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Sexual Harassment, Free Speech or…?
Authors: Strimling, Andrea L.; Paine, Lynn S.; White, Wilda L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1994
Presents two brief vignettes about female employees who object to gender discrimination in their work environment. In one case, the manager of a convenience store removes "adult" magazines from the store's shelves because she sees them as damaging to women. In the other, a group of female employees of the Stroh Brewery Co. charge that the company's advertising creates an overall atmosphere of hostility to women...
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...
Pamela Spencer: Is the Customer Always Right?
Authors: Grippi, C; Mullins, J; Brown, C
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2000
The new manager of a high-end retail home improvement store must deal with an irate customer who is dissatisfied with the installation of a fence supplied and installed by the store.
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...
Migros: Sustainable Supply Chain Strategy (A, B)
Authors: Hamprecht, Jens; Corsten, Daniel
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of St. Gallen; London Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Migros had already succeeded in many project phases regarding their purchase of sustainable palm oil for their products. How were they to ensure that not only the environment but also Migros benefited from the project? The Migros board had already invested significant sums. By Monday morning, it demanded to be informed on the further project steps...
John Mackey and Whole Foods Market
Authors: Koehn, Nancy F.; Miller, Katherine
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
This case discusses the rapidly growing business of organic foods, analyzes entrepreneurial agency in the context of a young market, and examines the role of social as well as organizational leadership in the 21st century.
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.
Wal-Mart: 'On the Side of the Angels'
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Business Week Online
Publication Year: 2007
CEO Lee Scott talks about going green, aiming for the affluent, battling opponents, and what it's like to be a major issue in the 2008 Presidential campaign...
IKEA: Past, Present, and Future
Authors: Denison, D.; Lief, C
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD - International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2008
Ingvar Kamprad's childhood experiences informed his approach not only to furniture retailing, but more broadly to life.
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.
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