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Burt's Bees
Authors: Wathieu, Luc R.; Winig, Laura
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This case discusses the growth problems associated with Burt's Bee's anti-commercial, pro-consumer positioning. More generally, to discuss managing growth, pricing, distribution, branding, entrepreneurship, and product development inspired by consumer trends.
UBS and Climate Change: Warming Up to Global Action?
Authors: Oberholzer-Gee, Felix; Reinhardt, Forest; Raabe, Elizabeth A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
The teaching purpose of this case is to decide whether UBS should go beyond its legal obligations to help mitigate climate change.
TXU Buyout: Anatomy of a Deal
Authors: Marston, Jim; Environmental Defense
Product Type:
Source: EnvironmentalDefense.org
Publication Year: 2007
For a behind-the-scenes perspective on this deal, our Texas Regional Director Jim Marston sat down with us to share his perspective on the negotiations, how the deal was reached and what it says about the future...
Corporate Citizens Serving Individual Consumers
Author: Reiniche, Dominique
Product Type: Speeches
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2007
Coca-Cola's Dominique Reiniche, during the third global soft drinks congress, noted that "CSR is not about imposing limitations, restrictions or constraints, it's about seizing opportunities and innovating in a sustainable way -- it's a new paradigm! ... Our business leadership in society is not only about competitiveness; it is also about finding common ground -- working with stakeholders, really meaning what we say when we commit to a sustainable future..."
Living Into Leadership: A Journey in Ethics
Authors: McCoy, Buzz; McCoy, Bowen H.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Stanford Business Books
Publication Year: 2007
The book presents the case for creating a moral compass that allows one to make decisions under uncertainty, lead a life of integrity, establish the practice of ethics both personally and in society, and know when to embrace change and when to hold one's ground.
Living With the Limitations of Success
Authors: Jiang, Bin; Koller, Timothy
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Once companies reach a certain size, setting realistic performance aspirations gets a bit trickier...
New Card Puts Bank in Immigration Debate
Author: Augstums, Ieva M.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Associated Press
Publication Year: 2007
When news broke that Bank of America Corp. was testing a new credit card available to customers who may be illegal immigrants, the reaction was predictably harsh...
Farmacias Similares
Authors: Chu, Michael; Garcia-Cuellar, Regina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This case profiles a retail model for low-income markets and examines the role of private enterprise and profits in the health care of low-income populations, the creation of social value in commercial enterprises, and possible implications for public policy.
Webcast: Educating Aspiring Social Entrepreneurs
Authors: Robinson, Jeffrey; Rose, Mara
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2007
During this Web-Conference, Professor Robinson and Mara Rose outline how research, teaching, and real-world programs are all key to preparing our students to become social entrepreneurs; they highlight a couple of their most popular offerings; and they'll share insights into how we can think about teaching social entrepreneurship and the challenges associated with doing so effectively...
How Environmentalists Shaped TXU Deal
Authors: Krupp, Fred; Inskeep, Steve
Product Type: Interviews
Source: npr.org
Publication Year: 2007
Environmental advocacy groups were called in to help structure the deal for TXU Corp., the Texas electrical utility. Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, speaks with Steve Inskeep about the process of winning environmental commitments from TXU's suitors...
TXU Buyout Tied to Environmental Agreement
Author: Marston, Jim
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Web Sites
Source: EnvironmentalDefenseBlogs.org/Climate411
Publication Year: 2007
Guest blogger Jim Marston is an attorney, and the Director of the Energy Program in the Texas Office of Environmental Defense. Who would have thought that, almost a month to the day after the USCAP initiative was announced, coal-enamored TXU would come on board? But today's big news is victory in Texas, thanks to an unusual buyout agreement...
Khosla Ventures
Authors: Plambeck, Erica; Spitzer, Joshua
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2007
Discusses a firm's decision-making process around investment in ethanol production, and the complex non-market environment surrounding the ethanol value chain.
Urban Video Game Academy
Authors: Applegate, Lynda M.; Saltrick, Susan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Urban Video Game Academy was founded to enhance the academic and career prospects of urban youth. Demonstrates the opportunities and challenges of social entrepreneurship...
America's Greenest Buildings
Author: Clark, Hannah
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Forbes.com
Publication Year: 2007
Does your office environment get you down? Then you might want to consider working with Tom Hicks. A vice president at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which awards ratings to buildings that achieve environmentally friendly targets, Hicks has the fortune to work in a building that has achieved "gold" status, and on a floor that has gone platinum...
NewSchools Venture Fund in 2004: At a Crossroads
Authors: Childress, Stacey; King, Caroline
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
Founded as one of the first venture philanthropy organizations in the United States in 1998, NewSchools Venture Fund brought new investors and new ideas to public education reform. By 2004, the organization and its founder were reassessing their model and their role in creating social value...
Opportunity International
Authors: Leonard, Herman B.; Tritter, Melissa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
After a “first career” in business, HBS graduate Christopher Crane becomes CEO of a worldwide microfinance network. Explores the metrics of non-financial success and to identify business models for mission-driven organizations. Also, the organization is committed to helping as many people out of poverty as quickly as possible, but donations and repayments are not enough to fuel rapid growth.
X PRIZE Foundation
Authors: Hoyt, David W.; Phills, James A., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2007
After the success of the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE competition, Peter Diamandis, founder and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation considered the future of the foundation. The foundation chose to work on developing 10-15 prize competitions in fields including space, medicine and genomics, energy and transportation, education, and other social challenges.
The New Metrics of Corporate Performance: Profit per employee
Author: Bryan, Lowell L.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Today's approach to measuring financial performance is geared excessively to the capital-intensive operating styles of 20th-century industrial companies. It doesn't sufficiently account for factors such as the contributions of talented employees that, more and more, are the basic source of wealth...
Leading Change: An Interview with TXU's CEO
Author: Strickland, Warren L.
Product Type: Journal Articles; Interviews
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
In the 1980s, a massive industrial restructuring of electricity and natural-gas sectors in the U.S. got under way as corporations scurried to position themselves for the coming era of deregulation, volatile energy markets, and intense competition...
Amanco
Authors: Kaplan, Robert S.; Reisen de Pinho, Ricardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
The owners and senior executive team of Amanco, a producer of plastic pipe and complete water treatment systems, want strong financial returns but are also deeply committed to improving the environment and making a difference in people's lives. Illustrates the development of a management system using strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards to help a company implement its triple-bottom-line objectives of excellence in economic, environmental, and social performance.
Disney Consumer Products
Authors: Bell, David E.; Winig, Laura
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
Disney--and by extension, DCP--is highly influential with children: can the company use its “magic” to get children to switch from sugary, processed foods and become lifelong converts to a more nutritious diet? What is the food industry's responsibility in this controversial space? Discusses the role and responsibility of a for-profit company in addressing a significant social issue, namely, obesity.
Assessing Student Learning in the Disciplines: Assessment Update Collections
Author: Banta, Trudy W.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Jossey-Bass
Publication Year: 2007
Because faculty members’ thinking is immersed in the discipline(s) they teach, it often makes good sense to begin an assessment initiative at a college or university by focusing on student learning in the discipline, or academic major. This new issue illustrates how assessment initiatives focused in that fashion can be the starting point of a successful institutional assessment program.
A Closer Look at Business Education: Marketing
Author: Goldbach, Justin F.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2007
In recent years, attention to social and environmental issues in product marketing has become a mainstream practice and offers opportunities for firms to differentiate themselves in the market. Our data show that a critical examination of the social impact of marketing is sometimes limited...
Keggfarms (India)
Author: Isenberg, Daniel J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
As of November 2006, Keggfarms was supplying chicks to about 4 million poor villagers, generating incomes for 700,000 households when they sold the eggs and meat. In November 2006, Kapur faced a number of issues, including how to expand without capital, how to deal with imitation, and how to balance Keggfarm's for-profit and social values.
Values-Based Leadership in Practice
Author: Vanourek, Robert
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Denver, Daniels School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
The course examines the complexities, paradoxes, and dangers of leadership. The platform for the course is a Core Leadership Model (and logical deviations from it) which can result in Great Leadership. At the heart of Great Leadership one finds a values base. Through in-depth analysis of the key dimensions of the Core Model and its accompanying deviations, participants will gain a deep understanding of—and practical experience with—Values-Based Leadership in today's world.
When social issues become strategic
Authors: Bonini, Sheila M. J.; Mendonca, Lenny T.; Oppenheim, Jeremy M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Businesses have never been insulated from social or political expectations. What's different today is the intensifying pressure and the growing complexity of the forces, the speed with which they change, and the ability of activists to mobilize public opinion. Yet even as the social contract evolves, the typical corporate response appears to have become increasingly flat footed.
Leader Business Strategies
Authors: Bent, David; Draper, Stephanie
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Forum for the Future
Publication Year: 2007
Meeting our needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs – in short, sustainable development – is the major challenge facing our age. And for Leader Businesses, companies that are pushing the boundaries on sustainability in one or more areas of their business activity, rising to that challenge is already boosting profits.
The Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight
Author: Rangan, V. Kasturi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Starting as a modest 20-bed hospital, Aravind had grown into a 1,400-bed hospital complex by 1992. It had by then screened 3.65 million patients and performed 335,000 cataract surgeries, nearly 70% of them free of cost for the poorest of India's blind population...
The Lesbian and the Christian (A, B)
Author: Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2007
Small business owner Tim Bono must decide whether to accept business from a customer that involves transferring film with homosexual content, and if doing so violates his company's "Christian and ethical values."
Just Us! Coffee Roasters
Authors: Sagebien, Julia; Skinner, S.; Weshler, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
The growing demand and acceptance of fair trade products is good news for the industry and opens many opportunities for Just Us! Coffee Cooperative, but there are also risks.
International Intelligence
Author: Holstein, William J.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Forbes.com
Publication Year: 2007
American companies seeking to expand internationally ought to do a better job of placing non-Americans on their boards to help guide them, says J. Frank Brown, newly appointed dean of INSEAD, the international business school, with campuses in France and Singapore...
Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
Authors: Wei-Skillern, Jane; Austin, James E.; Leonard, Herman B.; Stevenson, Howard H.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: SAGE Publications, Inc
Publication Year: 2007
Written for students and practitioners, this unique text, with Harvard cases, provides detailed analysis and frameworks for achieving maximum impact through social entrepreneurship.
Capitalizing on Convergence
Authors: Austin, James E.; Gutiérrez, Roberto; Ogliastri, Enrique; Reficco, Ezequiel
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2007
Nonprofits and businesses are converging - in the value they create, the stakeholders they manage, the organizations they form, and the financial instruments they use. The era of convergence is upon us. Do you know how to take advantage of it?
The Power of Strategic Mission Investing
Authors: Kramer, Mark R.; Cooch, Sarah E.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2007
A growing number of foundations are offering low-interest loans, buying into green business ventures, and investing in other asset classes to advance their missions. Yet most mission investing remains haphazard and inconsequential. To bring about real change, foundations need to take a fundamentally different approach, making strategic mission investments that complement their grantmaking and leverage market forces.
Google in China
Authors: Wilson, Kristina; Ramos, Yaneli; Harvey, Daniel; Norman, Wayne
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Publication Year: 2007
Discusses ethical issues related to the decision by Google, a company whose mission is to uphold the highest standards of ethical business conduct, to launch a version of its search engine that is run from within China and subject to self-censorship.
Hy-Vee’s Winning Ways
Author: Rubow, Steven
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Private Label Magazine
Publication Year: 2007
Here’s why Hy-Vee is successful as a chain and as a marketer of its private brands: Location, Ownership, Organization, Brands, Promotion and Customer Focus.
illycaffè: Value Creation through Responsible Supplier Relationships
Authors: Perrini, Francesco; Russo, Angeloantonio
Product Type: Cases
Source: European Academy of Business in Society
Publication Year: 2007
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is gaining momentum in the business world, but several issues still challenge managers in charge of sustainability.
CEOs as Public Leaders: A McKinsey Survey
Author:
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
US business executives say they should play a much greater role in shaping debate about sociopolitical issues and leading efforts to effect change...
Corporate Responsibility and Strategic Management
Author:
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: European Academy of Business in Society
Publication Year: 2007
To access and download PDF copies of the articles, click on the individual titles below. Corporate Responsibility, Strategic Management and the Stakeholder View of the Firm - Introduction and Editorial. Guest editors: Gilbert Lenssen, President, EABIS and Professor, University of Leiden (Netherlands); Francesco Perrini, Professor and Chair of Social Entrepreneurship, Bocconi University (Italy); Antonio Tencati, Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher, Bocconi University (Italy); and Peter Lacy, Executive Director, EABIS.
Achieving Impact in Social-Purpose Organizations
Author: Anderson, Beth
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
This course explores the development and application of strategy and marketing concepts for social-purpose organizations. Since the majority of the theory that has been developed around this area has focused on the nonprofit sector, the cases and materials used all adopt a nonprofit perspective.
Product Design and Stewardship
Author: Rifer, Wayne
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Portland State University, School of Management
Publication Year: 2007
In this course, part of the Masters in International Management Sustainability sequence, students will be given a broad background in the topic of products and the environment. The course will focus on the most current initiatives and research, with examination of the controversies raised by different approaches.
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...
Advancing Global Sustainability Through Technology
Author:
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: GreenerComputing
Publication Year: 2007
In a world beset with overconsumption, environmental degradation, global warming, growing resource scarcity, and social change, humanity is facing its greatest challenges ever. The microprocessor and the ICT revolution it has spawned provide ideal tools for helping us scope the extent of the problems we're facing, develop solutions for reducing our consumption, improve our productivity in sustainable ways, and measure our progress...
Best Buy's Results Only Work Environment: Changing the Productivity Paradigm?
Author: Regani, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
This case discusses a workplace programme called the 'Results Oriented Work Environment' (ROWE) implemented by US based electronics retailer Best Buy in 2003-2004.
Techam Inc.: Managing Partnerships and Climate Protection
Authors: Steger, Ulrich; Ionescu-Somers, Aileen; Salzmann, O
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD - International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2007
This case study (based on a qualitative empirical study of sustainability partnerships) describes internal and external challenges associated with partnerships in general (and in the area of climate protection in particular).
Kentucky Fried Chicken: Tackling the Trans Fat Problem
Authors: Fernando, R; Sengupta, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
The case study looks at the steps undertaken by KFC Corporation, a leading US-based fast food restaurant chain, while dealing with the problem of trans fats in its food items.
The Body Shop: Social Responsibility or Sustained Greenwashing?
Authors: Meenakshisundaram, Ramalingam; Purkayastha, Debapratim; Fernando, Rajiv
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
In March 2006 The Body Shop, a retailer of natural-based and ethically-sourced beauty products, announced that it had agreed to an acquisition by the beauty care giant L'Oréal in a cash deal worth £652 million (US$ 1.14 billion). The announcement brought in its wake a spate of criticism against Body Shop and its founder, Dame Anita Roddick, who was regarded as a pioneer in modern corporate social responsibility.
KT Sean: 'Choose the Right Company'
Authors: Lee, J; Liu, J
Product Type: Cases
Source: China Europe International Business School
Publication Year: 2007
The case demonstrates how FedEx's policy on promotion from within the company has supported women employees' career development; and how FedEx has empowered KT Sean with the sophisticated leadership that has enabled her to make a significant contribution to empowering her subordinates.
Empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid via Product Stewardship: Tetra Pak Entrepreneurial Networks in Brazil
Authors: Orsato, R; Von Zuben, F; Van Wassenhove, Luk
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2007
By applying the case, teachers are able to explore: (1) how corporations can minimise the costs of regulations based on extended producer responsibility; (2) the necessary conditions to establish a reverse logistics system for post-consumptive packaging; (3) how product stewardship can influence corporate reputation; (4) how corporate strategies can be used for poverty alleviation; and (5) how environment-driven strategies can generate new management capabilities.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 (A, B, C)
Authors: Diermeier, Daniel; Heinze, Justin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
After the company's first aviation fatality, Southwest Airlines's CEO is faced with new and difficult decisions.
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