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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom
Authors: Kaplan, Robert S.; Kiron, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2004
The case provides sufficient detail to allow for a full discussion of the pressures that lead executives and managers to "cook the books," the boundary between earnings smoothing or management and fraudulent reporting, the role for internal control systems and internal audit to prevent or rapidly detect accounting fraud, the expectations about governance processes performed by external auditors and the board of directors, and the pressure and consequences when middle managers follow orders that they know are wrong...
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] 11243 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?
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
Author: Friedman, Milton
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Speeches
Source: The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.
Publication Year: 1970
"When I hear businessmen speak eloquently about the "social responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise system," it's obvious that they believe that they are defending free enterprise
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.
"Hips Feel Good" - Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty
Authors: Gey, Thomas; Nugent, Nick; Wesley, David T.A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
In an attempt to increase sales volume by 80 per cent, Unilever re-launched Dove in 2004 with a new campaign. The campaign asks the question “What is real beauty?” and attempts to redefine it in ways that challenge commonly portrayed stereotypes.
Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Bartlett, Nicholas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
This case was analyzed for the 2003 Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition. In the final years of the 20th century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine
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.
Innovation and Collaboration at Merrill Lynch
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Vargas, Ingrid
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
In the spring of 2005, about 500 Merrill Lynch analysts worldwide participated in a collaborative effort to produce innovative research. Many analysts who had been assigned to work on collaborative projects indicated increased learning and a willingness to work in teams again. The case discusses the influence of leaders on group dynamics and the issues of product innovation through teams, team dynamics, cross-border team collaboration, alignment of incentives, decision making, and negotiation under uncertain conditions.
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?
The Body Shop: Social Responsibility or Sustained Greenwashing?
Authors: Meenakshisundaram, Ramalingam; Purkayastha, Debapratim; Fernando, Rajiv
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
In March 2006 The Body Shop, a retailer of natural-based and ethically-sourced beauty products, announced that it had agreed to an acquisition by the beauty care giant L'Oréal in a cash deal worth £652 million (US$ 1.14 billion). The announcement brought in its wake a spate of criticism against Body Shop and its founder, Dame Anita Roddick, who was regarded as a pioneer in modern corporate social responsibility.
The Wal-Mart Supply Chain Controversy
Authors: Smith, N. Craig; Crawford, Robert J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: London Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Having grown into one of the world's largest companies, Wal-Mart has become the object of attack from many critics. One of the principal areas of criticism concerns the manner by which the company manages its global supply chain...
Charles Veillon, S.A. (A)
Author: Paine, Lynn S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
The top management team at Charles Veillon, a Swiss mail-order company, is considering whether to work with a human rights organization to monitor the labor practices of its suppliers. A particular concern is avoiding child labor and other forms of workplace coercion...
Procter & Gamble and Population Services International (PSI): Social Marketing for Safe Water
Authors: Hanson, Margaret; Powell, Karen
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2006
PuR, the water purification product sold in small sachets, had suffered a string of failed market tests, but the public health benefits of the product had been demonstrated repeatedly in bottom of the pyramid (BOP) markets where finding clean drinking water can be a daily calamity...
Tata: Leadership With Trust
Author: Branzei, Oana
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2010
The case illustrates the opportunities, challenges and trade-offs involved in the design, evolution and institutionalization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainability (CS) within the Tata Group – an India-based indigenous multinational enterprise.
Procter & Gamble PuR Purifier of Water™ (A, B)
Authors: Hanson, Margaret; Powell, Karen
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2006
Procter & Gamble's PuR: Purifier of Water, a household water treatment sold in small sachets, was developed in collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and targeted 'bottom of the pyramid' households, where water treatment facilities are often lacking...
A Closer Look at Business Education: Ethical Globalization
Author: Goldbach, Justin F.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
There is no doubt that companies operating across borders face complex challenges as they strive to conduct business in ways that are ethical and meet increasingly high standards imposed by all constituencies. Finding the most responsible pathway for action requires careful judgement and attentiveness to diverse points of view.
Social Entrepreneurs: Correcting Market Failures (A, B)
Authors: Phillis, James A.; Denend, Lyn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2005
This case examines the insights, aspirations, and impact of three leading social entrepreneurs, their organizations, and their efforts to correct a diverse array of classical market failures...
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 Pine Street Initiative at Goldman Sachs
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Snook, Scott; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Goldman Sachs' Pine Street Initiative was designed to institutionalize leadership development and to maintain organizational culture in the face of ongoing change. This case illustrates both the challenge of and solutions for developing senior leaders in the highly charged and demanding culture of a successful investment bank; to uncover and address the fundamental questions underlying any attempt to accelerate the growth of leaders; to discover lessons from Pine Street's five- year evolution; and recommend solutions to maintain Pine Street's viability moving forward.
City Water Tanzania (A, B, C-A, C-B, D)
Authors: Branzei, Oana; McKague, Kevin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
This multi-part case series examines the Tanzania government's efforts to address a pressing deterioration in the infrastructure and services of Dar es Salaam's Water and Sewage Authority. It is ideally suited for core or elective courses in strategy and sustainability to illustrate the types of ongoing tensions and divergent decision angles that influence the formation and performance of public-private partnerships and managing in a global context.
Esquel Group
Author: Peleg-Gillai, Barchi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Over the years Esquel, which was part of an old-fashioned industry, gradually grew to become a larger and more modern organization. While striving to run a successful business, Esquel also took steps to ensure the well-being of its employees and to have a positive impact on society, and was devoted to protecting the environment in areas where it operated.
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?
De Beers: Addressing the New Competitiveness Challenges
Authors: Marciano, Sonia; Porter, Michael E.; Warhurst, Alyson
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Traces the development of De Beers and the diamond industry and enables deep examination of the interdependence of companies and the locations and communities in which they operate. This case examines how firms create prosperity, how firms are responsible for social problems, and what they should do in the locations in which they operate.
World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF)
Authors: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Mitchell, Jordan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
The World Wildlife Fund works with governments, businesses, other NGOs, and communities to set up conservation programs to preserve natural habitat. In contrast, Greenpeace campaigns for environmental change against governments and corporations and accepts funding only through individuals and foundation grants.
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] 3130 views
How businesses can access the benefits of a global marketplace without falling prey to the accompanying risks is a critical question.
McDonald's Corp.
Authors: Upton, David; Margolis, Joshua
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1996
McDonald's has over many years built an operating strategy based on consistency and quality through a limited product range. Competitive forces have drawn the company into a much wider variety of foods and services in order to maintain growth...
Restoring Trust at WorldCom
Authors: Lorsch, Jay W.; Robertson, Ashley C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2004
Examines the changes in corporate governance at WorldCom/MCI as proposed by the company's court-appointed corporate monitor, Richard Breeden...
A Road Map for Natural Capitalism
Authors: Lovins, Amory B.; Lovins, L. Hunter; Hawken, Paul
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 1999
No one would run a business without accounting for its capital outlays. Yet most companies overlook one major capital component--the value of the earth's ecosystem services...
Corruption in International Business (A, B)
Authors: Di Tella, Rafael; Kennedy, Robert E.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2001
This case explores various aspects of corruption in international business...
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.
Alibris in 2004
Author: McAfee, Andrew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2004
Alibris, an online marketplace for rare, used, and out-of-print books, is trying to communicate to the professional book dealers who are its main suppliers that they are in the middle of a crisis.
Environmental Justice: Income, Race, and Health
Author: Massey, Rachel
Product Type: Teaching Modules; Web Sites
Source: Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
Publication Year: 2009
This teaching module presents data and case studies illustrating how minority and low-income communities often bear a disproportionate share of environmental costs...
Toyota Motor Corp.
Authors: Reinhardt, Forest; Yao, Dennis A.; Egawa, Masako
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
In 1995, Hiroshi Okuda, president of Toyota Motor Corp., considers whether to push for a more aggressive launch of the Toyota Prius--an automobile that incorporates Toyota's new and technically advanced hybrid power train.
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.
Earnings Management
Authors: Makar, Stephen D.; Pearson, Michael; Alam, Pervaiz
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Publication Year: 2000
Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) allow an accountant to select from various methods when computing earnings and other financial measures, which could lead to lower quality financial information depending on the accounting methods used...
Anglo American (A, B)
Authors: Podolny, Joel; Bahl, Kanika; Newsome, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2004
In 2001, Dr. Brian Brink, senior vice president of Anglo American, a massive South African mining conglomerate, was debating how to confront the ravages that extremely high HIV/AIDS rates were taking on Anglo's workforce and overall productivity...
Leadership Development at Goldman Sachs
Authors: Groysberg, Boris; Snook, Scott; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
No one sitting on the Goldman Sachs management committee had relied on a formal leadership program to reach the top. How do you convince hard-nosed bankers to leave their desks and invest precious time focusing on what many perceived as “soft” issues?
Should Business Influence the Science and Politics of Global Environmental Change? The Oil Industry and Climate Change (A, B)
Authors: Le Menestrel, Marc; de Bettignies, Henri-Claude; van den Hove, Sybille
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2001
This case presents three strategic options considered by a fictitious international oil and gas corporation to address the issue of climate change: 'fight against action', 'wait and see', and 'dynamic proactive'.
Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd.
Authors: Khaire, Mukti; Kothandaraman, Prabakar PK
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Fabindia is a for-profit Indian retail company with the stated mission of providing employment to weavers and traditional handicraft artisans in rural India. Demonstrates a unique business model, discusses the opportunities and constraints that a strong vision entails, and the growth challenges of novel business models.
Napo Pharmaceuticals
Authors: Chess, Robert; Spitzer, Joshua
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Chronicles entrepreneur Lisa Conte's ventures, formed to make drug discovery and development more efficient by studying traditional, indigenous healers in the tropics. At the time of the case study, Napo was developing the compound for sale in large western markets while arranging an innovative public-private partnership to develop and distribute crofelemer in the developing world.
Getting Ahead of the Curve: Corporate Strategies That Address Climate Change – Synthesis Section
Author: Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Pew Center on Global Climate Change (www.pewclimate.org)
Publication Year: 2006
Getting Ahead of the Curve: Corporate Strategies That Address Climate Change serves as a "how to" guide for corporate decision makers as they navigate rapidly-changing global markets...
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.--2002
Author: Yoshino, Michael Y.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Carlos Ghosn, a former executive vice president of Renault, became the COO of Nissan Motor Co., a troubled auto company in Japan when Renault bought 38% of the company in 1999. This case deals with how Ghosn turned the company around...
Global Climate Change and BP
Authors: Reinhardt, Forest; Hyman, Mikell
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
Following the sudden resignation of Sir John Browne, Tony Hayward, BP CEO, must decide how global climate change management will figure into BP's corporate strategy.
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.
It's a Flat World, After All
Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times Magazine
Publication Year: 2005
A tale of technology and geoeconomics that is fundamentally reshaping our lives -- much, much more quickly than many people realize...
Broken Trust: Role of Professionals in the Enron Debacle
Author: Nanda, Ashish
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
Discusses the role of professionals in the Enron debacle. Argues that professionals failed to prevent or predict Enron's collapse because of the conflicts of interest they faced...
The Power of Activism: Assessing the Impact of NGOs on Global Business
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; LaMure, Lane T.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2003
Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the emergence of activism across a wide variety of issue areas. On topics ranging from human rights to labor conditions, NGOs and activists represent an increasingly important constituency in a firm's nonmarket environment...
Amanco
Authors: Kaplan, Robert S.; Reisen de Pinho, Ricardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
The owners and senior executive team of Amanco, a producer of plastic pipe and complete water treatment systems, want strong financial returns but are also deeply committed to improving the environment and making a difference in people's lives. Illustrates the development of a management system using strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards to help a company implement its triple-bottom-line objectives of excellence in economic, environmental, and social performance.
IBM's Decade of Transformation: Uniting Vision and Values
Authors: Applegate, Lynda M.; Heckscher, Charles; Michael, Boniface; Collins, Elizabeth
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
As he prepared for the December 2006 meeting with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt, Pierre Comte faced some difficult decisions. Only eight months into his job as chief marketing officer of GE’s Transportation business, Comte would be presenting Transportation’s recommendations on some of the most visible growth initiatives in its locomotive business...
Whirlpool Corporation
Author: Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Pew Center on Global Climate Change (www.pewclimate.org)
Publication Year: 2006
At the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol in 2003, Whirlpool became the world's first appliance manufacturer to announce a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategy. But unlike many other companies that have made similar pledges, Whirlpool's approach to climate change involves neither dramatic changes to its operations nor significant bottom-line costs...
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