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Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
Gathering Green Data: Tools and Tips
Costing Digital ArticleIn my last post, I talked about the ways you can use green data — footprinting information on your products and services up and down the value chain — to create enormous value for your company. As they say, you can’t manage what you don’t measure. And those with the best information can cut costs, […] -
Companies Must Go Beyond Random Acts of Humanitarianism
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYour corporate purpose should lead the way. -
The Drucker Forum: Three Messages for Managers
Leadership Digital ArticleI recently returned from the Peter Drucker Global Forum Vienna, Austria, an event held as part of the centennial celebration of Peter Drucker’s birth. Having studied and written about Drucker extensively, spent years infusing his thinking into my own management consulting work, and befriended him late in his life, I take three messages from the […] -
Should Mark Zuckerberg Resign?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHe needs to either drastically shift his thinking or leave. -
Companies that Practice “Conscious Capitalism” Perform 10x Better
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleWhy should that be a surprise? -
A Question of Character
Leadership Magazine ArticleJoe Ryan turned a small-town cosmetics company into a national powerhouse, making employees happy and shareholders rich in the process. Does it really matter that he cheats on his wife? -
What Good Business Looks Like
Global Business Digital ArticleA rising number of companies are meeting the pandemic with humanity. -
Research: People Use Less Energy When They Think Their Neighbors Care About the Environment
Leadership & Managing People ResearchHow social norms can help people become more sustainable. -
Competitive Advantage of the Inner City
Global Business Magazine ArticleThe economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban... -
From Starbucks to Nike, Business Asks for Green Legislation
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleWould it surprise you to learn that Starbucks is a leading advocate for action on climate change? Think about it. Starbucks’ success hinges on a robust coffee crop, which needs certain growing conditions. But the company is seeing the imprint of climate change on coffee growing regions around the world. Global rainfall and harvest patterns […] -
Copenhagen: Why the U.S. Should Build a Green City
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleThe conversation at the Copenhagen climate conference is all about policy. But regulation won’t stop global warming by itself. Nor will simply spending money on clean technologies. In the US, President Obama has earmarked a half billion dollars of initial funding for a breathtaking array of renewable technologies. This looks like bold action, but it […] -
Unifying Your Company Around a Moral Goal
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Ethics in Practice
Business ethics Magazine ArticleAs the 1990s overtake us, public interest in ethics is at a historic high. While the press calls attention to blatant derelictions on Wall Street, in the defense industry, and in the Pentagon, and to questionable activities in the White House, in the attorney general’s office, and in Congress, observers wonder whether our society is […] -
Enterprising Nonprofits
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleBecause they face rising costs, more competition for fewer donations and grants, and increased rivalry from for-profit companies entering the social sector,... -
Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleSatisfied with doing good, too few foundations work strategically to do better. -
Is Germany a Model for Managers?
Labor Magazine ArticleMost American managers have a hard time making sense of Germany. It has a fraction of the resources and less than one-third the population of the United States. Labor costs are higher, paid vacations are at least three times as long, and strong unions are deeply involved at all levels of business, from the local […] -
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleManagers should make environmental investments for the same reason they make other investments: because they expect them to deliver positive returns or to reduce risks. -
How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThere is an undeniable gap between what consumers say they want and what they are actually putting in their baskets.
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Best Buy
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Documents the evolution of Best Buy, an electronics retailer, from its founding in 1966 to its very successful "Concept 2" strategy in 1996, boosting... -
CEMEX's Patrimonio Hoy: At the Tipping Point?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case sets the stage for the 2012 case study "Constructing a Base-of-the-Pyramid Business in a Multinational Corporation: CEMEX's Patrimonio Hoy Looks... -
Bridges Ventures
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Bridges Ventures, a UK-based impact investor with double-digit returns on its investments, is reflecting on its social impact and pondering its future... -
VisionSpring: A Lens for Growth at the Base of the Pyramid
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Awarded 1st place in the 2008 oikos Casewriting Competition. VisionSpring sells affordable reading glasses to the poor at the base of the pyramid through... -
Block 16: Environmental Groups' Perspectives
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Provides the environmental groups' perspective on Conoco's Ecuadorian strategy. Designed to be... -
Illumination Solar: Delivering Energy Poverty Solutions
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In October 2017, the co-founder of Australian social enterprise Illumination Solar was rethinking his company's Give Power campaign. After five marginally... -
Antegren: A Beacon of Hope
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The CEO of Biogen Idec faces a set of difficult decisions regarding a promising drug for Multiple Sclerosis that is headed for early approval by the FDA.... -
Joel Klein and Leadership in the NYC Public Schools
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Reviews the work of the New York City School Chancellor Joel Klein and his attempt to create a Leadership Academy in order to better train principals... -
International Drilling Corp. (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Details the moral conflict experienced by Don Taylor, a new high-level executive in an oil drilling firm, when he discovered that the firm was deceiving... -
Creating and Sustaining a Social Enterprise: The Vittala Story
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Vittala International Institute of Ophthalmology (Vittala), a not-for-profit organization was involved in providing free/highly subsidized eye care to... -
Soccer Balls Made for Children by Children? Child Labor in Pakistan (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The case describes an international agreement to phase out child labor in soccer-ball manufacturing. This high-profile agreement, which resolves major... -
One Water: A Refreshingly Different "Ethical" Product
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Partnerships between companies and non-profit causes are viewed as a key means to tackle many sustainable development challenges, and cause-related marketing... -
Hewlett-Packard's Home Products Division in Europe--1996-2000
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details By November 2000, Hewlett-Packard's Home Products Division (HPD) had been selling its Pavilion line of personal computers in Europe for almost five years.... -
Hard-Won Accord: British Columbia & EDS Canada Tackle a Complex Contract Negotiation Abridged
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for case HKS147 -
Long-Term Orientation in the Benedictine Monastery of Admont
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details At the Benedictine monastery of Admont in Austria, which had been economically active for over 940 years, the monks tended to think in centuries rather... -
Gigawatt Global: Electricity in Africa Fueled by the Power of Purpose
Management Case Study11.95View Details Third Place Winner; 2023 Energy Innovation in LMICs Global Case Writing Competition Gigawatt Global Coöperatief U.A., a multinational renewable energy... -
Interface's Net-Works Program: A New Approach to Creating Social Value through Sustainable Sourcing
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Interface ranks among the top three manufacturers in the carpet industry, measured by revenues per year. Through its sustainability program, the company... -
Social Enterprise Spectrum: Philanthropy to Commerce
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details With the boundaries between philanthropy and commerce blurring, this note briefly gives nonprofit managers and social entrepreneurs a framework (the Social... -
SNA Educa (ex Codesser)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details SNA Educa (previously known as Codesser) is a non-profit organization which was created by the National Association of Farmers (Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura,... -
One Acre Fund: Outgrowing the Board
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details One Acre Fund, a young, international, nonprofit social enterprise--governed by friends of the founder--had grown rapidly since its inception. It now...
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Best Buy
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Documents the evolution of Best Buy, an electronics retailer, from its founding in 1966 to its very successful "Concept 2" strategy in 1996, boosting... -
CEMEX's Patrimonio Hoy: At the Tipping Point?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case sets the stage for the 2012 case study "Constructing a Base-of-the-Pyramid Business in a Multinational Corporation: CEMEX's Patrimonio Hoy Looks... -
Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
Gathering Green Data: Tools and Tips
Costing Digital ArticleIn my last post, I talked about the ways you can use green data — footprinting information on your products and services up and down the value chain — to create enormous value for your company. As they say, you can’t manage what you don’t measure. And those with the best information can cut costs, […] -
Companies Must Go Beyond Random Acts of Humanitarianism
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYour corporate purpose should lead the way. -
The Connection Between Competitive Advantage and Social Issues
Competitive strategy VisualThere are numerous ways in which addressing societal concerns can yield productivity benefits to a firm but there are seven areas where the connection to productivity tends to be the strongest. -
Bridges Ventures
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Bridges Ventures, a UK-based impact investor with double-digit returns on its investments, is reflecting on its social impact and pondering its future... -
The Drucker Forum: Three Messages for Managers
Leadership Digital ArticleI recently returned from the Peter Drucker Global Forum Vienna, Austria, an event held as part of the centennial celebration of Peter Drucker’s birth. Having studied and written about Drucker extensively, spent years infusing his thinking into my own management consulting work, and befriended him late in his life, I take three messages from the […] -
VisionSpring: A Lens for Growth at the Base of the Pyramid
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Awarded 1st place in the 2008 oikos Casewriting Competition. VisionSpring sells affordable reading glasses to the poor at the base of the pyramid through... -
Should Mark Zuckerberg Resign?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHe needs to either drastically shift his thinking or leave.