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Creating Sustainable Businesses through Social Intrapreneurism
Authors: Grayson, David; Spitzeck, Heiko; Alt, Elisa; McLaren, Melody
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management
Publication Year: 2013
This Occasional Paper explores the “enabling environment” for social intrapreneurs and identifies key factors that enable (and disable) innovation...
Kellogg School of Management/Aspen Institute Business and Society Conference: Rethinking ‘Shareholder Value’ and the Purpose of the Corporation
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Product Type: Video Collections; Web Sites
Source: Kellogg School of Management; The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2013
This two-day conference brought together leaders in business and academia to foster dynamic conversations about how corporations can respond to competing pressures to balance corporate social responsibility with shareholder value maximization.
Bill McKibben's Battle Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
Author: Greenfeld, Karl Taro
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
Publication Year: 2013
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McKibben believes that Americans have no choice but to end their consumption of cheap, carbon-producing fuels—immediately. So he’s waging an all-out campaign to prevent the biggest and most powerful fossil-fuel companies...
Britannia Industries Ltd.
Authors: Klassen, Robert; Chandrasekhar, Ramasastry
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
The CEO of Britannia Industries Ltd, a manufacturer of bakery products, was at a crossroads. After early signs of success, Britannia’s CEO faced two challenges. How should Britannia scale up the manufacture and distribution of social products? And, how should the firm develop the social products into a sustainable business?
Interview: Matthew Arnold on Steering Sustainability at JP Morgan
Author: Gunther, Marc
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Guardian
Publication Year: 2013
Marc Gunther interviews Matthew Arnold, JP Morgan Chase's head of environmental affairs on asking clients uncomfortable questions and identifying environmental and social risk in fracking and other practices...
A New Story for Business
Author: Freeman, R. Edward
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
Professor R. Edward Freeman speaks about the role of business in society, and encourages the audience to think differently about business… “Capitalism is the best system for social cooperation invented—ever.”
The Innovation Bottom Line: Findings from the 2012 Sustainability & Innovation Global Executive Study and Research Report
Authors: Kiron, David; Kruschwitz, Nina; Haanaes, Knut; Reeves, Martin; Goh, Eugene
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review; The Boston Consulting Group
Publication Year: 2013
How companies that see sustainability as both a necessity and an opportunity, and change their business models in response, are finding success.
Metropolitan Water Supply Authority: Evaluating Security Risks
Authors: McNett, Jeanne; Whitfield, Ronald
Product Type: Cases
Source: Northeastern University
Publication Year: 2013
The director of a rural metropolitan water supply facility faces a complex risk management challenge. The facility uses chlorine gas in its water treatment, largely because it has determined that chlorine is the most effective treatment available, in terms of safety, cost and environmental impact. However, a security report from the Department of Homeland Security suggests that chlorine, a hazardous chemical, can be used by terrorists, both during its transport to the treatment facility and at the facility itself...
How Manu Chandaria Mastered the African Market
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Interviews
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2013
In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton conducted by Ivorian entrepreneur and author Eric Kacou, Kenyan business tycoon Manu Chandaria reveals some of his secrets to business success in Africa. Chandaria discusses how other businesses and entrepreneurs can follow his lead and pursue socially responsible practices that benefit the communities in which they work.
How One Man Tried To Slim Down Big Soda From The Inside
Author: Charles, Dan
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: NPR
Publication Year: 2013
Many big food companies are caught in a dilemma these days. They want to rebrand themselves as merchants of health — Coca-Cola's new anti-obesity ads are just the latest example — but many of their profits still come from products that make nutritionists scowl. If there's one person who symbolizes this tension, it's Derek Yach.
Memo to CEOs: There's More to Managing Than Profits
Author: Porter, Michael E.
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: ReutersTV
Publication Year: 2013
In this 21 minute interview, Michael Porter, a Harvard professor and expert on U.S. competitiveness, says chief executives must shift their thinking away from simply making money to also considering how their companies' actions affect the nation...
PerkinElmer: Old Instrument Reuse and Recycling
Authors: Veleva, Vesela; Montanari, Anna; Clabby, Peter; Lese, Jonathan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
This case examines the business options for implementing a company-wide product take-back program. It focuses on PerkinElmer, a $1.9 billion global technology company developing diagnostics and biomedical products for the environmental and human health sectors. The company, which operates in more than 150 countries, is committed to community engagement, sustainable and ethical business practices and eco-innovative products, including a commitment to continuously reducing the environmental and health impacts of its products throughout their useful lives…
Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
Authors: Mackey, John; Sisodia, Rajendra S.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication Year: 2013
"Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.” In this book, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism.
Putting Shared Value into Practice
Authors: Cadman, Rick; Bildfell, Derek
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2012
The idea of creating shared value is deeply compelling, but “the how” and best practices can be difficult to propagate.
Rethinking Political Activity at Target
Authors: Richter, Brian; George, Anisha
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The focus of the case is on understanding firms’ campaign contributions and lobbying strategies — and their limits. The case centers on controversy facing Target Corporation in 2010...
Sustainability: How Stakeholder Perceptions Differ from Corporate Reality
Authors: Peloza, John; Loock, Moritz; Cerruti, James; Muyot, Michael
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2012
Many stakeholders, from customers to investors to employees to purchasing managers, report that sustainability is an important factor in their decision-making processes. Firms that integrate sustainability into their culture and business practices are better able to integrate sustainability messaging into mainstream communications.
LGBTA at Toronto-Dominion Bank in 2012
Authors: Maurer, Cara C.; Cornies, Andrew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
This case concerns the implementation and strategic direction of LGBTA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and ally) initiatives at TD Bank Financial Group...
Enbridge Michigan Oil Spill: Patrick Daniel's Challenge (A, B)
Authors: Seijts, Gerard; Watson, Thomas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
In 2010, approximately 20,000 barrels of oil being shipped south by Enbridge spilled into Michigan’s Talmadge Creek, contaminating wetlands around Battle Creek and the nearby county seat of Marshall, including a stretch of the Kalamazoo River. The CEO of Enbridge faced an almost impossible challenge. He needed to prove to American citizens — and to industry regulators, market watchers, company shareholders and Enbridge employees — that his company deserved to be judged on its own merits, not as a Canadian version of BP.
Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience
Authors: Carroll, Archie B.; Lipartito, Kenneth J.; Post, James E.; Werhane, Patricia H.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Today, it is expected that a corporation will be transparent in its operations; that it will reflect ethical values that are broadly shared by others in society; and that companies will enable society to achieve environmental sustainability as well as a high standard of living. As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, the social, political and economic landscape is once again shifting: the need for an informed public conversation about what is expected of the modern corporation has never been greater.
Coca-Cola FEMSA's Contribution to Peace
Authors: Gonzalez, Rosa Amelia; Layrisse, Francisco; Lozano, Gerardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network
Publication Year: 2012
In 2003, the FEMSA Corporation – a Mexican company – acquired 100% of the shares of the largest franchise of the Coca-Cola system in Latin America, and placed itself at the lead of the sales of carbonated beverages and other soft drinks in different countries of South America, including Colombia, which had been struggling with armed groups since the 1970s. This case explores how Coca-Cola FEMSA included different initiatives in its sustainability strategy, aimed at supporting the process of peaceful demobilization...
Cascade Engineering: Building Frontline Employee Programs for Triple Bottom Line Impact
Authors: Hu, Jennifer; Lowenberg, Melanie; Chojnacki, Rohini
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2012
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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?
H-E-B: Creating a Movement to Reduce Obesity in Texas
Authors: Alvarez, Jose B.; Riis, Jason; Salmon, Walter J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
In January 2012, H-E-B Grocery Co., a private retail chain with stores located in Texas and Mexico, was introducing its Healthy at H-E-B program to its customers. What CEO Craig Boyan had in mind was creating a state-wide healthy-living movement in Texas, where obesity was high relative to other states in the U.S. But how far to go with its employees and customers was a question that President and COO Craig Boyan and his team struggled with.
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Author: McMillan, Tracie
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Scribner
Publication Year: 2012
What if you can’t afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn’t escape as she watched the debate about America’s meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food’s true cost—which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters. From the fields of California, a Walmart produce aisle outside of Detroit, and the kitchen of a New York City Applebee’s, McMillan takes us into the heart of America’s meals.
The Christchurch Earthquake and Crusaders Rugby (A, B)
Author: Bryant, Murray J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
On February 2011, a large earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand, causing loss of life. The Crusaders, a major sports franchise headquartered in Christchurch, must plan for the season, given that its facility has been extensively damaged and the season has already commenced. The franchisee board, managers, coaches and players have to deal with this catastrophe and build morale in the community by deciding what to do.
Novo Nordisk: Managing Sustainability at Home and Abroad
Authors: Knudsen, Jette Steen; Brown, Dana
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Novo Nordisk is well known for striving to integrate its business activities in a financially, environmentally, and socially responsible way, and many Novo Nordisk employees proudly refer to Novo Nordisk as a “triple bottom line (TBL) company.” Novo Nordisk therefore faces new challenges concerning how best to organize its TBL program in a way that ensures a comprehensive approach throughout the organization, yet allows Novo Nordisk China to adopt initiatives that fit the Chinese business context.
School House
Author: Leipziger, Deborah
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2012
Rachel Weeks knew that she had what it takes to be an entrepreneur. She had the vision, guts, intelligence, and ability to work hard. Most of all she had a very good idea: to create School House, a clothing company that would pay workers a living wage. After several years of partnership with suppliers in Sri Lanka, School House faced severe challenges. Rachel decided to manufacture all of the School House product line in the United States. Will School House be able to continue its policy of paying a living wage in U.S.-based factories?
Our Baboon Moment: How Businesses Can Create Peace
Author: Fort, Timothy L.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Network for Business Sustainability
Publication Year: 2012
Timothy Fort, professor at the George Washington University School of Business, describes how existing business practices can support world peace.
American Apparel: Unwrapping Ethics
Authors: Cotte, June; Lee, Seung Hwan (Mark); Schuette, Brittany
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
American Apparel has socially progressive labour policies and uses significant environmental advances in its manufacturing process. In addition, it has a well-established philanthropic arm. Set against these socially responsible policies is the highly sexualized nature of the company’s advertising...
Employee Engagement and CSR: Transactional, Relational, and Developmental Approaches
Author: Mirvis, Philip
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2012
This article looks at the relevance of corporate social responsibility for engaging employees, including its impact on their motivation, identity, and sense of meaning and purpose...
Cutting out the Middle-Man: The Case for Direct Business Involvement in Environmental Justice
Authors: McCrory, Martin A.; Langvardt, Kyle T.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Employing as a jumping-off point a recent high-profile and multi-faceted scandal involving Penn State University and decision makers affiliated with it, this article explores a number of ethical decision making lessons to be learned from that scandal and considers how those lessons can be applied to a variety of decisions faced by corporate leaders...
Sustainability at Tetra Pak: Recycling Post-Consumer Cartons
Authors: Sharma, Garima; Ghatge, Indrajeet; Laszlo, Chris
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
This case delves into the problems that Tetra Pak India faces in its ambitious goal of recycling post-consumer cartons in India, and the approach that the company adopts in overcoming the obstacles...
Greening the Supply Chain: Best Business Practices and Future Trends
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2012
The more corporations around the globe focus on sustainability, the more they realize that their greatest challenges and opportunities often lie outside their own offices and manufacturing plants. To make a truly significant lifecycle leap, large companies have to work on greening their supply chains…
Maersk Line and the Future of Container Shipping
Authors: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Reinhardt, Forest; Nellemann, Frederik
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Maersk Line was hoping that customers would increasingly make sustainability a purchasing criterion, thus differentiating Maersk Line from competing carriers. Could sustainability really provide Maersk Line with a competitive advantage in an industry that was considered to be commoditized?
MSPL Limited: CSR and Sustainability in Mining
Authors: Gupta, Amit; Joseph, Amita
Product Type: Cases
Source: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
MSPL’s main source of revenue, the Vyasankere Iron Ore Mine (VIOM), was one of the largest iron ore mines in the private sector in India. The case deals with the choices and decisions regarding the numerous initiatives undertaken by the organization in sustainability and CSR. Were there other initiatives that MSPL should have undertaken? Was it even necessary for the company to carry out CSR activities in the local communities?
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
Authors: Marquis, Christopher; Villa, Laura Velez
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other types of social strategies deliver bottom line benefits.
The Business Case For Happiness
Authors: Aaker, Jennifer L.; Leslie, Sara Gaviser; Schifrin, Debra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Many leaders don’t know how much importance to place on happiness, if the concept is even on their radar screen. However, research shows¯time and time again¯that there are bottom line benefits that happiness provides...
Transformational Gaming: Zynga's Social Strategy (A, B, C)
Author: Hartman, Laura Pincus
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
In January 2009, Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of the immensely popular and successful Zynga Game Network met with his sister Laura Hartman, DePaul University business ethics professor, to discuss building a new brand of corporate social strategy. Pincus wanted to find a way that Zynga could have a greater social impact on the world. He and Hartman talked about creating a new social strategy that would naturally flow out of Zynga’s success in developing highly profitable interactive social games. The two of them wondered whether it was possible for one company to develop a strategy that would both be profitable and engender social change.
Intel: Exploring Market Opportunities in Water
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Edmondson, Amy C.; Serafeim, George; Farrell, Sarah E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Intel is looking to move beyond microprocessor manufacturing. Lorie Wigle, Intel’s General Manager of Eco Technology and President of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, wondered if water management presented the perfect opportunity for Intel to both innovate on an environmental challenge and expand its IT presence.
Tough Decisions at Marks and Spencer
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Serafeim, George; Armbrester, Kyle
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
In 2007, under the leadership of CEO Stuart Rose, the iconic British retailer Marks and Spencer, with great fanfare, announced its "Plan A" initiative. Based on the five essential pillars of climate change, waste, sustainable materials, fair partnership, and health, the plan sought to transform the company's practices. Key aspects of Plan A included more sustainable sourcing and influencing the business practices of the company's supply chain; communication to employees, customers and investors; and employee engagement. The case concludes with the tradeoffs involved in the decision of whether or not to install refrigerator doors in the grocery section of its stores. While the energy savings and reduced carbon emissions are relatively clear and easy to measure, the impact on customers and revenues is harder to assess...
Mining and Corporate Social Responsibility (A, B, C)
Authors: Puffer, Sheila M.; Wesley, David T.A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Northeastern University
Publication Year: 2012
The case takes place in Peru in the aftermath of the worst mercury spill in history. BHP Billiton, affected by the increased hostility toward mining companies, enters into an agreement with Oxfam to conduct training on sustainability and the impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects on communities...
Using Business Tools To Combat The World's Big Problems
Author: Miller, Kara
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: WGBH, Innovation Hub
Publication Year: 2012
We talk to experts about the rising tide of social entrepreneurship. Does it have the power to address some of the fundamental problems in society — hunger, health, poverty? And we check in with local companies who are trying to change their communities and the world...
Greenpeace's Unfriend Coal Campaign and Facebook
Authors: Sider, Michael; Bigus, Paul
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Facebook’s director of policy communications was faced with a situation caused by a YouTube video posted by Greenpeace. This video publicly critiqued the environmental sustainability of Facebook’s decision to build a new data center, its main objection being the fact that the new facility would be connected to a local utility provider that supplied electricity mainly from the burning of coal, one of the largest sources of global warming...
In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
Authors: Duhigg, Charles; Barboza, David
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2012
In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. However, the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions...
MO 637: Intrapreneurship: Leading Social Innovation in Organizations
Authors: Davis, Jerry; White, Chris
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Getting a major initiative to succeed in big organizations is much like leading a social movement. It takes being able to read the opportunity structure and thinking like an entrepreneur as one's career develops; mapping the social system to locate allies inside and outside the organization; mobilizing a team using available technologies; and framing the initiative in a way that motivates decision makers and makes the business case. In this class we aim to give a practical toolkit to those who wish to drive social and environmental change from within established organizations.
Values, Ethics, & Sustainability Syllabus
Authors: Delgado, Javier; Gentile, Mary C.; Mazutis, Daina; McMurray, Adela; Montiel, Ivan; Simmers, Claire
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Teaching Sustainability Professional Development Workshop, Academy of Management 2011
Publication Year: 2011
Designed by an international, multi-disciplinary group as part of the Teaching Sustainability Professional Development Workshops at Academy of Management 2011, this Values, Ethics and Sustainability course presents the role of business leader as one that connects with sustainability at multiple levels – self, others, the organization and society.
ABB's Hydropower Sustainability Dilemma
Authors: Busch, Timo; Dessain, Vincent; McCarthy, Kathleen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Adam Roscoe, head of sustainability at ABB Group, had to evaluate the content and the business consequences of a letter written by the non-profit organization International Rivers. The letter discussed the alleged violations of sustainability criteria when building the Nam Theun 2 dam in Laos. Roscoe needed to assess what implications the letter had for ABB.
Don't Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times
Author:
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Cleanest Line
Publication Year: 2011
Why run an ad in The New York Times on Black Friday telling people, “Don’t Buy This Jacket”? Patagonia argues that businesses need to make fewer things but of higher quality. Customers need to think twice before they buy.
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
Authors: Gino, Francesca; Toffel, Michael W.; van Sice, Stephanie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States, launched a carbon negative campaign that would offset more greenhouse gas emissions than were released by the company's operations and products. The case examines the controversies surrounding this program as well as the program's impacts on the environment and FIJI Water's brand image.
Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion
Authors: Mehta, Pavithra K.; Shenoy, Suchitra
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2011
Drawing inspiration from spirituality, and of all things, fast food franchises, Dr. V and his team (which now includes 21 ophthalmologists across three generations of his family) have created a global phenomenon. Infinite Vision is the first book to probe Aravind's history for the distinctive practices and values that unleashed its improbable success...
Natura Cosmeticos, S.A.
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Serafeim, George; Heffernan, James
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Rodolfo Guttilla, Director of Corporate Affairs for Natura Cosmeticos S.A., prepared for a meeting with key stakeholders to discuss the future of integrated reporting at Natura. How could the organization increase society's participation in the collaborative effort to develop new solutions to today's most challenging problems?
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