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ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability
Authors: Ebrahim, Alnoor; Gordon, Rachel
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
As a global NGO working in 45 countries, ActionAid International aims to eradicate poverty by addressing its underlying causes such as injustice and inequality. This case follows a series of radical transformations implemented by the organization's CEO, Ramesh Singh. How will the divisions between the Northern and Southern units play out? Will they tear the organization apart, just when it is becoming a global player?
The New Rules of Green Marketing: Strategies, Tools, and Inspiration for Sustainable Branding
Author: Ottman, Jacquelyn
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2011
The New Rules of Green Marketing helps readers understand why value-based sustainability marketing has become a critical organizational capacity and how they themselves can adopt this approach. Drawing on the latest data from leading researchers and reflecting on learnings from her corporate clients and other pioneers—including GE, Nike, Method, Starbucks, Timberland, HP, NatureWorks, Procter & Gamble, Stonyfield Farm, and Wal-Mart—the author provides practical strategies, tools, and inspiration for building every aspect of a credible value-based green marketing strategy.
The Multinational Firm and Geostrategy
Author: Jones, Milo
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: IE Business School
Publication Year: 2011
This course explores how geopolitical factors affect multinational firms, and how business strategy intersects with geopolitical events. We will consider geopolitics in the broadest sense, looking at how geography, climate, culture, demography, politics, economics and technology interact with business strategy.
In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took it Down
Authors: Reed, Stanley; Fitzgerald, Alison
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Bloomberg Press
Publication Year: 2011
In 2005, fifteen workers were killed when BP's Texas City Refinery exploded. In 2006, corroded pipes owned by BP led to an oil spill in Alaska. In 2010, eleven men drilling for BP were killed in the blowout of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. What's next? The authors answer not only that question, but also examine why these disasters happen to BP so much more than other large oil companies.
An Intern's Dilemma
Authors: Sucher, Sandra J.; Preble, Matthew
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
An HBS student is asked to misrepresent himself during the course of his summer internship by his employer in order to obtain data from industry competitors.
Q&A: Roundtable on Shared Value
Authors: Kania, John; Kramer, Mark
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2011
Executives from 10 major corporations gathered in New York City to discuss the innovative ways that they are putting societal issues at the core of their companies’ strategy and operations.
Estee Lauder Companies: Adapting CSR to the Cosmetics Industry
Authors: Som, Ashok; Harger, Fernanda; Kato, Nora
Product Type: Cases
Source: ESSEC Business School
Publication Year: 2011
In recent times consumer awareness of social responsibility of the cosmetic industry rose, especially regarding animal testing and ecological issues. Estee Lauder Companies adjusted to the changing market requirements and focused more and more on its corporate responsibility. Today, almost every brand in the Estee Lauder group is linked with activities concerning current issues, from breast cancer, over water shortage or AIDS awareness.
2011 Global Peace Index
Author: Institute for Economics and Peace
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Web Sites
Source: Institute for Economics and Peace
Publication Year: 2011
Peace is one of the most used and esteemed words in the human vocabulary. The most peaceful societies have higher per capita income, higher levels of well-being, more freedom, perform better at sustainability, and appear to have a more equitable distribution of social spending. Yet if we wish to create peace then we must first pose the question; "what do we know about peace?” The Institute for Economics and Peace, in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit and with the guidance of an international team of academics and peace experts, has compiled the Global Peace Index.
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.
Don’t Look Now, You’re Being Googled: Google Search Data Compilation and User Privacy
Author: Clipp, Celeste
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Publication Year: 2011
This case study examines conflicting missions within an organization and illustrates ethical challenges arising from emerging internet technologies.
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