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Authors: Hu, Jennifer; Lowenberg, Melanie; Chojnacki, Rohini
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2012
Fred Keller stepped down from the podium at a local park in Grand Rapids, Michigan and stared at the Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovation in his hands. Under his watch as Founder and CEO of Cascade Engineering, the manufacturing company had blossomed into a successful and diversified enterprise. Keller considered Cascade’s future strategy: How could his company continue enabling success while maintaining the proper balance across its Triple Bottom Line mission?
Authors: Konrad, Alison; Mainiero, Lisa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
This case provides six real-life examples of office romance. In each case, students have an opportunity to consider how well the parties to the romance have conducted a romance in a business context and what leaders could have done to manage the situation.
Authors: Musacchio, Aldo; Vietor, Richard H.K.; Schlefer, Jonathan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
By mid-2009 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had ended decades of virtual civil war and strengthened the business climate, but he faced tough economic challenges. Though he had instituted prominent market reforms and brought inflation down sharply, Colombia seemed stuck in a middle ground, industrially behind Brazil or Chile but ahead of poorer Latin American countries.
Authors: Bruns, Sharon; Harmeling, Susan S.; Bruns, William J., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Publishing Brief Cases
Publication Year: 2008
At Merrimack Tractors and Mowers in 2008, product manufacturing costs are increasing faster than competitors' costs, and as a result earnings are likely to fall below those reported in 2007.
Authors: Bagdadli, S.; Bizzi, L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: SDA Bocconi
Publication Year: 2009
The objective of this case is to stimulate reflection on organisational and human resource management problems occurring in companies facing rapid change.
Authors: Bruner, Robert F.; Carr, Sean; Debaere, Peter
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
The case discusses and analyzes the runup to the financial panic of 1907 and its aftermath.
Authors: Battilana, Julie; DeLong, Thomas J.; Weber, James
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, faces in early 2009. Dorsey has to decide whether, and if so, how to change Echoing Green's strategy as well as whether she is the right person to continue to lead the organization.
Authors: Purkayastha, D.; Faheem, Hadiya
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
This case details the activities taken up by Coca-Cola India's management and employees to contribute to the society and community in which the company operates.
Author: Story, J
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2009
Located in the province of Cordoba, Argentina, El Castillo is a castle built in the early twentieth century, and now run as a hotel by the Fabrega family who are in the business of international and ecological tourism. El Castillo emphasises that it is the only ecotourist facility in Argentina. The case may also be used to develop students skills in thinking about the future.
Authors: Pistoni, Anna; Songini, Lucrezia
Product Type: Cases
Source: European Academy of Business in Society
Publication Year: 2008
Enel was Italy’s largest power company and Europe’s second largest listed utility in terms of installed capacity.
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Cases; Exercises
Source: Giving Voice to Values Curriculum Initiative
Publication Year: 2008
This exercise illustrates the basic strategy for addressing any values-based decision using the Giving Voice to Values approach.
Authors: Cousins, R; Benitz, L
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 1998
George Stein, a college student employed for the summer by Eastern Dairy, must decide if he is going to remove the filters from the plant's piping and thus allow the current production run of milkshake mix to become contaminated.
Authors: Goldberg, Ray A.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Preble, Matthew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Dr. and Anil Jain are trying to understand how they can take the success they have had in helping India's farmers boost production and productivity through JISL's micro-irrigation systems and continue to tailor their services to meet the needs of Indian farmers.
Authors: O'Connor, Neale; Loo, Grace
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2011
The case explores the challenges and difficulties of running a joint venture, especially when more than one jurisdiction is involved. It alerts students to the importance of a vigilant monitoring system in joint-venture exercises and challenges them to take on the role of a negotiator in a difficult business situation.
Authors: Spital, Francis; Wesley, David T.A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2010
The case describes the challenges faced by Ford and other automobile manufacturers in an era of declining oil reserves and volatile fuel prices.
Author: Cespedes, Frank V.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This case study provides an overview of Intuit's growth and, in particular, the sales and service initiatives that historically fueled the company's growth from start-up to a corporation.
Authors: Purkayastha, D.; Faheem, Hadiya
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2008
This case is about the collective bargaining agreement between one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers, General Motors Corporation (GM), and the United Auto Workers (UAW) in late 2007.
Author: Patel, Taran
Product Type: Cases
Source:
Publication Year: 2006
This case study highlights the complexity of managing high performers. It raises the issue of motivation and suggests that a competent manager needs to understand how different motivational tools are required to motivate different kinds of employees.
Author: Bartlett, Christopher A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Describes the evolution of Microsoft's human resource philosophies, policies, and practices and how they were used as a core of the company's competitive advantage. In particular, the case focuses on how Microsoft has tried to retain its ability to recruit, develop, motivate, and retain first class talent as it grew from a start-up to a global behemoth...
Author: Dash, Kishore
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2005
McDonald's relative success in India has several important lessons for global multinational corporations that are interested in exploring the challenges and opportunities in emerging markets. Given the unique cultural space of India, where most people do not eat beef and pork and prefer vegetarian foods, and where people's food habits are dominated by regional food preferences, how could a beef-based hamburger chain achieve success?
Authors: Hendry, John; Mellor, Kate; Hak, Zain; Ade-Ajayi, Funmi; Vieira, Waldir; Zou, Yuan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Cambridge Judge Business School
Publication Year: 2000
This case reviews the public controversy surrounding Shell's operations in Nigeria in the 1990s...
Authors: Seijts, Jana; Bigio, Benjamin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
On March 17, 2010, the chairman of the board of directors was caught off guard because of a YouTube video created by the environmental activist group Greenpeace. Within 24 hours, the video had more than 100,000 views and anti-Nestlé campaigns quickly emerged on Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks around the world...
Authors: Kourilsky, M.; Walstad, W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Senate Hall Academic Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
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.
Authors: Alemany, L.; Gonzalvo, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ESADE
Publication Year: 2008
This case presents the story of a wind farm start-up in the north of Spain. The main teaching objective is to understand the importance of financial planning for entrepreneurs.
Authors: John, D.; Girija, P.; Nightingale, F
Product Type: Cases
Source: IBS Research Center
Publication Year: 2008
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.
Authors: Cummings, Christopher A.; Lovejoy, William; Molinaro, Lawrence, Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: World Resources Institute
Publication Year: 1995
Tempes, a fictitious manufacturer of precision equipment for "extreme" sports, needs to decide between two different designs for its Water Moccasin, a device designed to provide readings of depth, pressure, and temperature.
Author: Richards, E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: CIBER Case Collection, Indiana University
Publication Year: 2002
The HIV/AIDS crisis has spurred growing demands for cheaper substitutes for these antiretrovirals, suggesting that more and more countries may permit the sale of cheaper substitutes even before the patents expire. While American Pharmaceutical may legally challenge such activities, it is not clear if the challenges would be legally successful or if they would be politically or commercially prudent.
Authors: Rothenberg, Sandra; Lenox, Michael; Jordan, Benjamin; Field III, Frank
Product Type: Cases
Source: World Resources Institute
Publication Year: 1998
Alpha Motors, a subsidiary of a large U.S. automaker, sought a life-cycle analysis (LCA) tool that could help product designers take account of environmental issues when making materials choices. The primary teaching objective of this case...
Authors: Heisz, Mary; Lehnert, Robert
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
While on his first visit to Haiti, the entrepreneur realized the potential for economic development in a country that was rich in certain resources and virtually unexplored by the private sector. He and his three partners quickly got started and imported their first burlap sack of coffee and by November 2011 began offering their product for sale, a premium coffee from Southeastern Haiti with a brand focused on assisting the redevelopment and sustainability of the Haitian coffee industry.
Authors: Darnall, Nicole; Milstein, Mark B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Arizona State University; Cornell University
Publication Year: 2011
General manager Glenn Knape is considering branding Damaí as a “green” hotel. Since the hotel already had numerous environmental initiatives in place, Knape questioned whether Damaí should participate in a voluntary environmental program and use its participation as a marketing tool to attract additional hotel business. Were these programs really worth the investment?
Author: Kochan, Thomas A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work: Lessons from Leading Cases, Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
Publication Year: 1999
Southwest Airlines has consistently been successful in terms of profitability, good employee and union relations, and customer satisfaction – at a time when most airline carriers are struggling in all these areas. Central to the company's success is a culture of flexibility, family-orientation, and fun...
Authors: Goodwin, Nigel; Hardy, Kenneth G.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
Eat2Eat.com was an Internet-based restaurant reservation service covering a dozen cities in the Asia Pacific region. The case focuses on entrepreneurial marketing with sub-themes of financing and small enterprise management. It is a story of an entrepreneur who had an idea and enough money to launch it, but then struggles to achieve adequate scale...
Authors: Johnson, Allison; Dudo, Laurie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
This case examines the dynamics of the corporate sponsorship relationship and how it benefits both donors and recipients. Specifically discusses how 3M's brand manager for Post-it brand office products can further activate the relationship with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
Authors: Gopalkrishnan, C; Patel, Anar
Product Type: Cases
Source: Institute of Management, Nirma University of Science & Technology
Publication Year: 2008
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.
Authors: Uludere, N.; Reinhardt, Forest; Trumbull, G.; McGrath, Patia
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
This piece summarizes the science and economics of climate change, and encourages readers to contemplate the strategic and risk management problems that it presents to government officials and to business leaders in developed countries and in the developing world.
Authors: Tan, David; Tan, Justin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Amway is a large manufacturer of household products that uses the direct selling approach. It has expanded into different markets over the years, most recently the Chinese market. However, the company must look at its strategy after the Chinese government implements regulations on the direct marketing business model...
Author: Dana, Teresa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Nanyang Business School
Publication Year: 1998
Tourism is on the rise and this couldn't be truer for the Greek island of Ios. Acteon Travel is one of the best-represented agencies on the island. Questions arise as to the ethics surrounding how this company maintains its leadership position...
Author: Kray, Laura J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
With the controversy surrounding Larry Summers' comments about innate differences between men and women as a backdrop, examines whether and when gender differences exist in the competitive negotiation arena.
Author: Lau, Geok T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: North America Case Research Association, Case Research Journal, Spring, 2000; The Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 2000
In late 1995, John Peter, a marketing manager of Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific Limited, was evaluating the division's strategic options for doing business in Vietnam. John needed to recommend whether HPAP should enter the Vietnam market in a more strategic fashion...
Authors: DeLong, Thomas J.; Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
This case emphasizes the role of culture in building a successful company as well as the difficulty in transforming a sense of that culture into concrete hiring decisions...
Authors: Hoffman, Richard C.; Brown, Marvin O.; Shipper, Frank
Product Type: Cases
Source: Salisbury University
Publication Year: 2013
MBC Ventures, Inc. (MBC), known as the Maryland Brush Company until a name change in 2011, is a 100 percent employee-owned United Steelworker ESOP established in 1990. Throughout its recent history, the 161 year old business has steadily increased its stock value. However, the future is less certain today as the firm’s traditional brush business has matured, and its recent efforts at diversification have yet to be realized. The firm has proven to be quite resilient over the years having averted closure after being sold by PPG Industries in 1990. In an unusual partnership, the United Steelworkers of America union helped the firm’s new owner-managers convert to an ESOP as part of a reorganization. This effort saved jobs and the company. Since that time, the firm’s employees have proven to be its most valuable asset and a key source of its competitive advantage.
Authors: Leonard, Herman B.; Giles, David; Howitt, Arnold
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Kennedy School
Publication Year: 2013
Following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in late April 2010, the Obama administration organized a massive response operation to contain the enormous amount of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico. This two-part case profiles the efforts of senior officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as they struggled to coordinate the actions of a myriad of actors, ranging from numerous federal partners (including key members of the Obama White House); the political leadership of the affected Gulf States and sub-state jurisdictions; and the private sector.
Authors: Collins, Eva; Kearins, Kate; Tregigda, Helen; Bowden, Steve
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Waikato; Auckland University of Technology
Publication Year: 2013
In June 2012, serial ecopreneur, Chris Morrison, was wondering just how many All Good Bananas he could sell into banana-hungry New Zealand. From trials bringing Fairtrade bananas to New Zealand in 2008, All Good Bananas had grown to take 5% of the market share in a fiercely competitive industry dominated by large multi-national corporations with a legacy of poor environmental and social practices in the countries where the bananas were grown.
Authors: Smith, N. Craig; Crawford, Robert J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2013
Ziqitza Health Care Limited (ZHL) is an Emergency Medical Services company founded by five social entrepreneurs in India in 2002, which by 2012 operated 860 ambulances across five states. The case is focused on bribery, a problem in many parts of the world, but especially in India. It is highly topical given recent anti-corruption protests in India. It is also unusual (if not unique) because it was developed with the company’s participation (a taboo subject, bribery cases are typically “arm-chaired” or based on secondary sources). It provides not only a rich description as a basis for discussion of this difficult managerial issue—including how such solicitations typically arise—but also highlights the opportunities for organizations looking to respond appropriately and effectively to bribery requests.
Authors: Agarwal, Manish; Satish, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: IBS Hyderabad
Publication Year: 2013
Even in 2012, lack of electricity is a major issue in the Indian hinterlands. Many remote villages were not electrified and even those that were, have power supply for just a few hours in a month. This problem was acute in the state of Bihar in North India. Gyanesh Pandey, who grew up in Bihar experiencing the shortage of electricity, came up with a unique model to generate and distribute power to the poor who lived in the remote parts of India by using an indigenously developed modified gasifier system that runs on rice husk. The enterprise, Husk Power Systems (HPS), won many awards for its innovative business plan, social entrepreneurship, and for producing clean energy.
Authors: Marshall, Scott; Brown, Darrell; Sakarias, Bex; Cai, Min
Product Type: Cases
Source: Portland State University
Publication Year: 2013
Brett Beach and Tim McCollum, co-founders of Madécasse, spent two years as Peace Corps volunteers in Madagascar. During that time, they fell in love with the country and its people. Recognizing the need of the Malagasy for stable jobs and fair wages and the connection between poverty and environmental destruction, Brett and Tim discussed possibilities for a social enterprise in the country.
Authors: Purkayastha, Debapratim; Rao, Adapa Srinivasa
Product Type: Cases
Source: IBS Hyderabad
Publication Year: 2013
This case is about Novo Nordisk, one of the leading global healthcare companies. Novo Nordisk started to focus on sustainability when its predecessor Novo faced criticism regarding its business practices in the late 1960s. A pioneer in sustainability reporting, the company introduced several sustainability related initiatives like the Novo Nordisk Way of Management and the Triple Bottom Line philosophy. A new sustainability strategy was developed for Novo Nordisk in the year 2000 which put global health at the center of its sustainability initiatives. These initiatives led to the integration of sustainable development with the company’s business strategy. Novo Nordisk also put a lot of focus on reducing the impact of its business operations on the environment. It initiated a new innovative partnership model to reduce its CO2 emissions and this was followed by many other companies in the world.
Author: Silverman, Murray
Product Type: Cases
Source: San Francisco State University
Publication Year: 2013
This is a case about the threats to the world’s oceans seen through the lens of the $30 billion per year cruise line industry. There is a focus on Holland America Lines (HAL) as a sustainability leader in the industry. HAL has implemented a number of beyond compliance and efficiency initiatives and is ISO 14001 certified. The cruise line industry, and the maritime industry in general, have significant impacts on the oceans through their emissions, discharges and shore practices. These impacts are not necessarily the primary stresses on our oceans, so the case provides a broad perspective on the threats to the oceans and the associated regulatory environment.
Author: Subramanian, Ram
Product Type: Cases
Source: Montclaire State University
Publication Year: 2013
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (CMG) was a Denver, Colorado-based chain that competed in the fast casual segment of the restaurant industry. The chain offered a range of Mexican food items in its 1,316 restaurants, which were predominantly in the United States. Founder and current co-CEO, Steve Ells had emphasized not only good tasting food but also a commitment to sustainability early on in the company’s history.
Authors: Ickis, John; Garcia, Ximena; Prado, Andrea
Product Type: Cases
Source: INCAE Business School
Publication Year: 2013
This case describes how Florida Ice & Farm (FIFCO), Costa Rica’s leading beverage company, develops and implements a triple bottom line strategy that addresses not only its financial returns but also its social and environmental performance. This initiative was adopted during the financial crisis, severely testing FIFCO’s commitment to sustainability.
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