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Innovation, Competition, and the Theory of Network Externalities
Author: Besen, Stanley M.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Presented at the Yale University Department of Economics Reunion, The World Economy in the 21st Century.
Publication Year: 1999
Network externalities exist when the value of a product to any user is greater the larger is the number of other users of the same product. For economists, the theory of network effects, or network externalities, or standardization, has wide applicability...
Integrating Sustainability into Management Education: A Status Report
Authors: McGaw, Nancy; Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2005
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of approaches taken by leading business schools around the globe to build the capacity of graduate students to...
Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business
Authors: Friedman, Milton; Mackey, John; Rodgers, T.J.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Reason Magazine
Publication Year: 2005
Thirty-five years ago, Milton Friedman wrote a famous article for The New York Times Magazine whose title aptly summed up its main point: "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits"...John Mackey, the founder and CEO of Whole Foods, believes Friedman's view is too narrow a description of his and many other businesses' activities...
What to Make of Corporate Sustainability?
Author: Lenox, Michael
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2007
Rarely a week goes by without an announcement by some large corporation touting a new initiative on corporate sustainability...
Business Leads, University Students Follow: The Unspoken Influence
Author: DeWilde, Michael A.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source:
Publication Year: 2007
Many university students have, either happily or with some resignation, modeled their curriculum and their aspirations according to what they believe to be true about business leaders. General education, the liberal arts, and even business ethics are to be gotten through with a minimum of effort or attention so that the real work of getting ahead in the world can begin. The author suggests that civic-minded business leaders could do much to help professors of the humanities, primarily by making explicit their reasons for, and satisfactions of, remaining committed to the larger community.
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Wal-Mart and Job Quality
Authors: Dube, Arindrajit; Wertheim, Steve
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Center for American Progress
Publication Year: 2005
Since opening its first store in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas, Wal-Mart has grown to be the world's largest company. However, there is a growing concern that part of Wal-Mart's success is underpinned by a compensation practice that keeps wages low...
Social Impact Management: A Definition
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2002
What is "Social Impact Management?" Aspen BSP uses this term to capture the synergies for businesses in addressing pressing social issues and pursuing business aims.
Social Impact Management and Social Enterprise: Two Sides of the Same Coin or a Totally Different Currency?
Author: Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
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Publication Year: 2002
It may be argued that some of the same realities driving the increasing attention to "social enterprise" are also driving the expansion and re-shaping of attention to the field of "social impact management." And just as the term "social enterprise" suggests a terrain that is broader than "non-profit and public management," so too, the term "social impact management" refers to a terrain that is wider and differently positioned than the usual arenas of "corporate social responsibility" or "business ethics."
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Raising the Stakes or Finally Seeing Them Clearly? Balanced Leadership in Times of Economic Crisis
Authors: Jusela, Gary E.; Wiggenhorn, William; Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2002
Following on a long and steep upsurge of historic proportions, the U.S. stock market, and technology-oriented companies in particular experienced a sharp and punishing plunge in late 2000 and the early part of 2001. When we look beneath the numbers to try to understand the experiential reality of this downturn, a complicated picture begins to emerge.
Corporate Governance Revisited: What Do We Know and What Do We Teach Future Business Leaders?
Authors: Gentile, Mary C.; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
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Publication Year: 2004
This summary shares many of the themes that emerged from a series of interviews we conducted in 2003 on “Corporate Governance and Accountability.” We interviewed 29 faculty members in the areas of accounting, business law, economics, finance, and strategy about the current state of research, practice, and teaching on corporate governance and what new approaches might be needed.
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