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Mining and Metals: Five Issues with Broad Implications
Authors: Shattuck, Rachel; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
The mining and metals industry offers many challenging questions and useful lessons for MBA students. This teaching module helps professors raise these topics in the classroom by bringing together a variety of different materials from different sources that can be used both as background reading and as the focus of class discussion...
Calculating Consequences: The Utilitarian Approach to Ethics
Authors: Velasquez, Manuel; Andre, Claire; Shanks, Thomas; Meyer, Michael
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Interviews
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 1989
Utilitarianism offers a relatively straightforward method for deciding the morally right course of action for any particular situation we may find ourselves in.
Webcast: Integrating Stakeholder Theory into the MBA Curriculum
Authors: Cote, Joseph; Cote, Jane; Goodstein, Jerry; Latham, Claire
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education; Washington State University, Vancouver.
Publication Year: 2006
"At its heart, our program should teach students to incorporate multiple stakeholder perspectives into business decision-making and analysis", stated Dr. Jerry Goodstein. Accomplishing this goal required building the MBA core around stakeholder theory in a way that enhanced disciplinary content. Join this Web-Conference to find out more!
Business and Society: Corporate Strategy, Public Policy, Ethics. 10th Edition
Authors: Post, James E.; Lawrence, Anne T.; Weber, James
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Boston: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2002.
Publication Year: 2001
The first book to be published and the market leader in the field of business and society...
Nopane Advertising Strategy
Author: Bell, David E.
Product Type:
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1993
Nopane is a proprietary drug that sells in much of the United States. It faces substantial competition. The brand manager is undertaking an experiment to determine whether ad copy should be emotional-based or rational-based...
Environmental Justice: Income, Race, and Health
Author: Massey, Rachel
Product Type: Teaching Modules; Web Sites
Source: Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
Publication Year: 2009
This teaching module presents data and case studies illustrating how minority and low-income communities often bear a disproportionate share of environmental costs...
Teaching Ethics, Heuristics, and Biases
Author: Prentice, Robert A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics Education (JBEE) Volume 1 Issue 1 2004, pps. 57-74.
Publication Year: 2004
This article seeks to introduce a selected portion of the heuristics and biases and related psychological literature, to highlight its implications for ethical decision making, and to serve as the basis for a lecture that could inform students regarding these matters.
Anglo American (A, B)
Authors: Podolny, Joel; Bahl, Kanika; Newsome, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2004
In 2001, Dr. Brian Brink, senior vice president of Anglo American, a massive South African mining conglomerate, was debating how to confront the ravages that extremely high HIV/AIDS rates were taking on Anglo's workforce and overall productivity...
Mining and Metals: Sustainability and Core Operations
Authors: Shattuck, Rachel; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
The mining and metals industry faces the depletion of resources, the stewardship of land, and the impacts on local communities as issues central to its operations.
Management 587: Business Ethics and Public Stakeholders
Author: Goodstein, Jerry
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Washington State University, Vancouver
Publication Year: 2006
This course examines the management of stakeholder relationships, evaluates the effects of publics on organizational strategy, and applies a formal process to identify and address ethical conflicts between firms and stakeholders, paying particular attention to private sector-public sector interactions.
The Importance of Cultural Framing to the Success of Social Initiatives in Business
Authors: Howard-Grenville, Jennifer; Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Executive. Vol. 17, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 2003
Cultural frames provide leverage for action on social initiatives, as shown in a case on the air pollution issue in semiconductor manufacturing.
Acctg 533: Administrative Control / Managerial Accounting
Author: Cote, Jane
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Washington State University, Vancouver
Publication Year: 2006
This course will integrate fundamental cost accounting topics with strategic analysis to demonstrate how accounting information is used within an organization to make business decisions, design control systems, and evaluate the impact on various stakeholder groups...
The Voice of the Stakeholder
Authors: Samuelson, Judith; Birchard, Bill
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business. Fall 2003; Issue 32.
Publication Year: 2003
This article discusses the importance of listening to stakeholders in today's business reality. Drawing on 12 recent publications, the authors both identify and address five challenges in realizing a vision of social responsibility by relating to stakeholders...
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.
Business Schools: A Failing Grade on Ethics
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: BusinessWeek
Publication Year: 2009
The time for teaching analysis of ethical problems is over. Students must be given the tools to act decisively when it's easier to run with the crowd.
The Dark Side of Customer Analytics
Authors: Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
An insurance company finds some intriguing patterns in the loyalty card data it bought from a grocery chain—the correlation between condom sales and HIV-related claims, for instance. How can both companies leverage the data responsibly?
As if the Future Mattered: Translating Social and Economic Theory into Human Behavior
Author: Goodwin, Neva
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University.
Published by University of Michigan Press
Publication Year: 1996
There has never been a better time to explore the ways in which values relating to the future can be preserved and nurtured despite contemporary capitalism's tendency toward shortsighted selfishness...
Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags
Author: Rosenthal, Elisabeth
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2008
In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the register. This case examines the effects.
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)...
As Maytag Chooses a Suitor, It's Not All About Money
Author: Sorkin, Andrew Ross
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
This article documents concerns other than profit which appear to drive corporate board decisions, including concerns about perceived market domination and political risk...
Orangia Highways (A, B)
Authors: Eso, Peter; Klibanoff, Peter; Schmedders, Karl; Hunter, Graeme
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
The decision maker is in charge of procurement auctions at the department of transportation of Orangia (a fictitious U.S. state).
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...
Business Education's Role In the Crisis of Corporate Confidence
Author: Gioia, Dennis A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Executive, Vol. 16, Issue 3.
Publication Year: 2002
This article discusses the role business educators have played in the present crisis of corporate confidence.
Barriers to resolution in ideologically based negotiations: The role of values and institutions
Authors: Wade-Benzoni, Kimberly A.; Thompson, Leigh L.; Moore, Don A.; Gillespie, James J.; Bazerman, Max H.; Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Review, 27 (1): 41-57. 2002.
Publication Year: 2002
This article differentiates ideaologically based negotiations from other types of negotiations and illustrates the value laden and institutional contexts in which they occur. Using environment related issues, the paper offers constructive suggestions for overcoming barriers to conflict resolution.
Economics Wins, Psychology Loses, and Society Pays
Authors: Bazerman, Max H.; Malhotra, Deepak P.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School, Negotiation, Organizations and Markets Unit, Research Paper Series
Publication Year: 2005
Economics is the social science that dominates public policy debate and formulation. We argue that other social sciences, and in particular psychology, have a great deal to offer, and that our failure to incorporate the lessons from other social sciences leads to inferior public policy...
The Accountability Lens: A New Way to View Management Issues
Authors: Hall, Angela T.; Bowen, Micheal G.; Ferris, Gerald R.; Royle, M. Todd; Fitzgibbons, Dale E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Indiana University
Publication Year: 2007
Contends that viewing organizations through an accountability lens (in terms of source, focus, salience, and intensity) helps illuminate issues of governance and ethical dilemmas common to most individuals at work.
U.S. Trust: Evaluating Labor Practices (Unabridged)
Authors: Tulloch, Henry W.; Cook, Stephen B.; Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 1991
The Socially Sensitive Investing Group at U.S. Trust is asked to develop criteria for assessing the fairness of labor practices in both union and nonunion companies. U.S. Trust's client, the Calvert Social Investment Fund, wants more explicit standards than those currently in use...
Industry Self-Regulation without Sanctions: The Chemical Industry's Responsible Care Program
Authors: King, Andrew; Lenox, Michael
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Academy of Management Journal, Volume 43, No. 4, pp. 698-716.
Publication Year: 2000
Industry self-regulation – the voluntary association of firms to control their collective action – has been proposed as a complement to government regulation...
Beige Holdings Limited
Authors: Ferris, K.; Muratovic, F.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2000
This case examines the reporting practices of a high-flying South African pharmaceutical company, Beige Holdings Ltd.
Cambrian House
Authors: Coles, Peter A.; Lakhani, Karim R.; McAfee, Andrew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
The case serves to illustrate the tradeoffs in utilizing sophisticated market mechanisms to access distributed knowledge.
Prediction Markets at Google
Authors: Coles, Peter A.; Lakhani, Karim R.; McAfee, Andrew
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
To illustrate one effective way that information technology is used to harness the Wisdom of Crowds.
Caux Round Table
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source:
Publication Year: 2004
The Caux Round Table is "an international network of principled business leaders working to promote a moral capitalism."
Life Cycle Assessment of Polylactide (PLA)
Authors: Detzel, Andreas; Kruger, Martina
Product Type: Cases; Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Publication Year: 2006
NatureWorks LLC decided to commission a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in order to obtain comprehensive information about the environmental performance of packaging made from NatureWorks PLA under the framework of German conditions.
Corporate Involvement In Community Economic Development
Authors: Wood, Donna J.; Davenport, Kimberly S.; Blockson, Laquita C.; Van Buren III, Harry J
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business and Society, June 2002; Vol. 41, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 2002
This empirical study examines how 105 business schools included courses on corporate involvement in community development in their curriculae.
The Role of Business In Combating HIV/AIDS
Author: Beever, Charles
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2006
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is unquestionably a human tragedy, with few parallels in the sheer scope of physical and emotional pain that it inflicts on the 40 million people living with HIV and their caretakers. But it is also one of the most significant economic and business issues of our time...
Conflicts of Interest and the Case of Auditor Independence
Authors: Bazerman, Max H.; Moore, Don A.; Tetlock, Philip E.; Tanly, Lloyd
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation, Research Paper Series
Publication Year: 2005
A series of financial scandals, climaxing in the 2002 bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation, revealed a key weakness in the American business model: the failure of the U.S. auditing system to deliver true independence. The authors offer a two-tiered analysis of what went wrong...
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Author: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Random House
Publication Year: 2008
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill.
Avoiding Ecological Surprise: Lessons from Long-Standing Communities
Author: King, Andrew
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 961-985.
Publication Year: 1995
Increasingly ecologists have recognized the importance of sudden and unexpected changes in the natural environment – often called ‘surprises'...
MGTOp 591: Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions
Author: Umesh, U.N.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Washington State University, Vancouver
Publication Year: 2006
The purpose of the course is to provide students with a practical understanding of statistical phenomena. Students will be made to go through statistical equations and their manipulations as a precursor to applying them to practical situations...
Should Energy Be Subsidized?
Authors: George, S; Govind, S; Chakraborty, B
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICFAI Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
The case discusses some of the different aspects of energy subsidies and the impact, both positive and negative, of withdrawing energy subsidies.
The Delta Electronics Corporation
Authors: Miller, T; Mueller, E; Todd, J
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2003
The case focuses on the problems of Bob Allan, a promising young MBA, who joins a large national retail sales corporation and soon faces a personal career dilemma in reconciling his goals and values with the demands of the organization.
The European Business Ethics Network (EBEN)
Author:
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: European Business Ethics Network
Publication Year: 2006
The European Business Ethics Network, EBEN, is the only international network dedicated wholly to the promotion of business ethics in European private industry, public sector, voluntary organizations and academia.
The Moral Instinct
Author: Pinker, Steven
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2008
The starting point for appreciating that there is a distinctive part of our psychology for morality is seeing how moral judgments differ from other kinds of opinions we have on how people ought to behave.
A Multilevel Investigation of the Motivational Mechanisms Underlying Knowledge Sharing and Performance
Authors: Quigley, Narda R.; Tesluk, Paul E.; Locke, Edwin A.; Bartol, Kathryn M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: INFORMS
Publication Year: 2009
This study draws on three different, yet complementary, theories of motivation, which we combine in an interactive manner, to explain the mechanisms that underlie the exchange between knowledge providers and recipients and ultimately impact performance. We argue that the findings constitute a useful advance in middle-range motivation theory pertaining to knowledge sharing and utilization.
A Confrontation of Mindsets: French Retailers Operating in Poland
Authors: Hurt, M.; Hurt, S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The CASE Journal
Publication Year: 2009
This case traces the history of French retailers setting up operations in Poland in the mid-1990s. The case, however, is set in 2006 when a top retailing executive recalls the important watershed period of 1996-1997 when the expatriate managers in charge of setting up the first hypermarkets encountered great difficulties with their new Polish recruits.
Enlarging the Societal Pie - A Cognitive Perspective
Authors: Bazerman, Max H.; Baron, Jonathan; Shonk, Katie
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School, Negotiation, Organizations and Markets Unit, Research Paper Series
Publication Year: 2001
Based on contemporary research in decision making, negotiation, and cognitive psychology, we offer a cognitive perspective to explain the failure of governments to create what Stiglitz (1998) calls near-Pareto improvements. We examine the role of human judgment in the failure to find wise tradeoffs across diverse applications of government decision-making...
Exploring the Locus of Profitable Pollution Reduction
Authors: King, Andrew; Lenox, Michael
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Management Science, Volume 48, No. 2
Publication Year: 2002
In this paper we explore the locus of profitable pollution reduction. We propose that managers underestimate the full value of some means of pollution reduction and so under exploit these means...
Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options
Author: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wiley
Publication Year: 1997
Destined to become a market classic, Dynamic Hedging is the only practical reference in exotic options hedging and arbitrage for professional traders and money managers.
Ethics in Decision Making
Author: Weinstein, Will
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: San Francisco State University, College of Business
Publication Year: 2006
This course will focus on identifying and solving real world ethical dilemmas present in daily life and will evaluate and recommend a variety of individual decision-making models.
Strategic Management
Author: McLaughlin, Thomas A.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Publication Year: 2006
This course explores the mission-based manager's need to think strategically and to act effectively in a dynamic environment. Students will develop skills for critically analyzing the components of markets, organizational structure, strategic plans, and strategic actions. The course material is highly varied and examines many types of organizations, the nature of the U.S. health and human services system, competition, technology, and the environmental and ethical considerations in decision-making.
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