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The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
Author: Friedman, Milton
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Speeches
Source: The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.
Publication Year: 1970
"When I hear businessmen speak eloquently about the "social responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise system," it's obvious that they believe that they are defending free enterprise
Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (A, B)
Author: Salter, Malcolm S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
Presents a brief historical overview of Enron's rise, its strategic successes and failures...
PowerPoint: The WorldCom Fraud
Author: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Publication Year: 2005
This PowerPoint presentation focuses on the WorldCom accounting fraud uncovered in 2002. It reviews WorldCom's rise to industry leadership, expansion, and eventual fall in the wake of one of the largest accounting scandals in history.
AES-Telasi: Power Trip or Power Play? (A, B, C)
Authors: Henisz, Witold J.; Zelner, Bennet A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Wharton School
Publication Year: 2006
While Michael Scholey was proud of what he and AES Corporation had accomplished so far in the Republic of Georgia, AES-Telasi had still incurred operating losses of $40m during its first year of operation, had already exceeded its ten-year investment target, and the company faced several important challenges going into its second year...
Doing Better at Doing Good: When, Why and How Consumers Respond to Corporate Social Initiatives
Authors: Bhattacharya, C.B.; Sen, Sankar
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2004
Although companies are devoting significant resources to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, insights into the optimal formulation, implementation, and effectiveness estimation of CSR strategies are currently scarce. This article takes an in-depth look at when, why, and how CSR works from a consumer's perspective...
The Enron Collapse
Authors: Hamilton, Stewart; Inna, Francis
Product Type: Cases
Source: International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2003
Charts the collapse of Enron and examines the role of various parties, including senior management, the board, and the auditors...
City Water Tanzania (A, B, C-A, C-B, D)
Authors: Branzei, Oana; McKague, Kevin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
This multi-part case series examines the Tanzania government's efforts to address a pressing deterioration in the infrastructure and services of Dar es Salaam's Water and Sewage Authority. It is ideally suited for core or elective courses in strategy and sustainability to illustrate the types of ongoing tensions and divergent decision angles that influence the formation and performance of public-private partnerships and managing in a global context.
What Happened at Enron?
Author: Moffett, M
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2004
On 2 December 2001, Enron Corporation filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11. One of the most highly publicized business debacles in history - its settlements, criminal charges, civil charges, and workouts will continue for years. But outside of the courts and sensational press, what really happened?
Productivity of Growing Global Energy Demand
Author: McKinsey Global Institute, The
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The McKinsey Global Institute
Publication Year: 2006
To date, the global debate about energy has focused too narrowly on curbing demand. Instead, the best way to meet the challenge of growing global energy demand may be to focus on energy productivity, which reconciles both demand abatement and energy-efficiency.
Everyday High Health Costs; One Giant's Struggle Is Corporate America's, Too
Author: Abelson, Reed
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
Back in the spring, amid relentless criticism that Wal-Mart Stores was failing to provide affordable health care to employees, executives at the company decided to take a detailed look at its benefits. Wal-Mart knew its health costs were spiraling upward out of control, said M. Susan Chambers, the senior executive who led the initiative, but it was surprised to discover that its critics had a point...
The End of Corporate Imperialism
Authors: Prahalad, C.K.; Lieberthal, Kenneth
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2003
As they search for growth, multinational corporations will have no choice but to compete in the big emerging markets of China, India, Indonesia, and Brazil. Although it is still common to question how such corporations will change life in those markets, Western executives would be smart to turn the question around and ask how multinationals themselves will be transformed by these markets...
What Are Mergers Good For?
Author: Morgenson, Gretchen
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
To most investors, mergers are the stock market's equivalent of catnip. Takeover bids typically provide a nice boost to investors' portfolios and confirm their stock-picking smarts. And to hear the executives orchestrating them tell it, they always produce greater profits at the combined company down the road...And yet, for all the profit and promise that mergers seem to hold, the truth about companies combining their operations is a darker one. Academic research suggests that few mergers add up to significantly more prosperous or successful companies...
A Road Map for Natural Capitalism
Authors: Lovins, Amory B.; Lovins, L. Hunter; Hawken, Paul
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 1999
No one would run a business without accounting for its capital outlays. Yet most companies overlook one major capital component--the value of the earth's ecosystem services...
Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause
Authors: Kotler, Phillip; Lee, Nancy
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: John Wiley & Sons
Publication Year: 2004
Today, corporations are expected to give something back to their communities in the form of charitable projects. In Corporate Social Responsibility, the authors explain why charity is both good P.R. and good for business.
Does Doing Good Always Lead to Doing Better?
Authors: Sen, Sankar; Bhattacharya, C.B.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Marketing Research, American Marketing Association, v38, 2.
Publication Year: 2001
In the face of marketplace polls that attest to the increasing influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on consumers' purchase behavior, this article examines when, how, and for whom specific CSR initiatives work.
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (A, B, C)
Author: Velamuri, S. Ramakrishna
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2003
The case outlines the difficulties faced by Strive Masiyiwa in his quest to operate a mobile telecommunications network in Zimbabwe...
AES Global Values
Authors: Strimling, Andrea L.; Nichols III, Charles A.; Paine, Lynn Sharp; Crawford, Robert J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2000
Members of the development team for the AES Corp.'s power plant project in India must decide between more expensive technology that would enable the plant to meet more demanding U.S. environmental standards or less costly technology that would meet local environmental standards and free up funds for contributions to other needs of communities surrounding the projected plant.
Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Programme in Rural Bangladesh
Authors: Richardson, Don; Ramirez, Ricardo; Haq, Moinul
Product Type: Cases
Source: TeleCommons Development Group
Publication Year: 2000
GrameenPhone is a commercial operation providing cellular services in both urban and rural areas of Bangladesh, with approximately 40,000 customers. A pilot programme of GrameenPhone, through the Grameen Bank and a wholly owned subsidiary called Grameen Telecom, is enabling women members of the Grameen Bank's revolving credit system to retail cellular phone services in rural areas...
Broken Trust: Role of Professionals in the Enron Debacle
Author: Nanda, Ashish
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
Discusses the role of professionals in the Enron debacle. Argues that professionals failed to prevent or predict Enron's collapse because of the conflicts of interest they faced...
For Business Ethics
Authors: Jones, Campbell; Parker, Martin; Ten Bos, Rene
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Routledge
Publication Year: 2005
For Business Ethics is a daring adventure into the world of business ethics. It offers a clear and accessible introduction to business ethics and also expands business ethics beyond its current narrow confines...
The Fall of Enron
Authors: Palepu, Krishna G.; Healy, Paul M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Publication Year: 2003
The Enron Odyssey (A): The Special Purpose of "SPEs"
Authors: Chacko, George; Dharan, Bala; Strick, Eli Peter
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2004
The board has asked Ron Tolbert, an employee in the Risk Assessment and Control Group, to analyze three SPE transactions executed by Enron executives: the Destec, Rhythms, and Fishtail/Bacchus transactions, which were prominently featured in the Examiner's Report in the ensuing Enron bankruptcy...
The Value of Corporate Values
Authors: Van Lee, Reggie; Fabrish, Lisa; McGaw, Nancy
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program; Booz Allen Hamilton
Publication Year: 2005
An Aspen Institute / Booz Allen Hamilton global survey of corporate behavior finds that leading companies are crafting a purpose drive identity...
DVD: Architecture to Zucchini
Author:
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Arnold Creek Productions
Publication Year: 2005
Architecture to Zucchini, a DVD, is an exploration of socially responsible businesses and the passionate leaders who drive them. These are the pioneers who have put the principles of sustainability to work. It features insights from leaders of nationally recognized organizations that serve industry, education, communities and government. Through interviews and tours, these pioneers reveal the impact of merging economic, social and environmental considerations in their business plans and operations. They share everything from lessons learned to the challenges they've faced – even the unexpected opportunities for strategic alliances, within and outside their industries.
Blue Ocean Strategy
Authors: Kim, W. Chan; Mauborgne, Renée
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Year: 2005
Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any company can use to create and capture blue oceans. A landmark work that upends traditional thinking about strategy, this book charts a bold new path to winning the future...
Catamount Energy and the Glebe Mountain Wind Farm – Clean Energy versus NIMBY
Author: Letovsky, Robert
Product Type: Cases
Source: St. Michaels College
Publication Year: 2005
The case presents the arguments both for and against wind generated electricity, or turbine wind farms. This debate is taking place as the state of Vermont considers placement of a wind turbine farm in the mountains of the state.
Manila Water Company
Authors: Rangan, V. Kasturi; Wheeler, David; Comeault, Jane
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This case discusses the post-privatization performance of the Manila Water Company in Manila, and the positive effects their emphasis on good corporate governance and sustainable development had on the city's residents, many of whom live in poverty.
Put Your Values to Work
Authors: McGaw, Nancy; Fabish, Lisa
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2006
What does it take to nurture corporate values, embed values in everyday decisions, and reap the benefits...
Selectpower - Green Energy in Ontario
Authors: Klassen, Robert; Merchant, Arif
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
Limited resources were forcing Selectpower's CEO to make some tough decisions about two important investment opportunities: its growing wind-derived electricity business; or the nascent geothermal business. Both options offered clear environmental benefits to customers, although the strategic value and immediate financial return to green energy retailer were less clear.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Authors: Paine, Lynn S.; Weber, James
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2004
Describes the evolution and passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 from the perspective of the senior counsel on capital markets for the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services...
Guidelines for Social Return on Investment
Authors: Lingane, Alison; Olsen, Sara
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review Volume 46 No. 3, Spring, 2004
Publication Year: 2004
Presents 10 standard guidelines for calculating social return on investment (SROI)--quantitative summaries of companies' social and environmental impacts, actual or projected.
What Every Executive Needs to Know About Global Warming
Authors: Packard, Kimberly O'Neill; Reinhardt, Forest
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2000
Thanks to the development of the Kyoto Protocol--an international plan to limit carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases in the atmosphere--global warming is beginning to assume a prominent position on the agendas of business executives...
Adelphia Communications Corp.'s Bankruptcy
Authors: Gilson, Stuart C.; Villalonga, Belen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
This case illustrates failure in multiple aspects of corporate governance, including the board of directors, external auditors, and financial analysts.
Chronos
Author:
Product Type: Exercises; Web Sites
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development and University of Cambridge Programme for Industry 2003-2004
Publication Year: 2003
Chronos is an exciting new e-learning tutorial on the business case for sustainable development...
Beyond Off-shoring: Assessing Your Company's Global Potential
Author: Farrell, Diana
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2004
Companies have become aware that they can slash costs by offshoring: moving jobs to lower wage locations. However, few businesses have recognized the full scope of performance improvements that globalization makes possible, much less developed sound strategies for capturing those opportunities...
The Emerging Era of Customer Advocacy
Author: Urban, Glen L.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter, 2004
Publication Year: 2004
For decades, companies relied on push marketing to sell their products and services. Then, in the 1990s, the emphasis shifted to relationship marketing, as slogans such as "delight your customers" became the mantra of many marketers. But those tactics have been losing their effectiveness, particularly as the power of customers continues to grow...
The Enron Case That Almost Wasn' t
Authors: Barrionuevo, Alexei; Eichenwald, Kurt
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2006
Building Better Boards: A Blueprint for Effective Governance
Author: Nadler, David
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Jossey-Bass
Publication Year: 2005
Building Better Boards covers all the key issues facing boards in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era. It provides practical advice based on the authors' wide-ranging experience with major companies that have built successful boards...
World's 100 Most Sustainable Companies Announced at Davos
Author: GreenBiz.com
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: GreenBiz.com
Publication Year: 2006
The 2006 "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World" were announced at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos...
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
Authors: Hewlett, Sylvia A.; Buck Luce, Carolyn
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2005
Most professional women step off the career fast track at some point. With children to raise, elderly parents to care for, and other pulls on their time, these women are confronted with one off-ramp after another...
Executive Women and the Myth of Having It All
Author: Hewlett, Sylvia A.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review OnPoint
Publication Year: 2002
When it comes to having a high-powered career and a family, the painful truth is that women in the United States don't "have it all." At midlife, in fact, at least a third of the country's high-achieving women--a category that includes high wage earners across a variety of professions--do not have children...
Social Alliances: Company / Nonprofit Collaboration
Authors: Berger, Ida E.; Cunningham, Peggy H.; Drumwright, Minette E.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review, Volume 47, No. 1 Fall, 2004.
Publication Year: 2004
Companies are increasingly seeing corporate social responsibility as a key to long-term success and are collaborating with nonprofit organizations in various ways to establish themselves as good corporate citizens...
Sources of Environmentally Destructive Behavior: Individual, Organizational and Institutional Perspectives
Authors: Bazerman, Max H.; Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, 21: 39-79 (1999).
Publication Year: 1999
The question to consider is how individual and social behavior shape how the natural environment is perceived, and how individual, organizational, and institutional values perpetuate behavior that damages it.
Global Companies, Global Society: There is a Better Way
Author: Adler, Nancy
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 11 (No. 3), pp. 255-260
Publication Year: 2002
One of the clearest challenges of the 21st century is to create multinational organizations that support an economically vibrant and culturally diverse global society.
India's Negotiations Concerning the Dabhol Power Company 2001-2005
Authors: Cadieux, Danielle; Conklin, David W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
The purpose of this case is to discuss the negotiation between the various foreign investors and the government of India in an attempt to reactivate the Dabhol Power Company project. The 65% investment of Enron, alongside the lesser investments of nineteen other foreign companies made for a convoluted operation. Ultimately, in 2005 a settlement was negotiated.
Management: Inventing and Delivering its Future
Authors: Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel; Kochan, Thomas A.; Orlikowski, Wanda
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future, editors Thomas A. Kochan and Richard L. Schmalensee, Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2003
Publication Year: 2003
The authors begin from the premise that human capital and knowledge are the most important sources of value for the 21st century organization, and examine several core differences between the assumptions which underlie the 20th and 21st century work organization...
Halton Recycling, Ltd.
Authors: Prahinski, Carol; Fan, Ying
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
The operations manager at Halton Recycling wondered if converting to a more efficient single-stream operation would help reduce costs provide the company with significant competitive advantages.
The New York Times DealBook Blog
Author: Sorkin, Andrew Ross
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2006
Daily news on mergers & acquisitions, I.P.O.'s, venture capital and more.
Aguas Argentinas
Authors: Wells, Louis T.; De Royere, Alexandra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
The French-owned Aguas Argentinas faces a demand from the Argentine government that it renegotiate its concession to operate the Buenos Aires water and sewage services. This case discusses the privatization of infrastructure and international protection of foreign investor's property rights.
Capitalism at the Crossroads
Author: Hart, Stuart L.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wharton School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
Global capitalism stands at a crossroads—facing international terrorism, worldwide environmental change, and an accelerating backlash against globalization. Today's global companies are at a crossroads, too: finding new strategies for profitable growth has never been more challenging...
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