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The Poletown Dilemma
Author: Nichols III, Charles A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1989
Senior management of General Motors must select a site for a new assembly plant to replace two plants located in Detroit. The economics strongly favor a site in an adjacent state. However, a relocation would have substantial, negative impacts...
BP: Putting Profits Before Safety?
Authors: Fernando, R; Purkayastha, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
This case is about the safety problems faced by BP, the third-largest oil and gas producer in the world. On 23 March 2005, an explosion at BP's Texas City refinery resulted in one of the most serious workplace accidents in the US...
Unsavory Problems at Tasty's: A Role Play about Whistle-Blowing
Authors: Comer, Debra R.; Vega, Gina
Product Type: Cases; Exercises
Source: Journal Of Management Education
Publication Year: 2006
This article presents a role-play exercise to make the topic of whistle-blowing personally salient to undergraduates. Students identify with the prospective whistle-blower, whose decision affects several stakeholders...
De Beers Consolidated Mines: HIV/AIDS Strategy
Authors: Korpalo, Olga; Zimmerman, Brenda
Product Type: Cases
Source: Schulich School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Joy Beckett, De Beers’ HIV/AIDS Manager, Operations, returned to Johannesburg from the Toronto International AIDS Conference in August 2006. She was very excited to share her new knowledge and the connections she acquired at the conference with her colleagues. However, she realized she needed to think carefully about how to share her ideas for expanding the impact of De Beers HIV/AIDS programs with her colleagues especially in light of the current company restructuring which had been going on for the last three years. A second wave of retrenchment had been just announced.
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...
Rainforest Negotiation Exercise (RNE)
Authors: Cummings, Christopher A.; Marcus, Barbara L.; Freeman, R. Edward; Lunday, Jason
Product Type: Exercises
Source: The World Resources Institute
Publication Year: 1995
This negotiation focuses on oil production in the environmentally sensitive Oriente region of the Ecuadorean Amazon. Conoco, Inc., has developed an environmental management plan for its operations in the region, but the company still faces significant opposition from both U.S. and Ecuadorean environmental groups...
Coca-Cola in Africa: Increasing Productivity by Combating AIDS
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2008
Cocal-Cola has launched several initiatives to educate, protect and curb the AIDS crisis for its employees, in turn helping the economic growth of the whole region.
Aguas del Tunari in Bolivia: The Water War
Author: von der Porten, Suzanne
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
In February and April of 2000, tens of thousands of citizen protesters seized the streets of their home city Cochabamba, Bolivia to protest the privatization of their water and sewer system by Aguas del Tunari, a subsidiary of US-based Bechtel Corporation...
Phil Chan (A, B)
Authors: Beamish, Paul W.; Schaan, Jean-Louis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The case deals with a scam that has been run out of Nigeria since 1990. In it, foreign companies are approached for their assistance in facilitating an international transfer of funds in order to receive a very large but unearned commission...
Hariyali Kisaan Bazaar: A Rural Business Initiative
Authors: Bell, David E.; Sanghavi, Nitin; Fuller, Virginia A.; Shelman, Mary L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: HBSP
Publication Year: 2008
The case allows students to explore a rural business model in India, and discuss its implications for both agribusiness and retail.
Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria Stakeholder Simulation
Authors: Branzei, Oana; Wheeler, David
Product Type: Cases; Exercises
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The goal of this simulation is to illustrate the challenges in anticipating points of common interest, and the difficulties of overcoming initial antagonistic framing in order to work together to develop novel positions.
Turnaround Strategy at Cummins Engine
Author: Schacht, Henry B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Journal of Strategic Management Education 1 (1) pp179-197
Publication Year: 2003
This case describes how Cummins Engine Corporation implemented a successful long-term strategy to restore its dominant position in the world diesel engine market...
Analyzing the Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Local Food Store Sales
Authors: Artz, Georgeanne M.; Stone, Kenneth E.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Journal Articles
Source: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Publication Year: 2006
The greatest competitive pressures from the expansion of Supercenters occur to existing grocery stores. Nearly 500 of these stores are located in counties with an urban population of fewer than 20,000 people. These are primarily rural trade centers in which retail trade is akin to a zero-sum game. Unless population or incomes are growing substantially, there is a relatively fixed amount of money to be spent in the retail sector...
Teaching Module on Low-Wage Work in The Coming Economy - Dead End or a Way Out?
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Most of us believe that full-time work should pay enough to avoid poverty, but this often isn't the case. While there is no one accepted definition of "low-wage work," there are an estimated 30 million Americans earning around the poverty line or below.
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...
Broad Air Conditioning and Environmental Protection
Authors: He, Zhi Yi; Sun, Meng; Beamish, Paul W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Broad Air Conditioning is a Chinese company with a proactive environmental attitude, but suffering from deteriorating financial results. The company founder and chief executive officer must decide whether to start producing electricity powered air conditioners to improve its financial results easily or stick to its ideal and only manufacture machines powered by heat...
Webcast: Sustainability for Value and Profit
Authors: CasePlace.org; Laszlo, Chris; Cooperrider, David
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2007
Business Executives and Managers: Searching for ways to create business advantage through sustainability? Listen to this CasePlace.org web-conference, featuring Dr. Chris Laszlo and Dr. David Cooperrider as they discuss how companies are leveraging sustainability to maximize value creation for both shareholders and stakeholders...
Coca-Cola India's Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
Authors: Purkayastha, D.; Faheem, Hadiya
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
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This case details the activities taken up by Coca-Cola India's management and employees to contribute to the society and community in which the company operates.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause
Authors: Kotler, Phillip; Lee, Nancy
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: John Wiley & Sons
Publication Year: 2004
Today, corporations are expected to give something back to their communities in the form of charitable projects. In Corporate Social Responsibility, the authors explain why charity is both good P.R. and good for business.
Inequality and the "American Model"
Authors: Di Tella, Rafael; Vogel, Ingrid
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2002
Official data that suggest economic inequality has been mounting in the United States on various dimensions since 1979...
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...
Eli Lilly: Managing Workplace Diversity and Coping with the Accusations of Racial Discrimination
Authors: Purkayastha, D.; Sharma, N.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2008
This case aims to help students understand the issues and challenges in promoting and managing workplace diversity.
Wal-Mart's Business Environment
Author: Oberholzer-Gee, Felix
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
In 2004, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. proposed to build a new supercenter in Inglewood, a low-income community near Los Angeles. To compete with Wal-Mart, supermarkets in California cut grocery workers' health benefits and wages. The unions ordered a strike against the supermarkets.
Foreign Direct Investment and Ireland's Tiger Economy (A, B)
Authors: Alfaro, Laura; McIntyre, Stephen; Dev, Vinati
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Describes Ireland's transformation from one of Europe's poorest countries to one of its richest in just 10 years, earning it the title Celtic Tiger. The spectacular story of growth and recovery is attributed, in large part, to foreign direct investment, particularly from the United Sates...
CGA: What Do We Know and What Do We Teach Future Business Leaders?
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Speeches
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2003
The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program reports on MBA education's approaches to governance issues, offering a rich picture of what is currently taught in MBA programs; the strengths and limitations of this material; the questions left unanswered or unasked; and some promising approaches for addressing these gaps.
Economics and Peace Teaching Materials Portal
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This collection offers resources to help teach business students about peace. We hope this collection grows and encourages further inquiry into the business and peace nexus.
AIDSCAP Nepal: A Case Study
Authors: Sriram, Ven; Manu, Franklyn
Product Type: Cases
Source: NACRA, Case Research Journal / Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 2000
Ravin Lama's advertising agency was responsible for developing a two phased multimedia campaign for the AIDS Control and Prevention Project (AIDSCAP) in Nepal...
TOMS Shoes: From Soul to Sole
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2008
TOMS shoes are the harbinger of what has been christened as the ‘one to one movement’- for every shoe a customer buys, TOMS donates a pair to a child in need.
De Beers at the Millennium
Authors: Ghemawat, Pankaj; Marciano, Sonia
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Consumers' increasing awareness that diamond production in some countries was linked to inequities and human rights violations had an impact on De Beers' reputation. In 2000, De Beers' sustainability depends on the ability of its leaders to shift the paradigm of both the firm and its context.
Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction
Author: Clay, Jason
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Oxfam GB, Novib, Unilever, and Unilever Indoneia Joint Project.
Publication Year: 2005
Oxfam GB, Novib (Oxfam Netherlands), Unilever and Unilever Indonesia (UI), have collaborated on a research project to increase their understanding of the impacts of business on the lives of poor people and to explore the potential links between international business and poverty reduction...
Socially Responsible Pricing: Lessons from the Pricing of Aids Drugs in Developing Countries
Authors: Vachani, Sushil; Smith, N. Craig
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review, CMR 300
Publication Year: 2004
Corporate social responsibility has major implications for pricing decisions in some markets...
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.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 (A, B, C)
Authors: Diermeier, Daniel; Heinze, Justin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
After the company's first aviation fatality, Southwest Airlines's CEO is faced with new and difficult decisions.
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (A, B, C)
Author: Velamuri, S. Ramakrishna
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2003
The case outlines the difficulties faced by Strive Masiyiwa in his quest to operate a mobile telecommunications network in Zimbabwe...
AT&T Consumer Products
Authors: White, Wilda; Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1992
Describes the factors AT&T Consumer Products managers considered in deciding whether to locate a new plant for telephone answering machines in the United States, Asia, or Mexico...
Journey to Sakhalin (A, B, C)
Author: Abdelal, Rawi
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Operations of Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia included a strategic alliance with Gazprom, the country's natural gas monopoly, the development of the Salym oil fields in Siberia, and a small retail refilling network in St. Petersburg. This case focuses on the Sakhalin II project.
Jeanette Clough at Mount Auburn Hospital
Authors: Roberts, Laura Morgan; Kanji, Ayesha
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Jeanette Clough, the CEO of Mt. Auburn Hospital, successfully leads a turnaround for the struggling local hospital. The hospital is currently in the midst of a capital campaign to update the facilities and expand. Community groups are resisting the hospital expansion in Cambridge, posing a new set of challenges. The case looks at change management and aligning key constituencies in a health care organization, and at the conflict between an organization's goals and those of the community it serves.
Veridian: Putting a Value on Values
Authors: Khurana, Rakesh; Podolny, Joel; Elias, Jaan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
While some CEOs would have welcomed the opportunity to sell their companies for a substantial premium over its current stock price, David Langstaff had not built Veridian – a medium-sized defense contractor -- to be a high flier in the stock market. Langstaff believed that he was building a "national asset" - a company dedicated to giving the nation's top technologists the opportunity to devise the best solutions to the nation's most pressing problems...
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.
G. Heilman Brewing Company (A): Power Failure at Power Master
Authors: Greyser, Stephen A.; Schille, Wendy S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1991
In June 1991, Heileman announced plans to introduce a high-alcohol malt liquor under the name PowerMaster (PM). Although the company claimed PM would be positioned as an upscale product and marketed on the basis of its superior taste, minority advocates and alcohol foes quickly assailed the company for targeting lower-income, inner-city black consumers...
Germany's 'Green Dot' Waste Management System
Authors: George, S; Govind, S
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2007
The 'Green Dot', a waste management system, was developed to reduce packaging waste as well as to increase recycling / reuse rates in Germany. The case discusses the Green Dot system, giving details about the waste collection, sorting and disposal mechanisms and the charges that companies had to pay to become a part of the system, etc
Mining and Metals: Sustainability and Core Operations
Authors: Shattuck, Rachel; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
The mining and metals industry faces the depletion of resources, the stewardship of land, and the impacts on local communities as issues central to its operations.
Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Programme in Rural Bangladesh
Authors: Richardson, Don; Ramirez, Ricardo; Haq, Moinul
Product Type: Cases
Source: TeleCommons Development Group
Publication Year: 2000
GrameenPhone is a commercial operation providing cellular services in both urban and rural areas of Bangladesh, with approximately 40,000 customers. A pilot programme of GrameenPhone, through the Grameen Bank and a wholly owned subsidiary called Grameen Telecom, is enabling women members of the Grameen Bank's revolving credit system to retail cellular phone services in rural areas...
Inequality: What Role Do Corporations Play?
Author: Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
Widening inequality in the U.S. may appear to be a complex societal problem beyond the reach of corporate solutions. However, corporations have a role both in the sources of and solutions to inequality.
Perspectives on Corporate Governance: Executive Compensation
Author: Levine, David I.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2007
There are many ways in which poorly designed incentives schemes reward executives for destroying long-term shareholder value...
Aligning Corporate Performance with Community Economic Development to Achieve Win-Win Impacts
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2001
J.P. Morgan Chase (formerly the Chase Manhattan Bank) has created an organizational structure to drive business and community development across the organization...
Integrated Strategy: Market and Non-Market Components
Author: Baron, David P.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 1995
A business strategy must be congruent with the capabilities of a firm as well as both its market and nonmarket environments.
Calox Machinery (A, B)
Author: Neidell, Lester A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: NACRA, Case Research Journal / Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 1994
Mike Brown, the international sales manager for Calox, has terminated his New Zealand distributor, Glade Industries, but Glade is contesting the decision and threatening legal action...
Teaching Questions for CGA What the Law Allows Teaching Module
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Exercises
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2005
Premier Inc. (A, B)
Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 2005
Was Premier, Inc., a hospital group purchasing organization (GPO), guilty of ethical conflicts of interest? Premier was a GPO for more than 200 affiliated not-for-profit hospitals and health care systems in the United States. A series of investigative articles in The New York Times, beginning in March 2002, charged Premier with multiple conflicts of interest...
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