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Access Teaching Module
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: 
[1 Faculty Rating] 11463 views
Access, to new markets and materials, to new sources of labor and information, to new communities and new ideas, is crucial to business, and can also serve as a way to spread the benefits of economic development to people and their communities. How does access bring value to business and society and can it also be used to reduce the downside of globalization?
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream Inc.: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive
Author: Theroux, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1991
Ben & Jerry's is an anti-establishment, values-driven company that has become a successful venture. The dominant founder, Ben Cohen, is not an effective manager, but he brings creative marketing and product skills that have been important to the company's success...
Nike Inc.: Developing an Effective Public Relations Strategy
Authors: Everett, Donna R.; Slaughter, Kathleen E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2000
It had been almost a decade since the first article surfaced in the media alleging that factories sub-contracted by Nike in China and Indonesia were forcing workers to work long hours for low pay, and for physically and verbally abusive managers. The article was the seed of a media campaign that created a public relations nightmare for the company...
BP and Corporate Greenwash
Author: Sider, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
BP's green re-branding efforts began officially with the unveiling of its new BP Helios mark, named after the Greek sun god. However, environmental groups heaped scorn on BP's green re-branding. Greenpeace gave the company its Greenhouse Greenwash Award, given to the largest "corporate climate culprit" on earth.
Framing Social Issues for Business
Authors: Scully, Maureen; CasePlace.org
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2004
As policy and business issues continue to intersect, it has become increasingly important for various stakeholders to frame issues in business terms, in order to "sell" them to businesses and generate greater attention.
Wal-Mart: 21st Century Leadership
Author: Scott, Lee
Product Type: Speeches
Source: www.WalMart.com
Publication Year: 2005
On October 24, 2005, Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart, delivered a groundbreaking and, some would argue, long overdue speech commiting the world's largest corporation to become a significant positive force for social and environmental stewardship.
Starbucks C.A.F.E Practices Program: Ensuring a Socially Responsible Supply Chain
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2008
Starbucks Coffee Company’s C.A.F.E (Coffee and Farmer Equity) Practices program ensures that Starbucks sources sustainably grown and processed coffee by evaluating the economic, social and environmental aspects of coffee growing along the supply chain.
Access: Business and Society
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
How does access make a difference when it comes to corporate social responsibility or to the social and environmental costs of globalization, and how are businesses affected by increased connectivity to communities, to nonprofits, or to stakeholders?
Anatomy of a Corporate Campaign: Rainforest Action Network and Citigroup
Authors: Yurday, Erin; Baron, David P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2004
Citigroup, the world's largest project finance bank, provided financing for extractive projects such as mining, logging, and oil exploration. Some of these projects took place in developing countries and in rainforests and other endangered ecosystems. In 2000, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) launched its Global Finance Campaign with Citigroup as the target. The goal was to convince Citigroup, and eventually all lenders, to stop financing destructive activities in endangered ecosystems...
Monsanto Europe (A, B)
Authors: Wesley, David T.A.; Lane, Henry W.; Spital, Francis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Monsanto, one of the world's largest producers of commodity chemicals, had decided to focus its operations on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The first shipment of genetically modified soybeans arrived in Europe in November of 1996...
PETA's Kentucky Fried Cruelty, Inc. Campaign
Authors: Seijts, Gerard; Sider, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
A year and a half after calling off their campaign against fast-food giant McDonald's, the vegan campaign coordinator of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), contacted Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) to warn them that they would be the next target.
McDonald's and the Environment (A)
Author: Livesey, Sharon M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1993
McDonald's decides to withdraw its polystyrene plastic packaging for sandwiches and hamburgers after years of defending itself against environmental critics...
W. R. Grace & Co. and the Neemix Patent (A, B)
Authors: Werhane, Patricia H.; Severance, Kristi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 1999
Neemix is a natural biopesticide developed by W. R. Grace from the neem tree, which is indigenous to rural India. Because of its medicinal and religious use by rural Indians for more than a thousand years, the Foundation on Economic Trends is protesting Grace's patenting of Neemix...
Video: Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
Author: FRONTLINE
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: WGBH Educational Foundation
Publication Year: 2005
In this film, Frontline explores the relationship between U.S. job losses and the American consumer's insatiable desire for bargains in "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?"
The Burma Pipeline
Authors: LaMure, Lane T.; Spar, Debora L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2000
In 1996, Unocal Corp. joined forces with the French Total company to construct an ambitious natural gas pipeline from the Andaman Sea across the southern tip of Burma and into Thailand. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion, the pipeline was designed to bring sorely needed energy supplies into both Thailand and Burma, and to serve as a linchpin for Unocal's expanding Asian strategy...
Burroughs Wellcome and the Pricing of AZT (A)
Author: Liedtka, Jeanne M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 1991
Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), finds itself under siege in September 1989 by AIDS activists and various segments of the U.S. government...
The Sekem Initiative
Authors: Seelos, Christian; Mair, Johanna
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2004
"The Sekem Initiative" portrays a complex set of circumstances that frames Sekem's decisions to further grow and develop the initiative along its historical path of holistic development in the social, economic and cultural spheres...
The Great Leap: Driving Innovation From the Base of the Pyramid
Authors: Hart, Stuart L.; Christensen, Clayton M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review. Fall 2002, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 51-56
Publication Year: 2002
As multinationals unrelentingly seek new growth to satisfy shareholders, they increasingly hear concerns from many quarters about environmental degradation, labor exploitation, cultural hegemony and local autonomy. What is to be done? Must corporations' thirst for growth and profits serve only to exacerbate the antiglobalization movement?
Baybank Boston
Authors: Dees, J. Gregory; Remey, Christine C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1993
In 1992, the Federal Reserve released a study of mortgage lending patterns in Boston. It concluded that even when credit factors were taken into account, black and Hispanic applicants experienced higher rejection rates...
Access: Outsourcing
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 3187 views
How businesses can access the benefits of a global marketplace without falling prey to the accompanying risks is a critical question.
Dr. Iqbal Surve at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Hill, Linda A.; Stecker, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self-described “medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur,” was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer “a gentler capitalism” that stressed putting people before profits, and talent development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans.
The Path to Corporate Responsibility
Author: Zadek, Simon
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2004
Nike's tagline, "Just do it," is an inspirational call to action for the millions who wear the company's athletic gear. But in terms of corporate responsibility, Nike didn't always follow its own advice...
Nestle: Singled Out Again and Again
Author: Saunders, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: Loughborough University; De Montfort University
Publication Year: 1996
This case outlines the twenty years of boycott and social protests against Nestle for its promotion and distribution of infant formula in third world countries. The case presents both sides of the issue as Nestle continues to stand behind its manufacturing and distribution of the formula on grounds of ‘saving a child's life'...
In the Shadow of the City
Authors: Reed, James; Richardson, Nicholas; Donnellon, Anne
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1990
Traces the history of a collaborative effort to create an organization to manage a major international development project in the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Focuses on a serious set of disagreements which develops several months into the project between the two principals, an Ethiopian woman who founded the project and a British entrepreneur who is the coordinator of the donor consortium...
McDonald's: A Global Cultural Icon?
Authors: Faulk, Saskia; Usunier, Jean-Claude
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Lausanne
Publication Year: 2004
This macro-marketing case describes the experience of McDonald's as it expanded internationally at a sensitive historical moment, and how the corporation's country of origin affected perceptions of consumers in certain regions. The case examines instances of violence and boycotts targeted at McDonald's, and anti-McDonald's activity in many parts of the world.
Shell Oil in Nigeria
Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: North American Case Research Association, Case Research Journal, Winter 1997; The Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 1997
Royal Dutch/Shell, a major oil company, faced widespread international criticism following the execution of Nigerian novelist and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in November 1995...
World Vision International's AIDS Initiative
Authors: Bartlett, Christopher A.; Curran, Daniel F.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
World Vision's International office is planning to implement a major global HIV/AIDS initiative that challenges the strategic direction, organizational capabilities, and even underlying values of its carefully constructed world partnership. Analyzes the challenges of building and managing a global network organization and explore the task of implementing strategic change in a complex, global environment.
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.
Economics and Peace Teaching Materials Portal
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This collection offers resources to help teach business students about peace. We hope this collection grows and encourages further inquiry into the business and peace nexus.
Access: New Markets, New Methods
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
As businesses reach new markets they not only find more resources and consumers, but also new ways of doing business.
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...
Aligning Corporate Performance with Community Economic Development to Achieve Win-Win Impacts
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: 2001
J.P. Morgan Chase (formerly the Chase Manhattan Bank) has created an organizational structure to drive business and community development across the organization...
Volkswagen in the Global War Against HIV/AIDS
Authors: Bruzzi Boechat, Cláudio; Werneck, Nísia Duarte; Masilela, Temba; Miraglia, Letícia
Product Type: Cases
Source: UN Global Compact Learning Forum
Publication Year: 2004
The HIV/AIDS epidemic became a global disease and threatens humankind. Volkswagen decided to face the challenge of facing it in global and local approaches...
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...
Proving Leo Durocher Wrong: Driving Work/Life Change at Ernst & Young
Authors: Friedman, Stewart D.; Thompson, Cynthia; Carpenter, Michelle; Marcel, Dennis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Wharton Work/Life Integration Project
Publication Year: 2002
Ernst & Young, LLP (E&Y), one of the "Big 5" accounting and consulting firms in the United States, has invested heavily over the last several years in the transformation of the organization and its culture to make it more supportive of life beyond work...
Committee for Democracy in Information Technology
Authors: Mair, Johanna; Verges, Serges
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2004
Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The Comite para Democratizacao da Informatica (CDI) was a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded by Rodrigo Baggio in Brazil in 1995. Its mission was to set up schools to teach computer skills to low-income communities so that slum residents could begin to move into the mainstream of society and improve their prospects...
Access: Microfinance
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
In contrast to the downside of globalization, access to capital and other resources is one way in which increased connectivity helps the poor.
Hurricane Katrina: Continuing the Discussions A Year Later
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex; The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2006
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the media was suddenly broaching topics such as race inequality and environmental planning that receive little attention in the national discourse. CasePlace.org released a Featured Collection that covered a variety of topics that could be raised in business school classrooms (ranging from how to detect windfall profits to the history of racialized images in the media to budget tradeoffs in the face of warnings about environmental disaster). A year later, the same issues are relevant, but have they lost urgency? From securing levees to securing livelihoods, these topics remain important for future business leaders....
McDonald's Corporation: Environmentalism (A)
Authors: Lubetkin, Julie; Lattin, James M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 1991
This case summarizes the operations of McDonald's, and a series of public relations and environmental campaigns undertaken by the company...
The Corporation in Society (Interactive Course Syllabus)
Author: Walsh, James P.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Professor James P. Walsh, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Publication Year: 2005
Perhaps the most difficult challenge for managers is to sustain their idealism and noble aspirations with the practical demands of getting their work done and satisfying their shareholders. A broad framework for understanding the role that companies play in society, and the expanded role that they are being asked to play, is indispensable for sorting out the questions and challenges they face. These challenges may be most acute for people as they begin their careers...
The Importance of Cultural Framing to the Success of Social Initiatives in Business
Authors: Howard-Grenville, Jennifer; Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management Executive. Vol. 17, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 2003
Cultural frames provide leverage for action on social initiatives, as shown in a case on the air pollution issue in semiconductor manufacturing.
Video: Thomas L. Friedman
Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
Product Type: Speeches; Multimedia
Source: MITWorld
Publication Year: 2005
Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, “Grandma Betty in her bathrobe” will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt Lake City home. In “Globalization 3.0,” Friedman contends, people from far-flung places will become principal players in the marketplace.
Critical Mass on Corporate Boards
Authors: Kramer, Vicki W.; Konrad, Alison M.; Erkut, Sumru
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Wellesley Centers for Women
Publication Year: 2006
Although numerous articles make a case for diversity on boards and scholars have begun to focus on women on boards, the Critical Mass project is the first research study to examine multiple perspectives on the impact of the number of women on corporate boards of directors.
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...
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...
Misery Loves Company: Rethinking Social Initiatives by Business
Authors: Margolis, Joshua; Walsh, James
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Administrative Science Quarterly. Vol. 48, Issue 2.
Publication Year: 2003
This paper assesses how organization theory and empirical research have thus far responded to this tension over corporate involvement in wider social life.
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...
Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook
Author: Brock, Debbi D.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship
Publication Year: 2008
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 2004 views
As advocates for social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship education, staff at Ashoka have gathered a plethora of resources for both faculty new to the field of social entrepreneurship and seasoned veterans who blazed the trail in the early twenty first century.
Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corporation (A)
Authors: Friedman, Raymond A.; Deinard, Caitlin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1991
In 1970 Xerox had a very progressive affirmative action program yet, once hired, black employees faced serious problems, due both to overt discrimination and to their exclusion from the informal networks of support, information and mentoring that the other salespeople shared...
Access Teaching Module- Full Version
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
FULL VERSION OF TEACHING MODULE. Access, to new markets and materials, to new sources of labor and information, to new communities and new ideas, is crucial to business, and can also serve as a way to spread the benefits of economic development to people and their communities.
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