worldwide impact.
The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: When It All Comes Together
Authors: Wirtenberg, Jeana; Russell, William G. ; Lipsky, David
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source:
Publication Year: 2008
Today, managers and leaders of organizations, in both the private sector and civil society, are being challenged as never before to find ways to play a proactive role in addressing the concerns of sustainable development.
Teaching Business at a Liberal Arts College
Author: Nesteruk, Jeffrey
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Publication Year: 2008
Bringing business education and the liberal arts into close proximity, as happens at many small liberal arts colleges today, can unsettle the assumptions of each. But if done well there are tremendous benefits, certainly to business education and, surprisingly to many, also to the liberal arts. The key to a business program flourishing at a liberal arts college is threefold: blending, bridging, and building...
Recipe for Success: A Pinch of Social Activism, a Teaspoon of Environmental Consciousness and Lots of Good Cuisine
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2008
Food, Fun and Social Activism - the blinking words flashing across the website of White Dog cafe more than sum up its philosophy- they define the life spirit flowing through the café’s business model.
De-Departmentalizing the B-School
Author: Heggen, James
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Publication Year: 2008
Villanova University’s undergraduate business school curriculum, starting this fall, is designed on the theory that you don’t need an individual course in everything.
The 21st-Century MBA
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2008
Business schools are now at a crossroads. Critics from outside and, more vociferously, inside the academy are taking aim at the way these schools train leaders
Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success
Authors: Lennick, Doug; Kiel, Fred
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wharton School Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
Only leaders with strong moral intelligence can build the trust and commitment that are the foundation of truly great businesses.
MAS Holdings: Leveraging Corporate Responsibility
Authors: Paavola, N; Chattopadhyay, A
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2008
This case helps students to discuss the use of corporate responsibility programs in building a brand. It also allows for a discussion of ingredient branding in a B2B (business-to-business) context and brand building by emerging market firms that are small and resource strapped.
Shift Inc. - Providing the Power to Shift the Well-Being of Teenage Girls
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2008
Enhancing the physical health, body image and self-esteem of teenage girls is the spirit behind Shift Inc.
IBM's Decade of Transformation: Uniting Vision and Values
Authors: Applegate, Lynda M.; Heckscher, Charles; Michael, Boniface; Collins, Elizabeth
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
As he prepared for the December 2006 meeting with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt, Pierre Comte faced some difficult decisions. Only eight months into his job as chief marketing officer of GE’s Transportation business, Comte would be presenting Transportation’s recommendations on some of the most visible growth initiatives in its locomotive business...
Ujjivan: A Microfinance Institution at a Crossroads (A, B)
Authors: Narayanan, V.G.; Freed, Pamela
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Samit Ghosh, the CEO and founder of Ujjivan, wants to grow his business rapidly and become financially sustainable, but he's struggling with staff fraud, high costs, and how to stay true to Ujjivan's mission of poverty alleviation, while simultaneously reaching out to higher-income customers.
BestDoctors, Inc.
Author: Herzlinger, Regina E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Upon learning the news of a critical illness, patients and their families are shocked, saddened, fearful, and angry all at once. And just as soon as they catch their collective breath, they all ask the same question - a question that has the potential to infuse hope into darkness and order into emotional chaos - "What do we do next?" They need health care information. Greg Smith, a cancer survivor, and Steve Naifeh founded BestDoctors Inc. to link health care consumers to the medical knowledge they need to make the best health care choices for themselves and their loved ones...
Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO
Authors: Chu, Michael; Garcia-Cuellar, Regina
Product Type: Cases
Source: HBSP
Publication Year: 2008
This case exposes students to the leading edge of microfinance while providing the basis for analysis of the key success factors of a business model serving low-income populations and examining which complement or destroy the creation of social value.
Transcendent Leadership
Authors: Crossan, Mary M.; Mazutis, Daina
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2008
Illustrates the vast leadership literature and describe the challenges of leadership in our changing society. Suggestions are provided as to how to integrate various methods to optimize leadership.
Abbott and the AIDS Crisis (A, B, C)
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
This case details the evolution of the AIDS crisis, Abbott Laboratories' HIV/AIDS drug production, and the company’s efforts--in 1999--to find other ways to battle HIV/AIDS globally.
Started as Crew (A, B, C): Jan Fields and McDonald's
Authors: Mead, Jenny; Werhane, Patricia H.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
This case tells the story of Jan Fields, who started at McDonald’s making french fries and found herself 20 years later serving as executive vice president and chief operations officer at McDonald’s USA.
Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good
Author: Laszlo, Chris
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Stanford Business Books
Publication Year: 2008
In "Sustainable Value," Chris Laszlo illustrates how the competitive strategies of some of the world's largest businesses are changing as their leaders begin to take on a number of the world's most important social, environmental, and economic issues.
Saying No to Tobacco Money
Author: Gau, George W
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: BusinessWeek.com
Publication Year: 2008
How the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin decided to put a halt to donations derived from the sale of a product that's dangerous to consumer health
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
Author: Wei-Skillern, Jane
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
The truth is that many non-profit efforts, despite the best intentions, have not solved the issues they target, says Harvard Business School professor Jane Wei-Skillern.
The Greening of Wal-Mart
Authors: Plambeck, Erica L.; Denend, Lyn
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2008
For much of its history, Wal-Mart's corporate management team toiled inside its "Bentonville Bubble," narrowly focused on operational efficiency, growth, and profits. But now the world's largest retailer has widened its sights, building networks of employees, nonprofits, government agencies, and suppliers to "green" its supply chains. Here's how and why the world's largest retailer is using a network approach to decrease its environmental footprint-and to increase its profitability.
CSR Jobs Report
Authors: Net Impact; Ellen Weinreb CSR Recruiting
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Net Impact and Ellen Weinreb CSR Recruiting
Publication Year: 2008
Net Impact and Ellen Weinreb CSR Recruiting analyzed 1,255 CSR job openings posted between January 2004 and June 2007. The goal of this analysis is to inform MBAs and companies about the CSR jobs market.
In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First
Authors: Datar, Srikant M. ; Yuthas, Kristi
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2008
Microfinance may be one of the world's most powerful new solutions to poverty, as well as to the wars, diseases, and suffering that poverty ignites.
If it works.
Google Offers a Map for Its Philanthropy
Author: Rubin, Harriet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2008
Google may be one of America's 10 richest corporations as measured by market value, but its budget for philanthropy is minuscule compared with the $70 billion of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Still, Google's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, expressed a hope back in 2004 that “someday this institution may eclipse Google itself in terms of overall world impact.” What it lacks in size, though, Google.org may make up in cachet.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Going Global
Author: The Economist
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist Special Report
Publication Year: 2008
The lead on CSR could shift from the rich world to the big emerging markets, each with its own traditions and priorities.
Just Good Business
Author: The Economist
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist Special Report
Publication Year: 2008
Corporate social responsibility, once a do-gooding sideshow, is now seen as mainstream. But as yet too few companies are doing it well, says Daniel Franklin.
Ethical capitalism: How good should your business be?
Author: The Economist
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist Special Report
Publication Year: 2008
How wonderful to think that you can make money and save the planet at the same time. “Doing well by doing good” has become a popular business mantra: the phrase conjures up a Panglossian best-of-all-possible-worlds, the idea that firms can be successful by acting in the broader interests of society as a whole even while they satisfy the narrow interests of shareholders.
Corporate Social Responsibility: A Stitch in Time
Author: The Economist
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist Special Report
Publication Year: 2008
Business leaders embrace corporate responsibility for a number of reasons. A few are lured by the glamour of making pledges at the Clinton Global Initiative. For some, though, it is public embarrassment and lawsuits that concentrate the mind.
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Next Question
Author: The Economist
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist Special Report
Publication Year: 2008
“The theological question—should there be CSR?—is so irrelevant today,” says John Ruggie of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. “Companies are doing it. It's one of the social pressures they've absorbed.”
Make Green Delicious: Sustainability at Jamie Kennedy Kitchens
Authors: Branzei, Oana; Leithwood, Melissa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The case illustrates the challenges of growing sustainably by tracking the 30-year journey of a quintessentially Canadian chef, environmental champion, and strong advocate of slow food, seasonality, local sourcing and artisan food production.
More Than Just Tugging at the Heartstrings
Author: Park, B. Joon
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Social Space, Lien Centre for Social Innovation, Singapore Management University
Publication Year: 2008
If you are a non-profit organisation and thinking about starting a social enterprise in Singapore, B. Joon Park has some start-up tips.
Sustainability Management at Nau Inc
Authors: Gupta, V.; Perepu, I.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2008
The case examines the sustainability practices of the US-based apparel manufacturer Nau Inc. Nau's business model adequately addressed the social and environmental aspects of the triple bottomline. However, the economic viability of the model is yet to be proved.
Azim Hasham Premji's Value-Based Leadership
Authors: Gupta, V.; Pawar, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2008
In July 2007, BusinessWeek nominated Azim Hasham Premji, the Chairman of Wipro, as one of the top 30 all time great entrepreneurs in the world. The case discusses the leadership qualities of Premji.
Entrepreneurship Education And Social Justice
Authors: Kourilsky, M.; Walstad, W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Senate Hall Academic Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
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It is the purpose of this paper to show that not only are the goals of social justice and entrepreneurship education capable of simultaneous realization, but also to argue that entrepreneurship education is a viable and even potent economic access strategy for enabling a social justice agenda.
Wal-Mart: Should It Change? Can It Change?
Authors: Nie, W.; Leger, K.
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD - International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2008
In this case we start off by exploring the factors that made Wal-Mart the company it is today.
IKEA: Past, Present, and Future
Authors: Denison, D.; Lief, C
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD - International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2008
Ingvar Kamprad's childhood experiences informed his approach not only to furniture retailing, but more broadly to life.
Ouimet-Tomasso Inc: An Experiment in Secular Spirituality
Authors: Swiercz, P.; Hagmann, L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Case Method Institute
Publication Year: 2008
Ouimet-Tomasso is one of Canada's largest and most successful privately-owned frozen food processing companies.
Developing Human Resource Management Through Human Capital Culture: 'One Team, Infinite Solutions' in IES Ltd
Authors: Maxwell, G.; Findlay, L.; McLean, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Glasgow Caledonian University
Publication Year: 2008
This real life case study investigates organizational culture in a rapidly expanding and knowledge-intensive smaller business, namely Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) Limited.
Video: Corporation 20/20
Author: Corporation 2020
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Corporation 20/20
Publication Year: 2008
A one hour video summary of the Summit on the Future of the Corporation.
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] 11689 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.
Seva Café: Food for the Soul
Authors: Gopalkrishnan, C; Patel, Anar
Product Type: Cases
Source: Institute of Management, Nirma University of Science & Technology
Publication Year: 2008
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 1240 views
Seva Café, a unique social experiment promoted by Manav Sadhana and Gramshree, Civil Society Organizations working for social and economic upliftment in Gujarat, India, operated a small restaurant... By June 2007, the Café achieved financial break-even but the questions of sustainability and growth, among other things, of this unique experiment was still the uppermost concerns of the promoters.
Kiva
Authors: Saloner, Garth; Coates, Bethany
Product Type: Cases; Web Sites
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
By 2007, Kiva had gone through a rapid growth phase. The case recounts the debut of the first online person-to-person microfinance organization and looks at the founders' plan for future development.
Global Corporate Citizenship
Author: Schwab, Klaus
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Foreign Affairs
Publication Year: 2008
Global corporate citizenship means that companies must not only be engaged with stakeholders but be stakeholders themselves alongside governments and civil society. Since companies depend on global development, which in turn relies on stability and increased prosperity, it is in their direct interest to help improve the state of the world.
Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts
Author:
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2008
Marc Epstein has produced the ultimate "how-to-do-it" guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants, and anyone else with an interest in actually making sustainability work for organizations. Whether motivated by concern for society and the environment, government regulation, stakeholder pressures, or economic profit, managers and strategists need to continue making significant changes to more effectively manage their social, economic, and environmental impacts - and to remain competitive.
Market-Based Strategies Serving Low-Income Populations
Author: Budinich, Valeria
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Asoka Innovators for the Public
Publication Year: 2008
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