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A Technical Note on Angel Investing in Emerging Markets
Author: Rodriguez, P.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
This note discusses the practice of angel investing, particularly its meaning and suitability to emerging markets.
How Women Entrepreneurs Are Driving Business in the Middle East
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2010
Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud is an Arabian princess with an entrepreneurial streak.
Mapping the Global Capital Markets
Authors: Farrell, Diana; Marcheva, Aneta; Shavers, Tim
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2005
In-depth analysis of the financial assets of more than 100 countries shows that financial markets are becoming deeper, more liquid, and increasingly integrated...
Hana's Dilemma: Suck It Up or Quit?
Author: Osland, Asbjorn
Product Type: Cases
Source: San Jose State University
Publication Year: 2009
Hana Tan, a recently employed college graduate with a general business degree, was in the midst of her training program when her manager’s manager, a fellow named Eric, humiliated her in front of her training group. She wondered, “Should I quit?"
Transformations of Wal-Mart: Experimenting with New Retail Paradigms
Authors: Conklin, David W.; Cadieux, Danielle
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Beginning in the 1990s, Wal-Mart sought to maintain its rapid growth by investing outside of the United States. This process created a new set of challenges, since the existing chains had their own corporate cultures and operating procedures. Wal-Mart experienced several surprising defeats and encountered strong opposition from labour unions. At the same time, Wal-Mart was taking a dramatic position in compelling its suppliers to adopt "green" practices, conducting audits of its suppliers and refusing to purchase from those who failed to measure up to new environmental standards.
How Should a Company Respond to a Product Harm Crisis?
Authors: Laufer, Daniel; Coombs, W. Timothy
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons, Indiana University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Contaminated Coca-Cola cans in Belgium, poisoned Tylenol capsules in the United Sates, defective Firestone tires in the United Sates, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia, and most recently, patients becoming ill after using Vioxx; these are but a few examples of product harm crises. Companies should not underestimate the importance of properly handling these crises, and this case discusses how to best cope with and manage product harm crises in organizations.
Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets*
Authors: Fisman, Raymond; Miguel, Edward
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Columbia University Graduate School of Business; University of California, Berkeley, Department of Economics
Publication Year: 2006
Corruption is believed to be a major factor impeding economic development, but the importance of legal enforcement versus cultural norms in controlling corruption is poorly understood. To disentangle these two factors, we exploit a natural experiment, the stationing of thousands of diplomats from around the world in New York City...
Building Blocks For Success
Author: Weiss, Tara
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Forbes.com
Publication Year: 2007
With all the bad news recently about corporate scandals you might be forgiven for wondering which companies actually have good reputations...
Tesco's Experience in the Middle Kingdom
Authors: Indu, P; Govind, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
Tesco, the UK-based retailer, operated in several emerging markets in Europe and Asia. The case focuses on the entry and expansion strategies of Tesco in the Chinese market.
MGMT 715-752: Geopolitics
Author: Henisz, Witold J.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Department of Management. Summer 2006.
Publication Year: 2006
This course explores the intersection of international strategy and international relations to help students to identify and introduce sustainable and profitable business strategies in sectors with a history of or strong potential for ongoing political intervention...
Microfinance Misses its Mark
Author: Karnani, Aneel
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2007
Despite the hoopla over microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. If societies are serious about helping the poorest of the poor, they should stop investing in microfinance and start supporting large, labor-intensive industries. At the same time, governments must hold up their end of the deal, for market-based solutions will never be enough...
The Company That Anticipated History
Author: Graham, Ann
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2006
Access to electricity is always an important first step up the economic ladder. In South Africa, Eskom Holdings Ltd. provides that first step. A government-owned corporation headquartered in the Johannesburg suburb of Sandton, Eskom generates 95 percent of the country's electricity. The company's early embrace of "electricity for all" (as the policy is called) allowed the company to play a leadership role early on in the social transformation of South Africa...
Monitoring Factories Around the Globe: The Fair Labor Association and The Workers Rights Consortium
Authors: Chang, Victoria; Carroll, Glenn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
In 1999, the nonprofit Fair Labor Association (FLA) was launched to monitor factories around the world for sweatshop-related infractions. Another key nonprofit player, the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), was launched in 2000. The two organizations had similar goals, but very different histories, strategies, and ways of operating.
The European Recycling Platform: Promoting Competition in E-Waste Recycling
Authors: Lee, Hau; Shao, Maria
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
The European Recycling Platform was the only pan-European recycling organization created in response to the European Union's groundbreaking directive to promote recycling of electronic waste. In November 2007, ERP's board was meeting to evaluate whether the company should greatly expand its scope.
Macro Credit
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist
Publication Year: 2006
For many of the supporters of Muhammad Yunus and the institution he created, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, the announcement that the two will share a Nobel peace prize is long overdue—the only surprise is that it was so long in coming. The selection committee said the prize was for developing what "had appeared to be an impossible idea", namely loans to people who lack collateral...
Managing the Business Case for Sustainability
Authors: Schaltegger, Stefan; Wagner, Marcus
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Greenleaf Publishing Ltd
Publication Year: 2006
The difficulties in moving towards corporate sustainability raise the question of how environmental and social management can be integrated better with economic business goals...
Towards a Collaborative Environment Research Agenda: A Second Selection of Papers
Authors: Winnett, Adrian; Warhurst, Alyson; Maltby, William S.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Year: 2003
This is the second volume of papers in the topical area of environmental management. Arising from work done by the International Centre for the Environment at the University of Bath, the papers address interdisciplinary environmental themes particularly from a business and management perspective.
The Lessons of Fukushima
Author: Gusterson, Hugh
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Truthout.org
Publication Year: 2011
What lessons will we learn from the nuclear accident at Fukushima, an accident thought to be impossible?
Building an Inclusive Green Economy for All: Opportunities and Challenges for Overcoming Poverty and Inequality
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Poverty-Environment Partnership
Publication Year: 2012
Examples of the green economy in practice show great potential for delivering a “triple bottom line” of job–creating economic growth coupled with environmental protection and social inclusion. However, there are significant barriers to realizing this potential on a large scale. To build an inclusive green economy that is equitable and sustainable will require carefully designed policies and targeted investments that enable low and middle-income countries and the poor to contribute to and benefit from the transition...
The Impact of the Second-hand Clothing Trade on Developing Countries
Authors: Baden, Sally; Barber, Catherine
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Oxfam
Publication Year: 2005
The global trade in second-hand clothing is worth more than $1 billion each year. Supporters of the SHC industry point out that the trade creates employment in the receiving countries and provides low-cost clothing for people living in poverty. At the same time, however, there are concerns that the trade may be undermining local textile and garment industries, and livelihoods in some developing countries.
UNICEF: Tapping the Power of Water
Author: McCormack, Karyn
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Business Week Online
Publication Year: 2007
UNICEF, which raises money for children's health and education programs around the world, is implementing the Tap Project—its first new consumer campaign in 56 years—to help fund its clean drinking water programs worldwide...
WaterHealth International: Providing Safe Drinking Water to the Bottom of the Pyramid Consumers
Authors: Faheem, Hadiya; Purkayastha, Debapratim
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2010
This case study is about Irvine, California-based WaterHealth International Inc., a social purpose for-profit venture in the safe water sector, focused on serving the traditionally underserved "Bottom of the Pyramid" segment. The company’s aim was to ensure increasing returns for the company and its investors while achieving a social impact.
Searching for Sustainability: No Quick Fix
Author: Ehrenfeld, John
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The SoL Journal, Volume 5, Number 8 (2004).
Publication Year: 2004
In the face of alarming environmental and social imbalances, the growing push for sustainability has given hope to many thoughtful practitioners. But John Ehrenfeld, a leader in the emerging field of industrial ecology, questions the conventional approach to "sustainable development." Creating true sustainability, he argues, requires radical solutions, not quick fixes...
Corporate Codes of Conduct and the Success of Globalization
Author: Sethi, S. Prakash
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Ethics and International Affairs, New York, New York, 2002, pp. 89-107.
Publication Year: 2002
There is another aspect to this problem in terms of MNC's local suppliers. In the past MNCs sought to abrogate their responsibility for the conduct of their overseas suppliers by arguing that these suppliers were independent entrepreneurs and that the companies had no control over these suppliers. However it has been shown that foreign multinationals exert tremendous control over the operations of their suppliers because of their buying power.
Eaga
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Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2009
eaga is a global provider of residential improvement projects, particularly in the field of energy efficiency.
Globalization in the Apparel and Textile Industries: What is New and What is Not?
Authors: Abernathy, Frederick H.; Dunlop, John T.; Hammond, Janice H.; Weil, David
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Stanford Business Books
Publication Year: 2003
What's all the fuss about the globalization of the textile and apparel industries? This paper sketches out the important changes that have occurred in the distribution of products in the U.S. market and then demonstrates why the calculus of sourcing decisions has changed.
The Sustainable MBA Guide on Facebook
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters; Web Sites
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
This is a one of a kind overview of leading MBA programs and how they are integrating social and environmental impact into their academic and extracurricular offerings.
Responsible Investment
Authors: Sullivan, Rory; Mackenzie, Craig
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Greenleaf Publishing Ltd
Publication Year: 2006
Most investment today is conducted by a relatively small number of institutional investors — pension funds and investment managers — who manage the pensions and saving funds of millions of ordinary people. The manner in which these institutional investors invest and discharge their responsibilities as the owners of companies is, therefore, of critical importance to society as a whole. In recent years, some of the biggest institutional investors have actively encouraged companies to improve their management of social, ethical and environmental issues. However, to date, there has been little systematic analysis of fundamental questions...
Global Warming has Already Changed World's Rainfall Patterns: Study
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: AFP
Publication Year: 2007
A study has yielded the first confirmation that global warming is already affecting world's rainfall patterns, bringing more precipitation to northern Europe, Canada and northern Russia but less to swathes of sub-Saharan Africa, southern India and Southeast Asia.
AIDS Is Your Business
Authors: Rosen, Sydney; Simon, Jonathon; Vincent, Jeffrey R.; MacLeod, William; Fox, Matthew; Thea, Donald M.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2003
If your company operates in a developing country, AIDS is your business. Why should executives be concerned about AIDS? Because it is destroying the twin rationales of globalization strategy--cheap labor and fast-growing markets--in countries where people are heavily affected by the epidemic.
Who Should—and Shouldn't—Run the Family Business
Authors: Dorgan, Stephen J.; Dowdy, John J.; Rippin, Thomas M.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Mckinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2006
Family-owned companies run by eldest sons account for a good deal of the managerial-quality gap between the countries in a study...
Containment Strategy
Author: Faris, Stephan
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Atlantic Monthly
Publication Year: 2006
What was once seen as a humanitarian catastrophe is viewed increasingly as a security threat...
Part of the Solution: Leveraging Business and Markets for Low-Income People
Author: Weiser, John
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Ford Foundation, 2005
Publication Year: 2005
This report presents lessons learned from the Corporate Involvement (CI) Initiative of the Ford Foundation, an effort that sought to demonstrate that businesses could use core operating resources and competencies in ways that contribute to large-scale improvement in income and assets for low-income people, while benefiting business.
MicroFranchises as a Solution to Global Poverty
Author: Magleby, Kirk
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source:
Publication Year: 2006
This paper details the issues of global poverty, offering data as well as obstacles to solving the health, income, and educational problems related to the billion people living in poverty.
Employee Financial Participation in the New Member States
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Publication Year: 2007
This report looks at the current situation in relation to employee financial participation (EFP) and its recent developments in the new Member States (NMS) of the EU: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
CITC and Arthur D. Little: Deregulation and Liberalization of the Saudi Telecom Sector (A, B)
Authors: Bose, Indranil; Banerjee, Shilpi
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2009
Arthur D. Little, a global management consulting firm, was hired by CITC in 2006 to assist in the deregulation process of the Saudi telecom market.
Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis
Author: Prasad, Anshuman
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st edition
Publication Year: 2003
This book takes up a question that has rarely been raised in the field of management: “Could modern Western colonialism have important implications for the practices and theories that inform management and organizations?”...
The McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives
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Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
The second McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives finds that corporate leaders are still confident—especially about hiring, IT spending, China, and India—though they've tempered their earlier enthusiasm.
The Roots of Sustainability
Author: Ehrenfeld, John
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 23–25, Winter 2005.
Publication Year: 2005
Management literature today abounds with stories about the business case for sustainability. Yet, the author suggests, much of business's efforts in the name of sustainable development at best only temporarily slow society's continuing drift toward unsustainability. Indeed, he argues, that the term "sustainable development" has become an oxymoron. The problem really stems from management's failure to see unsustainability as a deep-seated systems failure and to appreciate the extent to which radical thinking and action are required to embark upon a sustainable trajectory.
Private-Investment Opportunities for Public Transport
Authors: Cheatham, Benjamin; Oblin, Walter
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
Opportunities for the private sector to invest in public-transportation infrastructure through public-private partnerships are likely to be worth more than $330 billion from 2005 to 2010, accelerating a growth trend that began in the mid-1990s.1 But in some countries weak political commitment, a lack of appropriate regulatory safeguards, and poor project governance pose worrisome risks for investors.
The Aspen Institute
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Product Type: Web Sites
Source:
Publication Year: 1950
The Aspen Institute is an international non-profit organization dedicated to informed dialogue and inquiry on issues of global concern. Founded in 1950, it has pursued its mission of fostering enlightened leadership through seminars, policy studies and fellowship programs.
Surveys Indicate Business Can Be a Leading Player for Development
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2007
In a recent WBCSD online public survey, almost 90% of respondents believed that business could be both profitable and serve the needs of low-income communities – the concept of inclusive business, as framed by the WBCSD's "Statement of Intent for Doing Business with the World" signed by 12 Council Members on the Development Focus Area Core Team...
Who in the World is Entrepreneurial?
Author: Lewis, Geoff
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Fortune
Publication Year: 2007
So what are the best countries for entrepreneurs now? Where might American entrepreneurs think about setting up overseas? And where should they keep an eye out for global competitors? Some of the stars - such as Iceland and Denmark - might surprise you. Laggards include India...
A Technical Note on Corruption
Author: Rodriguez, P.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Corruption undermines, erodes, and threatens to destroy our economic and political systems; it also robs free markets of the very competitive forces that connect private activity with social well-being.
Great Powers Try to Keep it Casual
Author: Willamson, Hugh
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Financial Times
Publication Year: 2007
The G8 leaders set to gather on Wednesday at Heiligendamm, on Germany's blustery Baltic coast, know they have a big problem. Unless they in some way engage more fully with non-members, especially emerging powers such as India and Brazil as well as China, they will lose legitimacy as a grouping and, more importantly, fail to resolve challenges that top their agenda.
Crown Worldwide: Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility in Business
Authors: Farhoomand, Ali F.; Lai, Ricky; Woo, Claudia H.L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2010
Founded in 1965 by Jim Thompson, the Crown Worldwide Group began as a small moving company in Japan, shifting its headquarters to Hong Kong in the mid-1970s. Within 30 years, Crown had became the world's largest privately held relocation and logistics enterprise. With growing concern among customers about CSR, the company recognized that CSR must be integrated into its corporate strategy and day-to-day business operations to achieve sustainability for both the company and society.
A Grassroots Approach to Emerging-Market Consumers
Author: Beshouri, Christopher P.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Mckinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2006
By tapping into local networks, companies can serve low-income markets profitably, delivering significant value to shareholders while creating the essential market infrastructure for economic development in the neediest communities...
One world - One accounting
Authors: Erickson, Devon; Esplin, Adam; Maines, Laureen A.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2009
In this article, we explore the different accounting methods used for financial statement reporting around the globe, and analyze the concept of all businesses adopting the same set of rules.
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Promoting Employee Ownership at the Subnational Level
Author: Logue, John
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Capital Ownership Group and Ohio Employee Ownership Center
Publication Year: 2001
There are at least six reasons why we should be concerned with encouraging employee ownership at thesubnational level: at the level of the state, the province, the region, the municipality, or other subnationalgovernmental units or at the level of the industrial branch, cutting across governmental geographic units.
The McKinsey Corporate and Investment Banking Trendspotter
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Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007
This set of exhibits provides a snapshot of the trends in corporate and investment banking...
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