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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.
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.
European Federation of Employee Shareownership
Author: European Federation of Employee Share Ownership
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: European Federation of Employee Share Ownership
Publication Year: 2011
The European Federation of Employee Share Ownership (EFES) acts as the umbrella organization of employee owners, companies and all persons, trade unions, experts, researchers, institutions looking to promote employee ownership and participation in Europe.
Why Insider Trading Is Hard to Define, Prove and Prevent
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2009
Aside from being the most sensational insider trading case of recent years, and the biggest ever to involve a hedge fund, the Galleon case raises questions about what exactly constitutes insider trading...
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.
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.
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Authors: Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: PublicAffairs
Publication Year: 2011
The authors have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work defies certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low.
From Kyoto to Copenhagen to Cancun to Rangoon: Successes and Failures in International Climate Negotiations
Authors: Conklin, David W.; Cadieux, Danielle
Product Type: Notes
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
In 1992, the United Nations Convention on Climate Change urged UN members to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming and climate change. As of 2010, however, many significant details of countries’ specific actions had not yet been addressed, and both emissions and the danger of climate change continued to climb.
BADM 532 - Sustainable Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces / BADM 533 - Sustainable Product Design and Business Plan Development
Authors: Viswanathan, Madhu; Clarke, John
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Illinois
Publication Year: 2011
Students in business, engineering, industrial design and other areas will spend five weeks of virtual immersion in subsistence contexts, including analysis of life circumstances in subsistence through interviews, simulation, and videos, and development of conceptual models of poverty, needs, products, and market interactions. The aim of the second part of the course is to develop an understanding of a systematic and structured approach for designing sustainable products and developing business plans that address the issues of economic, social and ecological sustainability.
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