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Preparing to be the Stakeholder Relationship Manager: The Case of Wal-Mart
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2007
This Teaching Module now includes a Teaching Note for Faculty. The job description for Wal-Mart's recently created "Senior Director for Stakeholder Management" seeks "an innovative, out-of-the-box thinker" who can work on the company's commitments in areas including labor and wages, health care, product sourcing, and the environment. Are business schools today training leaders who could fill this role?
Hurricane Katrina: Business School Classroom Discussions in its Aftermath
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex; CasePlace.org
Product Type: Reading Collection
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2005
Aspen BSP is committed to delivering "just in time" discussion topics on current events and unfolding crises for use in the classroom. Thus, our "just in time" ideas pose a few ways that the subject of Katrina might meaningfully enter the business school classroom, drawing upon but also analyzing and moving beyond what appears in the daily press.
Doing Business in Africa
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex
Product Type: Reading Collection
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2006
Many cases on Africa follow how large multinational companies do business in Africa: dealing with AIDS, pricing pharmaceutical products, or developing a post-divestiture strategy. The cases in this Teaching Module are distinctive for digging into how businesses within Africa manage growth and contribute to economic development...
A Closer Look at Applied Sustainability Centers
Authors: Roberts, Alex; Johnson, Jennifer; Bunch, Rick
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
This report discusses the rise of academic centers with a focus on applied sustainability, primarily in environmental subjects, and examines a number of those centers in detail. Our hope in offering this information is to provide a survey of the current sustainability landscape, help schools learn from each other's experiences and inspire greater collaboration and creativity.
Hurricane Katrina: Continuing the Discussions A Year Later
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex; The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collection
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....
Reflecting on the Year's Progress Regarding Business and Society: Voices of Hope and Voices of Skepticism
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex; CasePlace.org
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2005
As 2005 draws to a close, it is a good time to review how corporations have changed the way they do business over the past year. Many corporations have proposed changes that prompt the question: Will fundamental change really occur?
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