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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] 3185 views
How businesses can access the benefits of a global marketplace without falling prey to the accompanying risks is a critical question.
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] 11461 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?
Shell in Nigeria
Authors: Hendry, John; Mellor, Kate; Hak, Zain; Ade-Ajayi, Funmi; Vieira, Waldir; Zou, Yuan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Cambridge Judge Business School
Publication Year: 2000
Faculty Rating: 
[1 Faculty Rating] 3661 views
This case reviews the public controversy surrounding Shell's operations in Nigeria in the 1990s...
Eat2Eat.com
Authors: Goodwin, Nigel; Hardy, Kenneth G.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2006
Faculty Rating: [2 Faculty Ratings] 6399 views
Eat2Eat.com was an Internet-based restaurant reservation service covering a dozen cities in the Asia Pacific region. The case focuses on entrepreneurial marketing with sub-themes of financing and small enterprise management. It is a story of an entrepreneur who had an idea and enough money to launch it, but then struggles to achieve adequate scale...
TED Talks: Video Collection
Author:
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: TED
Publication Year: 2013
This video collection of TED Talks highlights social, environmental and ethical issues related to business and can be used as an introduction to this varied video library on fascinating ideas by remarkable people.
Low-carbon, Indigenous Innovation in China
Author: Vietor, Richard H.K.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
For the past seven years or so, the Chinese government has been powering ahead with industrial policies to promote low-carbon energy technologies--wind, solar, electric batteries and vehicles, nuclear power, and even carbon capture and sequestration. The net effects of these initiatives leave low-carbon energy industries in the United States in the dust...
Samasource: Give Work, Not Aid
Authors: Gino, Francesca; Staats, Bradley R.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Different from traditional business process outsourcing companies, Samasource relied on a marginalized population of workers to execute the work. The case explores how the company can grow its capability to help individuals around the globe through the provision of digital work.
Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design
Author: Petrosky, Henry
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2008
Success through Failure shows us that making something better--by carefully anticipating and thus averting failure--is what invention and design are all about. Petroski explores the nature of invention and the character of the inventor through an unprecedented range of both everyday and extraordinary examples--illustrated lectures, child-resistant packaging for drugs, national constitutions, medical devices, the world's tallest skyscrapers, long-span bridges, and more. Stressing throughout that there is no surer road to eventual failure than modeling designs solely on past successes, he sheds new light on spectacular failures...
Google Books: Liberating the World’s Information, or Appropriating It?
Authors: Stromberg, Eric; Sheth, Romeen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Publication Year: 2011
Discusses the ethical and political issues arising from Google’s plan to digitize the world’s books.
Insider Trading 2011: How Technology and Social Networks Have 'Friended' Access to Confidential Information
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2011
Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund in New York, has been found guilty on all counts in one of the largest insider trading cases in U.S history. Amid the discussions on that case and on insider trading generally, the role of technology in communicating information has often been overlooked.
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