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Global Leadership: Redefining Success
Author: Adler, Nancy
Product Type: Syllabi
Source:
Publication Year: 2005
How can business leaders simultaneously optimize financial, social, and environmental performance? How can they help to create a prosperous, sustainable society that benefits us all? The Global Leadership Seminar is designed to prepare people for leadership at the intersection of business and society.
Fighting for a Living Wage: Income Distribution and "Life Chances"
Author: Luce, Stephanie
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: ILR Press
Publication Year: 2004
Labor, government, and business groups in contention over whether and how to implement a living wage ordinance at the city level.
Investing in Socially Responsible Companies Is a Must for Public Pension Funds – Because There Is No Better Alternative
Author: Sethi, S. Prakash
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics 56, 2005
Publication Year: 2005
With assets of over US $1.0 trillion and growing, public pension funds in the United States have become a major force in the private sector through their holding of equity positions in large publicly traded corporations...
Institutional Investors Find Common Ground with Social Investors
Author: Smith, Timothy
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming in the four book series, The Accountable Corporation, edited by Marc Epstein and Kirk Hanson, Praeger Publishing, 2005.
Publication Year: 2004
The integration of social and environmental considerations in the investment process was the exclusive realm of the so-called ‘social investor' until relatively recently...
A Contractarian Defense of Corporate Philanthropy
Author: Blair, Margaret
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stetson Law Review, Volume 28, # 1, Summer 1998.
Publication Year: 1997
Statutory and case law make it clear that corporate officers and directors have very wide discretion to direct reasonable amounts of corporate resources toward artistic, educational, and humanitarian causes, even if those causes have only a remote connection (or no obvious connection at all) to the business goals and profitability of the firm.
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.
Firm-Specific Human Capital and Theories of the Firm
Author: Blair, Margaret
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Chapter in Margaret M. Blair and Mark J. Roe, Editors, Employees and Corporate Governance. Brookings Institution Press, 1999.
Publication Year: 1999
Post-Enron Reflections on Comparative Corporate Governance
Author: Blair, Margaret
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Georgetown University Law Center. Working Paper Series.
Publication Year: 2002
Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance: A Post-Enron Reassessment of the Conventional Wisdom
Author: Blair, Margaret
Product Type:
Source: Chapter in Peter K. Cornelius and Bruce Kogut, Editors, Corporate Governance and Capital Flows in a Global Economy. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Publication Year: 2003
The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City
Author: Porter, Michael E.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review Article, #95310
Publication Year: 1995
The author argues that a sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage...
The Ethical Wealth of Nations
Author: Donaldson, Thomas
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Business Ethics, No. 27, 2000, pp. 21-31
Publication Year: 2001
This article examines the prospects of an ethical advantage of nations beyond the single dimension of trust.
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...
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'...
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...
Are Aliens Green? Assessing Foreign Establishments' Environmental Conduct in the United States
Authors: King, Andrew; Shaver, J. Myles
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Strategic Management Journal, 22.
Publication Year: 2001
Previous research has found that foreign-owned establishments often lack specific capabilities needed to respond to local business conditions and are held to a higher standard by local stakeholders. These establishments compensate, however, by possessing offsetting capabilities such as technological excellence...
Andrew Kuper on Innovative Business Strategies that Trigger Social Change
Author: Kuper, Andrew
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Interviews
Source: The United Nation's Global Compact Quarterly. Volume 2005, Issue 4.
Publication Year: 2005
The United Nation's Global Compact Quarterly recently interviewed Dr. Andrew Kuper on innovative business models that promote human rights and relieve poverty.
After Katrina: Rebuilding Places and Lives, City & Community
Author: Briggs, Xavier de Sousa
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: City & Community, Volume 5, Issue 2. American Sociological Association
Publication Year: 2006
In this article, the author briefly outlines this context and develops two arguments about rebuilding: First, that debates about returning versus relocating families, including the poor, should be grounded in the realities of the city's housing and labor markets and reflect informed choices, not anecdotes, about the preferences of the displaced; and second, that we should not rely on simplistic images of "community lost" to understand what the displaced stand to lose or gain by either moving back or moving on...
Africa: A Continent with a Huge Potential
Author:
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wall Street Journal Online/ G8 Summit 2007 Heiligendamm
Publication Year: 2007
At the moment various forums in Berlin are discussing the future of the African continent. One thing is quite clear – although Africa needs the support of the industrialised nations, the continent offers fantastic economic opportunities. Policy on Africa will thus be high on the agenda of the G8 Summit soon to be held under the German Presidency...
A Survey of Ecological Economics
Authors: Krishnan, Rajaram; Harris, Jonathan M.; Goodwin, Neva
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Island Press
Publication Year: 1995
The emergent discipline of ecological economics is based on the idea that the world's economies are a function of the earth's ecosystems–an idea that radically reverses the world view of neoclassical economics...
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...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Author: Diamond, Jared
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Publication Year: 2005
Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart.
Can't Find a Sure Bet? It May Be Time to Spread the Risk
Author: Lim, Paul J.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2005
WHEN equities are stuck in a rut, as they appear to be now, investors tend to say they are in a stock picker's market. Even if the major indexes are going nowhere, good ideas backed by big bets are supposed to make a portfolio fat.
But there's a problem with that theory today...
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.
Rising above Sweatshops
Authors: Hartman, Laura; Arnold, Denis; Wokutch, Richard
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Praeger Publishers
Publication Year: 2003
Workers have basic rights that should not be violated, notwithstanding the geographical locale of their work. But those rights often appear to conflict with the economic and commercial needs of both developing nations and multinational enterprises...
Public Action to Remedy Hunger
Author: Sen, Amartya
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Speeches
Source: The Hunger Project
Publication Year: 1990
Amartya Sen argues that systematic public action can eradicate the terrible and resilient problems of starvation and hunger in the world in which we live...
Philanthropy's New Agenda: Creating Value
Authors: Porter, Michael E.; Kramer, Mark R.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 1999
During the past two decades, the number of charitable foundations in the United States has doubled while the value of their assets has increased more than 1,100%. As new wealth continues to pour into foundations, the authors take a timely look at the field and conclude that radical change is needed...
New Markets, New Opportunities?: Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World
Author: Birdsall, Nancy
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Brookings Institution Press
Publication Year: 1999
Many of the countries that have recently converted to a market-based economic system have also experienced an alarming increase in income inequality a widening gap between the haves and have nots. But to what extent is the increase in inequality also increasing the opportunities for economic advancement particularly for those at the bottom of the economic ladder?
Nature and the Marketplace
Author: Heal, G.M.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Island Press
Publication Year: 2000
In recent years, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through mechanical means, at a tremendous economic and social cost. Nature and the Marketplace examines the controversial proposition that markets should be designed to capture the value of those services...
Natural Capitalism
Authors: Hawken, Paul; Lovins, Amory; Lovins, L. Hunter
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Back Bay Books; 1st edition
Publication Year: 2000
In Natural Capitalism, three top strategists show how leading-edge companies are practicing "a new type of industrialism" that is more efficient and profitable while saving the environment and creating jobs.
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...
Microeconomics in Context
Author: Goodwin, Neva
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Houghton Mifflin Company
Publication Year: 2004
Microeconomics in Context challenges conventional approaches to the field by covering the physical and social/psychological factors influencing economic activities before introducing underlying principles...
McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives : Confidence Index, April 2007
Author:
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Mckinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Executives around the world retain a positive economic outlook, despite less improvement in economic conditions than expected six months ago. Many plan to continue hiring, and the most senior executives are the likeliest to foresee larger workforces...
Maryland Legislature Overrides Veto on Wal-Mart Bill
Author: Wagner, John
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Washington Post
Publication Year: 2006
The Maryland legislature voted along party lines, defeating a Republican filibuster, and the preferences of Maryland's governor and the company Wal-Mart, to pass legislation which requires Wal-Mart to spend more on employee health care. This precedent-setting legislation is now being considered by more than thirty states...
Mapping the Global Capital Markets
Authors: Farrell, Diana; Marcheva, Aneta; Shavers, Tim
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2005
In-depth analysis of the financial assets of more than 100 countries shows that financial markets are becoming deeper, more liquid, and increasingly integrated...
Managing the Business Case for Sustainability
Authors: Schaltegger, Stefan; Wagner, Marcus
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Greenleaf Publishing Ltd
Publication Year: 2006
The difficulties in moving towards corporate sustainability raise the question of how environmental and social management can be integrated better with economic business goals...
Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector
Authors: Herzlinger, Regina E.; Grahling, Jeff
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2003
This course describes the public and private sources of financing of the U.S. health-care sector, and identifies the characteristics of insurance policies, their costs, the structure of the insurance industry, and the role of consultants and brokers...
Inequality and Globalization
Authors: Moss, David; Harrington, Anna; Schlefer, Jonathan
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Inequality represented a major issue at the dawn of the 21st century. By many measures, inequality had increased over the previous several decades, within both developed and developing countries. Whether global inequality (measured across countries or among the people of the world) increased remained controversial...
On The General Relativity of Fiscal Language
Authors: Green, Jerry; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Working Knowledge
Publication Year: 2007
Like time and distance, standard fiscal measures, including deficits, taxes, and transfer payments, depend on one's reference point/reporting procedure/language/labels. As such, they too represent numbers in search of concepts that provide the illusion of meaning where none exists...
Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
Author: Lichtenstein, Nelson
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: New Press
Publication Year: 2006
Wal-Mart is based on a spring 2004 conference of leading historians, business analysts, sociologists, and labor leaders that immediately attracted the attention of the national media, drawing profiles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the New York Review of Books...
Wal-Mart: A Case for the Defense, Sort of
Author: Bernstein, Aaron
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Business Week Online
Publication Year: 2005
Using the arcane insights of economics, an academic conclave ponders the hot-button question: Is Wal-Mart good or bad for the U.S.? The verdict: Yes, mostly.
Wal-Mart's Giant Sucking Sound
Author: Hindrey, Leo J., Jr.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Business Week Online
Publication Year: 2005
Using a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, Wal-Mart's executives are defiantly blasting back at opponents who have criticized the retail giant's shoddy labor practices...
Corporate Responsibility and Strategic Management
Author:
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: European Academy of Business in Society
Publication Year: 2007
To access and download PDF copies of the articles, click on the individual titles below. Corporate Responsibility, Strategic Management and the Stakeholder View of the Firm - Introduction and Editorial. Guest editors: Gilbert Lenssen, President, EABIS and Professor, University of Leiden (Netherlands); Francesco Perrini, Professor and Chair of Social Entrepreneurship, Bocconi University (Italy); Antonio Tencati, Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher, Bocconi University (Italy); and Peter Lacy, Executive Director, EABIS.
Coke Directors Agree to Give Up Pay if Company Misses Earnings Goals
Authors: Terhune, Chad; Lublin, Joann
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wall Street Journal
Publication Year: 2006
Coca Cola's latest plan to improve corporate governance requires directors to give up all of their compensation if the company fails to meet profit targets over the next three years...
The Dangers of Too Much Governance
Authors: Holstrom, Bengt; Kaplan, Steven N.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2003
Most people accept that innovating involves risk. If a gene therapy patient dies, regulators stiffen controls, but they don't make gene therapy impossible. Similarly, the United States must apply balance in addressing business scandals. Corporate governance problems call for safeguards, but not to the point of hobbling risk taking and economic growth. As dangerous as an Enron Corp is, even more dangerous would be a system designed to make all future Enrons impossible...
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...
Social Contracts and Marketing Ethics
Authors: Smith, N. Craig; Dunfee, Thomas W.; Ross, William T., Jr.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Journal of Marketing
Publication Year: 1999
In this article, the authors describe the need and the search to date for a normative moral foundation for marketing...
Rhetoric and Reality: Making Sense of the Income Gap Debate
Author: Levy, Frank
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 1999
What's the verdict on the U.S. economy's greater reliance on free markets in recent decades? The data alone won't give us easy answers. As economist Frank Levy points out, the numbers on economic well-being are so diverse that analysts can usually find support for their points of view...
Program on Corporate Governance
Author: John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: Harvard Law School
Publication Year:
The Program on Corporate Governance, operating within the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, seeks to facilitate research and scholarship about corporate governance.
African Choices
Author: Nnanna, Godwin
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: China Dialogue
Publication Year: 2007
Many Western companies have irreversibly damaged their reputations in Africa through a tragic disregard for local communities. Chinese corporations can avoid making the same mistakes, says Godwin Nnanna...
Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond
Author: Gallagher, Kevin P.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2004
Free Trade and the Environment examines the impact economic integration has on the environment, using Mexico, which transformed itself from one of the most closed economies to one of the world's most open, as a case study.
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