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Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas
Author: Dobbs, Lou
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Business Plus
Publication Year: 2004
"How can our politicians call trade 'free' when year after year we sustain runaway trade deficits and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs?", asks Lou Dobbs.
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...
Social Entrepreneurship
Authors: Mair, Johanna; Seelos, Christian
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Mair, Johanna
Publication Year: 2005
Social Entrepreneurship is about using entrepreneurial skills to craft innovative responses to social problems. It aims at social impact, but does not exclude economic wealth creation. Thus it is not limited to the non-profit sector. Social Entrepreneurship involves recognizing opportunities, combining and mobilizing resources, triggering positive change in various domains, and building sustainability.
Pallotta Teamworks
Author: Kind, Liz
Product Type: Cases
Source: Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship @ Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2002
Pallotta Team Works is a for-profit, privately owned company that produces multiday fundraising events for nonprofit organizations. Dan Pallotta, the 40-year-old CEO, founded the enterprise in 1992. The company has grown rapidly, having raised over $200 million for charities. As the boundaries between the for-profit and nonprofit sectors blur, this case provides an example of how a for-profit entrepreneurial approach and the market test where the lines between the two sectors are drawn...
Marketers, Meet the Millennial Generation
Author: Jullens, John
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2007
Even with decades of practice communicating with young consumers, marketers may not know what they are in for with Generation Y. Most companies have had little exposure to this cohort. In the U.S., more than 60 million consumers were born between the launch of MTV in 1981 and the commercialization of the Internet in 1996; they have about 140 million counterparts in Europe and almost 20 million in Japan. The older members of the group are only now moving into the mainstream adult arena of reliable cars and mortgages.
Google Offers a Map for Its Philanthropy
Author: Rubin, Harriet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2008
Google may be one of America's 10 richest corporations as measured by market value, but its budget for philanthropy is minuscule compared with the $70 billion of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Still, Google's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, expressed a hope back in 2004 that “someday this institution may eclipse Google itself in terms of overall world impact.” What it lacks in size, though, Google.org may make up in cachet.
Recipe for Success: A Pinch of Social Activism, a Teaspoon of Environmental Consciousness and Lots of Good Cuisine
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2008
Food, Fun and Social Activism - the blinking words flashing across the website of White Dog cafe more than sum up its philosophy- they define the life spirit flowing through the café’s business model.
Waste Concern
Authors: Drabkin, D.; Hanley, D.; Phills, J., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2006
Waste Concern has developed innovative approaches to waste processing in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This case reviews their plans to improve techniques: scaling up their waste processing operations, introducing new technology, and creating a new trading business selling credits for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions under the framework develop by the Kyoto Protocol. The case describes Waste Concern's model and details two opportunities to raise capital from large foreign firms that would provide the funds to grow the organization.
India's Rural Poor: Why Housing Isn't Enough to Create Sustainable Communities
Author:
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge @ Wharton
Publication Year: 2007
India's desire to become the world's next big economic power is as real as the enormous challenges it faces in raising the social and economic well being of its rural populations...
Snus: No Smoke Without Fire?
Author: Walsh, J
Product Type: Cases
Source: IMD - International Institute for Management Development
Publication Year: 2006
In almost every country in the world, more than 20% of the population smoke. The health hazards of cigarettes are many and severe. Recently, most developed countries have introduced laws to restrict where smokers can light up.
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