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Julia Stasch (A, B)
Authors: Meyer, Kirk O.; Eisenberg, Jonathan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1993
A successful woman executive attempts to integrate women into the construction trade in Chicago. Julia Stasch rose from office assistant to president and chief operating officer of a major Chicago real estate firm, Stein & Co. This case describes her campaign to create expanded opportunities for women and minority-owned businesses as suppliers to construction projects, and for women and minority workers on construction sites...
How to choose between growth and ROIC
Authors: Jiang, Bin; Koller, Timothy
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
One key to creating value is understanding how to manage the subtle balance between growth and returns on invested capital. Empirical evidence suggests that companies enjoying strong ROIC can afford to let it decline over the short term to pursue growth—and that companies with low returns are better off improving ROIC than emphasizing growth...
Do Majority-Minority Districts Maximize Substantive Black Representation in Congress
Authors: Epstein, David; O'Halloran, Sharyn; Cameron, Charles
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The American Political Science Review, Vol. 90, No. 4
Publication Year: 1996
Majority-minority voting districts have been advanced as a remedy to the underrepresentation of minority interests in the political process. Yet, their efficacy in furthering the substantive goals of minority constituents has been questioned because they may dilute minority influence in surrounding areas and lead to an overall decrease in support for minority-sponsored legislation...
The Devil Made Me Do It: Replacing Corporate Directors' Veil of Secrecy with the Mantle of Stewardship
Authors: Bagley, Constance E.; Page, Karen L.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: San Diego Law Review, Volume 36, No. 4, Fall, 1999.
Copyright 1999 San Diego Law Review. Reprinted with the permission of the San Diego Law Review Association.
Publication Year: 1999
This article argues that the nature of the corporate form coupled with an exclusive focus on shareholder value leads to economically and socially inefficient results...
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Coca-Cola Chile Foundation
Author: Herrera, J
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
Provides an overview of the Coca-Cola System in Chile and focuses on the Coca-Cola Chile Foundation (CCFCH), a non-profit organization dedicated to education...
Cisco Systems
Author: Kochan, Thomas A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work: Lessons from Leading Cases, MIT Sloan School of Management, Institute for Work and Employment Research
Publication Year: 1999
Cisco Systems, specializing in network systems that link computers and provide Internet communications, was founded in 1990. Employee compensation is closely tied to company and individual performance through stock ownership and profit-sharing, and performance is focused on customer satisfaction...
Promoting Fair Trade and Increasing Profits
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2004
The partnership between Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, a leader in the specialty coffee industry based in Waterbury,
Vermont and TransFair USA, a nonprofit fair trade certification
organization, has resulted in increased profits for Green
Mountain Coffee, a significant boost in fair trade coffee sales in
the United States, and fair compensation and direct access to
international markets for poor coffee growers.
Project Impact: The Affordable Hearing Aid Project
Authors: Cordes, Erika; Mair, Johanna
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2005
This case introduces David Green, a social entrepreneur with the mission of making advanced medical technology affordable and available to those in the third world...
Hilti: Our Culture Journey (Abridged)
Authors: Ward, J; Lief, C
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD - International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2006
Culture at Hilti was inseparable from strategy. So when challenged at several points in their history, the company relied on the strength and underpinnings of its corporate culture to see it through. Now, with new governance changes afoot, Hilti would need to leverage this valuable resource once again.
Lucent Technologies
Author: Kochan, Thomas A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work: Lessons from Leading Cases, Institute for Work and Employment Research, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Publication Year: 1999
Lucent was created in 1994 as part of AT&T's tri-vestiture. This case focuses on the dilemma faced by a new company that inherited a labor-management consultation structure developed by AT&T, a structure that has broken down in many respects, and that does not seem adequate to the challenges of the new company in a new and highly competitive market...
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