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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
Fritidsresor Under Pressure (A, B, C)
Authors: Margolis, Joshua; Dessain, Vincent; Sjoman, Anders
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Amid the initial uncertainty after the tsunami in Southeast Asia in 2004, the leadership team of Fritidsresor must make a range of decisions to orchestrate the company's response and manage the rest of its travel business.
Parivaar: A Family for Destitute Children
Authors: Ray, S; Thakur, M
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
The case is a study of social entrepreneurship. Parivaar provides a home for homeless children; its program makes quality and value based education the motor force for the child's development. The case was written for the Case Chase Competition 2005 organised by the Society of Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) and the Indian School of Business and sponsored by ecch.
"Employees First, Customers Second": Wegmans' Work Culture
Authors: George, S; Regani, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
This case examines some of the elements of Wegmans' work culture, and how they contributed to making Wegmans a great place to work.
Whole Foods Market's Growth Strategies and Future Prospects
Author: Regani, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
This case is meant for MBA / PGDBM students and is designed to be part of the strategy and general management curriculum. The teaching note includes the abstract, teaching objectives and methodology, assignment questions, analysis, feedback of case discussion and suggested readings and references.
Cynthia Fisher and the Rearing of ViaCell
Authors: Higgins, Robert F.; Hamermesh, Richard G.; Vargas, Ingrid
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Describes the start up of Viacord, a Boston-based medical services firm specializing in the storage of newborns' umbilical cord blood. The case details the conceptualization and launch of the business and the many obstacles and expenses faced in the company's first seven years.
A Closer Look at Business Education: HIV/AIDS
Author: Goldbach, Justin F.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2006
While two-thirds of those afflicted with AIDS reside in sub-Saharan Africa, infections continue to rise in each region of the globe. It's not surprising, then, that firms are eyeing fast-emerging economies such as Brazil, Russia, India and China and noting the potential negative impact of this disease on their bottom line...
Magazine Luiza
Authors: Frei, Frances X.; Reisen de Pinho, Ricardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Describes the innovative retail model of the Brazilian firm Magazine Luiza. Magazine Luiza enables low-income consumer credit by applying a flexible and nuanced evaluation system...
Bennie Wiley at The Partnership, Inc.
Authors: Roberts, Laura Morgan; Winston, Victoria W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Benaree Wiley, an African American, female HBS graduate (class of 1972), was appointed CEO and president in 1991 of The Partnership, a Boston-based nonprofit dedicated to developing leadership potential in professionals of color and in increasing their representation in area businesses and institutions. In December 2004, Wiley announced her impending retirement, leaving the organization with several challenges.
Jeanette Clough at Mount Auburn Hospital
Authors: Roberts, Laura Morgan; Kanji, Ayesha
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Jeanette Clough, the CEO of Mt. Auburn Hospital, successfully leads a turnaround for the struggling local hospital. The hospital is currently in the midst of a capital campaign to update the facilities and expand. Community groups are resisting the hospital expansion in Cambridge, posing a new set of challenges. The case looks at change management and aligning key constituencies in a health care organization, and at the conflict between an organization's goals and those of the community it serves.
HIV / AIDS and Strategy
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2006
When the challenges of HIV/AIDS in developing countries are integrated into Management Education, they are often addressed in Business & Society courses or Business Ethics courses. However, this teaching module provides a set or readings for students as well as some background readings for faculty that illustrate the importance and relevance of raising this topic in core Strategy courses...
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.
Is Corporate Social Responsibility Responsible?
Author: Atkins, Betsy
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Forbes.com
Publication Year: 2006
The concept of corporate social responsibility deserves to be challenged. It seems that political correctness has obfuscated the important business points...
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...
What Women Want (in Financial Services)
Authors: Gordon, Karen; Kato, Kosuke; Lee, Kevin; Marcil, Sharon
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: The Boston Consulting Group
Publication Year: 2006
Women are increasingly gaining financial power through business success, entrepreneurship, and inheritance...
Holistic Approaches for Integration of Organizational Social and Environmental Performance
Author: Sharma, Sanjay
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2006
In the approximately 20 years that have passed since the Brundtland Commission's "Our Common Future" report was published, the concept of sustainable development has remained a powerful idea but, as was feared, approaches to research, teaching, and practice in this domain have remained fragmented; in light of this, the incremental results we have achieved are not surprising...
Clearwater Seafoods
Authors: Reinhardt, Forest; Weber, James
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Clearwater harvested shellfish from the Canadian Atlantic fishery and sold this in markets around the world. They prided themselves on their sustainable fishing practices, which were not the norm for the industry. Seafood buyers traditionally bought on price. Clearwater's innovations and technology investments enabled it to produce a higher quality, value-added product, but it faced the challenge of convincing buyers to pay a premium price.
A Closer Look at Business Education: Climate Change
Author: Goldbach, Justin F.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2006
Within the past decade climate change has moved from the environmental to the financial realm, as far as business is concerned. Firms must juggle many climate change-related issues, including the prospect of future regulation, insurance liabilities, investor pressure, and consumer relations...
The Pine Street Initiative at Goldman Sachs
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Snook, Scott; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Goldman Sachs' Pine Street Initiative was designed to institutionalize leadership development and to maintain organizational culture in the face of ongoing change. This case illustrates both the challenge of and solutions for developing senior leaders in the highly charged and demanding culture of a successful investment bank; to uncover and address the fundamental questions underlying any attempt to accelerate the growth of leaders; to discover lessons from Pine Street's five- year evolution; and recommend solutions to maintain Pine Street's viability moving forward.
Google, Inc.
Authors: Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Herman, Kerry
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats they pose to Yahoo, Microsoft, and eBay. Asks what Google should do next...
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.
OQOQO: Socially Conscious Fashions
Authors: Murray, Kyle; Mark, Ken; Sherritt, Megan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
This case discusses efforts to develop a sustainable fashion line with clothing materials and styles both environmentally and socially conscious.
Minnesota Public Radio
Authors: Phills, James A.; Chang, Victoria
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2006
Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) started as a small public station that 26-year-old William Kling established at St. John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota in 1967. Kling created a number of for-profit ventures to support and build the MPR empire. By 2004, however, MPR and Kling were the subject of unrelenting public criticism. Introduces the concept of “social purpose capitalism” and explores how this model influences the goals and direction of a not-for-profit organization. Discusses and evaluates the implications of a social purpose capitalism model on both the non- and for-profit entities involved.
King Arthur Flour
Authors: DeLong, Thomas J.; Holian, James; Weiss, Joshua
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
The success of King Arthur Flour could be attributed both to the quality of the product and to the company culture, which treated employee-owners with respect and allowed them to meaningfully contribute to the future direction of the company.
Capitalism 3.0
Author: Barnes, Peter
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2006
In Capitalism 3.0, Peter Barnes redefines the debate about the costs and benefits of the operating system known as the free market. Despite clunky features, early versions of capitalism were somewhat successful. The current model, however, is packed with proprietary features that benefit a lucky few while threatening to crash the system for everyone else...
Dansko, Inc.
Authors: Edmondson, Amy C.; Winston, Victoria W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Despite a history of success, the management philosophy that had guided Dansko's growth,”home schooling”--taking young energetic employees with little business experience and mentoring them--seemed ill-suited for the next phase of growth. Examines the importance of culture in a company and how that corporate culture evolves with time.
LAFARGE S.A.
Authors: Laszlo, Chris; Myers, Meredith
Product Type: Cases
Source: Institute for Sustainable Value in Business
Publication Year: 2006
Lafarge, a French-based global industry leader in building materials, has current sales of 20 billion USD and a workforce of 80,000 people worldwide. The main environmental issues for this company are energy efficiency, CO2 emissions...
The New Rigor: Beyond the Right Answer
Author: Samuelson, Judith
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program; The Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal, Volume 5, Number 3, September 2006.
Publication Year: 2006
This month, we are pleased to link CasePlace.org to the September 2006 special issue of the Academy of Management Learning & Education Journal. "The New Rigor: Beyond the Right Answer," integrates lessons from nine years of cross-sector dialogue and research on the attitudes of students and executives towards values in business...
Veridian: Putting a Value on Values
Authors: Khurana, Rakesh; Podolny, Joel; Elias, Jaan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
While some CEOs would have welcomed the opportunity to sell their companies for a substantial premium over its current stock price, David Langstaff had not built Veridian – a medium-sized defense contractor -- to be a high flier in the stock market. Langstaff believed that he was building a "national asset" - a company dedicated to giving the nation's top technologists the opportunity to devise the best solutions to the nation's most pressing problems...
Veridian
Authors: Khurana, Rakesh; Podolny, Joel; Elias, Jaan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
The CEO of Veridian, a defense company, struggles with the decision of selling the company. Langstaff was concerned with how the prospect of selling the firm would square with Veridian's commitment to its constituencies and values-based leadership.
Green to Gold
Author: Esty, Daniel C.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Yale University Press
Publication Year: 2006
This book explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and business. Based on the authors' years of experience and hundreds of interviews with corporate leaders around the world, Green to Gold shows how companies generate lasting value, cutting costs, reducing risk, increasing revenues, and creating strong brands, by building environmental thinking into their business strategies...
Procter & Gamble PuR Purifier of Water™ (A, B)
Authors: Hanson, Margaret; Powell, Karen
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2006
Procter & Gamble's PuR: Purifier of Water, a household water treatment sold in small sachets, was developed in collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and targeted 'bottom of the pyramid' households, where water treatment facilities are often lacking...
Changing How the World Does Business
Author: Frock, Roger
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2006
For a long time, it looked like FedEx would never get off the ground. The company's early years were an unending series of legal, financial, and operational crises that continually threatened its ability to stay in business. Yet FedEx's leaders and employees were incredibly resourceful and resilient. Becuase Roger Frock was with the companies from the start, he is able to chronicle these real-life hardships and hard-fought triumphs as only an insider can...
Marketing that Matters
Authors: Conley, Chip; Friedenwald-Fishman, Eric
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2006
Many business leaders view marketing as the crass, ugly side of business. This new book proves that "marketing" isn't a dirty word — it's the key to advancing both business ideals and the bottom line...
Nest Fresh Eggs (A, B)
Author: Amabile, Teresa M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Szymanski had based her company, Nest Fresh Eggs, on a strong personal belief that people deserved healthier alternatives for food and that animals deserved to be treated well. But, during Nest Fresh's 14 years in business, the egg industry had undergone a number of changes. Szymanski had to come up with business alternatives, some of which might require back-pedaling on her convictions.
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..."
Board of Directors at Medtronic, Inc.
Authors: Spaulding, Norman; Pick, Katharina; Chernak, Alexis; Lorsch, Jay W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Medtronic directors must evaluate how the board has changed, how it will continue to change, and how it should work to perpetuate the company's culture in the future. Discusses CEO succession, board turnover, board culture, and the roles of active directors.
Philanthropy Google's Way: Not the Usual
Author: Hafner, Katie
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2006
The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming. But unlike most charities, this one will be for-profit, allowing it to fund start-up companies, form partnerships with venture capitalists and even lobby Congress...
Napo Pharmaceuticals
Authors: Chess, Robert; Spitzer, Joshua
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Chronicles entrepreneur Lisa Conte's ventures, formed to make drug discovery and development more efficient by studying traditional, indigenous healers in the tropics. At the time of the case study, Napo was developing the compound for sale in large western markets while arranging an innovative public-private partnership to develop and distribute crofelemer in the developing world.
Sapient Corp. (Abridged)
Authors: Khurana, Rakesh; Podolny, Joel
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Focuses on the creative use of organizational purpose and values as an integral part of strategy and alignment of organizational activities.
A Nonprofit Goes for Broke
Authors: Bays, Jonathan; Dua, André; Taliento, Lynn K.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Mckinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2006
When the Atlantic Philanthropies decided to spend its entire endowment by 2020, it faced huge challenges—which it has so far managed successfully, providing an example for institutions contemplating transformative change...
WSU Vancouver MBA Program: Stakeholder-Focused Leadership for Sustained Business Success
Author: WSU Vancouver Faculty
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Washington State University, Vancouver
Publication Year: 2006
WSU Vancouver's Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program is built around a stakeholder focus and its implications for competitive advantage and long term organizational performance (enlightened shareholder management)...
Introduction to Sustainable Business
Author: Fowler, Stephen
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of San Francisco
Publication Year: 2006
Studies by organizations such as Price Waterhouse, Arthur D. Little and Stanford University suggest that most major companies in the US now accept the need to consider environmental and social impacts in developing their strategies. This attitude represents an important shift from prior strategic thinking on the part of companies. This course will provide students with an understanding of the reason behind this change and offer a thorough introduction to the concept and practice of business sustainability.
CSR in Asia
Author: Quintos-Gonzales, Virginia
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Asian Institute of Management, W. Sycip Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
The objective is to have an activity that will make an impact on the students, an activity that is high profile with a strong message, and by mixing MBA with MDM students, there will be different viewpoints that will hopefully converge.
Strategic Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations
Author: Ringold, Debra
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Willamette University, Atkinson Graduate School of Management
Publication Year: 2006
The goal of marketing is to create satisfaction profitably by building value-laden relationships with customers and/or clients. Thus, this course will introduce you to marketing as a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products, services, and/or value with others.
Innovating in Health Care—Framework
Author: Herzlinger, Regina E.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Contains the framework for the second-year Innovating in Health Care course. Delineates the role of six exogenous forces on new ventures: structure, financing, regulations, consumers, accountability, technology, and public policy...
Malden Mills (A, B)
Authors: Nohria, Nitin; Gurtler, Bridget; Piper, Thomas R.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
CEO Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills decided to pay idled workers after a massive fire at his mill in 1995. Focuses on the decisions made post-fire and the rebuilding process and eventual bankruptcy of the company...
CSU-CCA Group
Authors: Prado, Andrea; Leguizamon, Francisco
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
This case deals with the concept of how to orchestrate a consistent corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy consolidating many diverse social initiatives started within a business group.
The Triple Bottom Line
Authors: Savitz, Andrew; Weber, Karl
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Jossey-Bass
Publication Year: 2006
The Triple Bottom Line is the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement...
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