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Strategies for Sustainable Development Course
by Andrew Hoffman
Product Type: Course  Publication Date: 06/2012  Product ID#: 1-429-257  Length: 524pages
The Strategies for Sustainable Development course is comprised of seven teaching modules that prepare the student to address the most critical issues at the intersection of business and sustainability. Together they address several facets of the competitive aspects of the corporate response to sustainability.
Strategies for Sustainable Development—Module 2
by Andrew Hoffman
Product Type: Module  Publication Date: 06/2012  Product ID#: 1-429-262  Length: 4pages
This is the second of seven modules in the Strategies for Sustainable Development Course. Module 2 prepares students for strategic analysis in the area of sustainable product development and increasing consumer demand. Students are asked to articulate a set of comprehensive competitive strategies associated with sustainable product development. Students also evaluate the challenges...
Strategies for Sustainable Development—Module 4
by Andrew Hoffman
Product Type: Module  Publication Date: 06/2012  Product ID#: 1-429-264  Length: 108pages
This is the fourth of seven modules in the Strategies for Sustainable Development Course. In module 4, students identify the benefits and risks associated with bringing sustainability strategies to the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP), the billions of people who live on less than $3,000 per year in the informal economy of the developing world, and explore the challenges and constraints fa...
Jamba Juice and the Foam Cup
by Andrew Hoffman
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 02/2013  Product ID#: 1-429-298  Length: 20pages
Environmental issues increasingly influence many aspects of business including strategy, public relations, and supply chain operations. This case centers on whether or not Jamba Juice, a publicly held smoothie company, should respond to online public pressure to cease use of polystyrene foam cups. Students will explore how companies respond to public scrutiny and consider what actions make business sense for companies when faced with the public’s increasing demands for companies to be more sustainable.
REI Rentals
by Damian Beil, Wallace Hopp
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 01/2013  Product ID#: 1-429-292  Length: 20pages
Kirk Myers, REI’s Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), twirled his pen around his thumb and forefinger. Staring out the window toward misty Mt. Rainier, Myers thought hard, recalling a conference call with his boss, CSR Director Kevin Hagen, and Retail Operations Manager Teresa Mueller several weeks before. At the end of the conversation, Myers was tasked with an assignment outside his usual realm of responsibility—find a way to optimize the rental program across REI retail locations to maximiz
Cisco - Supply Chain Risk Mgt (H1N1)
by Ravi Anupindi
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 07/2012  Product ID#: 1-428-881  Length: 32pages
Cisco's story will expose students to supply chain risk management (SCRM). Cisco's simulation of a flu outbreak in Asia will leave students with a better understanding of how to utilize SCRM programs.
NextEra Energy
by Andrew Hoffman
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 06/2012  Product ID#: 1-429-232  Length: 18pages
Rick Anderson, senior director of NextEra’s Green Marketing Group, is crafting a marketing strategy to move Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) on the voluntary market by demonstrating the added value of the company’s EarthEra RECs. NextEra not only markets RECs, but also funds the construction of renewable energy projects. Anderson is seeking to expand the EarthEra program and brand. While there has been some good responses to EarthEra RECs, there have also been setbacks....
Note on How to Write a Teaching Note
by GlobaLens
Product Type: Conceptual Note  Publication Date: 05/2012  Product ID#: 1-429-016  Length: 8pages
This note is available FREE of CHARGE; simply click the product preview pdf and access the complete document. This note is intended to give you a basic overview on how to write a teaching note. In general, there are seven major sections of a teaching note: 1. Case Overview 2. Teaching Objectives 3. Pedagogy 4. Case Analysis 5. Assignment Questions 6. Teaching Plan 7. Conclusion Aft...
CEMEX's Patrimonio Hoy: At the Tipping Point?
by Ted London
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 04/2012  Product ID#: 1-428-606  Length: 25pages
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 to Grow." This case study explores Patrimonio Hoy in 2006, the sales, distribution, and savings program that serves Mexico’s self-construction housing market. Since then, Patrimonio Hoy has gone from a small, centrally-funded project to a US$25 million in revenue. This case explores the initiative's opportunities for growth and expansion into new markets.
Oxfam-Swiss Re Micro-insurance Partnership in Ethiopia
by Jonathan Doh, Ted London
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 03/2012  Product ID#: 1-429-185  Length: 22pages
Winner of the 2012 Oikos Foundation Casewriting Competition. Swiss Re, a large global reinsurance company, has partnered with Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization, to provide the poor with risk reduction support. The partnership's evolution shows students many common inter- and intra-organizational challenges. For example, the need to overcome interna...
Patagonia: Encouraging Customers to Buy Used Clothing (A)
by Andrew Hoffman
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 03/2012  Product ID#: 1-429-230  Length: 22pages
How do you make money when you tell your customers 'don't buy our stuff unless you really need it?'" This was the question that Yvon Chouinard, founder of the clothing company Patagonia, asked himself as he considered developing a new partnership with eBay in which customers would buy and sell used Patagonia gear on eBay rather than buy it new. As he considered this new partnership...
Patagonia: Encouraging Customers to Buy Used Clothing (B)
by Andrew Hoffman
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 03/2012  Product ID#: 1-429-231  Length: 6pages
How do you make money when you tell your customers 'don't buy our stuff unless you really need it?'" This was the question that Yvon Chouinard, founder of the clothing company Patagonia, asked himself as he considered developing a new partnership with eBay in which customers would buy and sell used Patagonia gear on eBay rather than buy it new. As he considered this new partnership...
Growing Pains of the Tata Nano
by Scott A. Moore, Suresh Malladi
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 02/2012  Product ID#: 1-429-235  Length: 20pages
Ratan Tata, CEO of Tata Motors, wants to introduce the world's cheapest car, priced at $2,500, for the common Indian - the car is the Tata Nano and has been accordingly dubbed the "People's Car". But the introduction of the Nano has been ridden with difficulties. Coupled with poor sales and a recent crisis where several Nanos caught on fire, the Tata Nano has seen dismal sales. Thi...
Kinder, Lydenberg, and Domini and Socially Responsible Investing
by Paul Godfrey
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 12/2011  Product ID#: 1-429-215  Length: 22pages
This case study tells the story of KLD Research & Analytics, which provided annual social responsibility ratings for over 3,000 companies, employed over 60 people, and was widely regarded as a leader in social investment research. One of this case's key learning outcomes will be helping students realize that starting and growing a successful social venture takes more than individua...
CEMEX's Patrimonio Hoy (VIDEO)
by Ted London
Product Type: Audio/Video  Publication Date: 09/2011  Product ID#: 1-429-205  Length: 0minutes
This video is a companion to the case study Patrimonio Hoy , which explores the sales, distribution, and savings program of CEMEX intended to serve Mexico’s large self-construction housing market. CEMEX is currently the world's third largest cement producer. Over the years, Patrimonio Hoy has gone from a small, centrally-funded project to a US$25 million revenue generator for CEMEX...
Note on Corporate Social Responsibility
by Aneel Karnani, Pietra Rivoli, Sandra Waddock
Product Type: Conceptual Note  Publication Date: 09/2011  Product ID#: 1-429-177  Length: 10pages
This note is a summary of the articles originally published in the Winter 2011 issue of the California Management Review, vol. 53, No. 2. Professor Aneel Karnani from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business debated against Professors Pietra Rivoli from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and Sandra Waddock of Boston College’s Carroll School of Manageme...
Business Thought & Action, Module 5: Business and Society
by Robert J. Dolan, Robert E. Kennedy, Scott A. Moore
Product Type: Module  Publication Date: 08/2011  Product ID#: 1-429-191  Length: 22pages
This fifth module Business Thought & Action™ course challenges students to think to the way that business can be used to create a positive social environmental impact. Since students in this course are typically early undergraduate business students, this module is powerful in its ability to influence students’ decisions to pursue campus involvement, internships, and job opportunit...
Range Resources
by Andrew Hoffman, Steve Percy
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 06/2011  Product ID#: 1-429-168  Length: 28pages
John Pinkerton, CEO of natural gas company Range Resources, must consider supporting or condemning a new bill passed by Congress that could add more regulations to one of Range's most effective mining methods: fracking. Pinkerton must consider the benefits and costs of supporting or condemning the new legislation and how it will impact his company.
ITC e-Choupal 3.0
by C.K. Prahalad, M.S. Krishnan
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 05/2011  Product ID#: 1-428-915  Length: 24pages
This case study is an in-depth analysis of ITC’s initiative to develop third-generation e-Choupals, or internet-enabled computer stations based in villages. The first e-Choupals provided information on weather, best practices, crop details, market prices, and important local news to farmers in 1999. The third generation e-Choupals are envisioned to mitigate a lack of information ab...
Leadership Crisis Challenge
by Susan Ashford
Product Type: Leadership Crisis Challenge  Publication Date: 01/2011  Product ID#: 1-429-121  Length: 22pages
Winner of the 2011 University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize This role-playing simulation allows students to make decisions in real-time based on rapidly-changing business scenarios. Students become the senior executives for AquaStar Bottled Water, a company accused of contaminating Michigan's public water system. They must make critical decisions that will develo...
Enron: The Rise and Fall
by Scott A. Moore
Product Type: Profile  Publication Date: 12/2010  Product ID#: 1-429-058  Length: 20pages
In 1999, Enron was the #1 company in innovation and quality of management. Less than two years later, it filed for bankruptcy in one of the most portent fraud cases of the decade. The story of Enron’s rise and fall tells a lot about manipulation of accounting and regulatory standards and about the disregard of ethics and law in pursuit of money and excellence. Against the backdrop...
Annapurna Salt
by C.K. Prahalad
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 12/2010  Product ID#: 1-429-155  Length: 30pages
In India, Iodine Deficiency Disorder hinders the growth and intellectual development of 70 million people, with twenty percent of the population at risk. Yet up to fifty percent of the iodine in iodized salt can be lost during storage, transportation, and Indian cooking. Using world-class technology, Hindustan Lever Ltd. has developed a more stable iodine for salt that is effective...
Voxiva
by C.K. Prahalad
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 12/2010  Product ID#: 1-429-157  Length: 17pages
Peru's struggle in the early 1990s to control a cholera outbreak took years, cost thousands of lives, and meant over $770 million dollars in lost productivity, trade, and tourism for Peru's economy. Voxiva's product, Alerta, is one tool Peru is using to fight back against infectious disease outbreaks. It transforms the typical village telephone into a tool for effectively reporting...
Honest Tea
by Andrew Hoffman
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 09/2010  Product ID#: 1-428-947  Length: 22pages
Are “wide-scale distribution” and “sustainability” mutually exclusive? This case explores this question through the examples of Honest Tea, one of the fast growing companies in the Ready-To-Drink market, and Coca-Cola. Honest Tea faces a challenging decision: whether or not to sell part of its business to Coca-Cola. Honest Tea desires to stay committed to CSR goals and maintain its...
Women Entrepreneurs in Rwanda (English):Lumberyard
by Etienne Musonera
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 09/2010  Product ID#: 1-429-071  Length: 10pages
This case was written about an alumnus of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative, which aims to bring high-quality business and management education to 10,000 underserved women around the world. It was written to be used for a cohort of the same program. See Kinyarwanda version if needed. This case describes Anastasie Nyirabukeye’s timber and woodwork business and chronicles her...
Heart of Reuters, The (Video)
by Jane Dutton
Product Type: Audio/Video  Publication Date: 08/2010  Product ID#: 1-429-115  Length: 0minutes
This video set accompanies the The Heart of Reuters case studies (Parts A and B). The case studies explore the responses of Reuters America to the incidents of 9/11/2001. Part A describes the range of adaptive responses to 9/11, and invites the question, “What is it about the culture, structure, and strategy of Reuters that explains the organization's response pattern?” Part B desc...
Coke in the Crosshairs
by Andrew Hoffman, Sarah Howie, Grace Augustine
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 07/2010  Product ID#: 1-429-098  Length: 22pages
How do you maintain relationships with companies that serve a majority of people, but upset an outspoken minority? Winner of the 2011 Oikos Casewriting Competition, this case explores a tenuous relationship that existed in 2006 between the University of Michigan, a student activist group pushing for environmental reform, and the Coca-Cola Company. Pressured by this activist group,...
Sweetest Business of Nestle Venezuela
by Deborah Mendez, Steve Koch
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 07/2010  Product ID#: 1-429-090  Length: 18pages
This is the Next Billion/WDI 2010 Case Writing Competition Winner. This case explores the need to scale BoP initiatives in a cost-efficient manner to create a measurable positive impact on the lives of BoP consumers and the long-term financial performance of Nestle Venezuela. Nestlé Venezuela marketed a portfolio of products and wanted to strengthen its bond with Bottom of Pyramid (BoP) consumers.
Stonewall Community Foundation
by Christie L. Nordhielm
Product Type: Profile  Publication Date: 07/2010  Product ID#: 1-428-932  Length: 12pages
This case follows Bill Mattle, the executive director of the Stonewall Community Foundation (SCF). SCF is “the public charity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) New York.” Bill was pleased to have achieved the year’s fundraising goals, but was concerned about the year ahead. Fundraising had become increasingly difficult in a depressed economic climate, with regular d...
Monsanto Company (A) (Spanish)
by Stuart Hart
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 06/2010  Product ID#: 1-429-093  Length: 38pages
Este caso explora la estrategia de negocios de la empresa Monsanto siguiendo principios de sostenibilidad y su consiguiente transicion de productor de quimicos a una gran compañia de “ciencias de la vida”, particularmente en el area de la bioquímica. Este caso presenta cinco secciones: 1) una encuesta de desafíos a la sostenibilidad que enfrenta el sector agrícola, 2) una visión ge...
Monsanto Company (B) (Spanish)
by Stuart Hart
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 06/2010  Product ID#: 1-429-094  Length: 10pages
Después de dos años de controversia en relación a sus cultivos genéticamente modificados y sus futuros planes de biotecnología en agricultura, Monsanto se enfrenta con el fracaso de una fusion planificada de su compañia y una caída de precio de las acciones. Con el crecimiento del mercado estancado y la fuerte desaprobación pública de la empresa, Monsanto debe determinar el camino...
LCC: Timora International
by Susan Ashford
Product Type: Leadership Crisis Challenge  Publication Date: 05/2010  Product ID#: 1-428-930  Length: 21pages
Winner of the 2011 University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize This simulation presents students with a realistic business challenge that lies at the intersection of social, environmental and financial constraints. It encourages students to practice and gain critical leadership skills, such as using judgment to navigate an ambiguous crisis situation, thinking on the...
Sherwin - Williams: VOCs in Full Color
by Andrew Hoffman
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 05/2010  Product ID#: 1-428-993  Length: 16pages
In late 1996, Sherwin-Williams CEO John Breen sat at his desk, preparing for another meeting with his board of directors. The room was dark except for a small stream of light that escaped the curtains hung heavily over the windows. Outside, rain was falling onto the company’s corporate headquarters and on the streets of Cleveland. Breen stared at the portraits of company founders H...
Clorox Company Goes Green
by Andrew Hoffman
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 05/2010  Product ID#: 1-429-087  Length: 26pages
Finalist and 3rd Place winner in the 2011 Oikos Casewriting Competition In early 2008, Clorox released a new line of environmentally friendly cleaning products called GreenWorks. The product line was the first new brand released by Clorox in 20 years. Following the success of smaller firms such as Seventh Generation and Method, Clorox targeted the niche market of green products, wi...
Heart of Reuters (A), The
by Jane Dutton
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 03/2010  Product ID#: 1-428-855  Length: 14pages
The Heart of Reuters (Parts A and B) describes the responses of Reuters America to the incidents of 9/11/2001. The Heart of Reuters Part A describes the range of adaptive responses to the events of 9/11, and invites the question, "What is it about the culture, structure, and strategy of Reuters that explains the organization's response pattern?"The Heart of Reuters is ideal for a d...
Heart of Reuters (B), The
by Jane Dutton
Product Type: Mini-Case  Publication Date: 03/2010  Product ID#: 1-428-860  Length: 4pages
The Heart of Reuters (Parts A and B) describes the responses of Reuters America to the incidents of 9/11/2001. The Heart of Reuters-Part B describes the range of the impact of Reuters' responses to 9/11 on employees. The Heart of Reuters is ideal for a discussion of leadership and change, crisis management, resilience, and compassion. The video, also available, adds to the discussi...
Women Entrepreneurs in Rwanda (English): Banana Wine
by Etienne Musonera
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 03/2010  Product ID#: 1-429-070  Length: 12pages
This case was written for a class in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative, which aims to bring high-quality business and management education to 10,000 underserved women around the world. It was taught in classes consisting of about 30 women entrepreneurs each in Kigali, Rwanda, and it described the banana wine business of Christine Murebwayire, an alumnus of the program. See...
China Mobile and Climate Change
by Jacob Park, Rick Bunch
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 02/2010  Product ID#: 1-428-876  Length: 36pages
In September 2009, Chinese President Hu declared that China would reduce the amount of carbon dioxide it emits by a notable margin by 2020 and work to develop a green economy. At the same time, the Chairman of the largest telecom company in China (China Mobile) was awaiting the release of his company’s third CSR report, as well as the conclusion of the Green Action Plan, a comprehe...
Russell Athletic Honduran Labor (A)
by Brian Talbot
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 01/2010  Product ID#: 1-428-826  Length: 24pages
Russell Athletic, one of the University of Michigan's primary providers of collegiate athletic clothing, is involved in a serious labor rights controversy. Russell had been a trustworthy and responsible supplier for years, but the University of Michigan committee was very concerned about Russell’s decision to close a manufacturing facility in Honduras, a move that received severe c...
BP & Whiting Refinery (B)
by Tom Lyon
Product Type: Mini-Case  Publication Date: 12/2009  Product ID#: 1-428-736  Length: 4pages
This mini-case is a follow-up to the BP and the Whiting Refinery Case (A), which describes the situation facing BP America's President Bob Malone in late 2007. Malone could not understand where they had gone wrong while attempting to expand the refining capacity at their Whiting, Indiana plant. They had followed all the rules set out by the Indiana Department of Environmental Manag...
Rainforest Expeditions
by Gautam Kaul, Kate Elliott
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 10/2009  Product ID#: 1-428-799  Length: 16pages
2004 marked the 15th anniversary of the founding of the ecotourism company Rainforest Expeditions (RFE). A decade and a half of experience led the company’s cofounders, Eduardo Nycander and Kurt Holle, to gain international exposure and praise for their environmentally and socially responsible business practices in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. Most notable among their socially...
Leadership Crisis Challenge: Olick Int'l
by Susan Ashford
Product Type: Leadership Crisis Challenge  Publication Date: 08/2009  Product ID#: 1-428-769  Length: 52pages
Winner of the 2011 University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize This simulation presents students with a realistic business challenge that sits at the intersection of social, environmental, and financial constraints. It encourages students to practice and gain critical leadership skills such as using judgment to navigate an ambiguous crisis situation, thinking on the...
Caring Company: CSR in Hong Kong
by James Walsh
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 07/2009  Product ID#: 1-428-770  Length: 22pages
This case study focuses on the Caring Company scheme, one of the most prominent Corporate Social Responsibility programs in Hong Kong. The case was built off of first-hand field research and it follows the leaders of The Hong Kong Council of Social Service through their years building the Caring Company program, discussing their journey towards bridging the divide between Hong Kong...
EIA at S.C. Johnson
by Stuart Hart
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 05/2009  Product ID#: 1-428-778  Length: 16pages
SC Johnson, a leading consumer products goods company, developed a patented process, Greenlist, to assess the environmental impact of its raw materials. The case study takes the reader through SC Johnson's history and the development and improvement of the Greenlist process. It asks students what options the company has to license, share, or consult other organizations in implement...
Corruption in Int'l Business (A)
by Robert E. Kennedy
Product Type: Conceptual Note  Publication Date: 05/2009  Product ID#: 1-428-641  Length: 16pages
This note focuses on corruption in international business. It defines corruption, outlines the international laws governing bribery and corruption, and includes caselets that challenge students to put themselves in the shoes of high-profile decision makers who need to balance the ethical, legal, and practical nature of potentially corrupt situations. This note can be used with its...
Tandus 2010: Race to Sustainability (A)
by Mark Milstein, Stuart Hart
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 05/2009  Product ID#: 1-428-782  Length: 20pages
This case describes the strategic and environmental challenges at Tandus (formerly Collins & Aikman Floorcoverings, Inc), one of the world’s leaders in floor covering products. Case A gives an overview of the U.S. carpet industry and the environmental strides of different players. It then follows protagonists Mac Bridger and Lee Schilling through their efforts to make Tandus an env...
Tandus 2010: Race to Sustainability (B)
by Mark Milstein, Stuart Hart
Product Type: Mini-Case  Publication Date: 05/2009  Product ID#: 1-428-783  Length: 6pages
This case describes the strategic and environmental challenges at Tandus (formerly Collins & Aikman Floorcoverings, Inc), one of the world’s leaders in floor covering products. Case B gives an update on the pathway that Tandus followed from 2002 to 2009, in particular with its environmental strategy. It discusses such issues as policy changes, the competitive landscape, and Tandus’...
BP & Whiting Refinery (A)
by Tom Lyon
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 12/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-727  Length: 11pages
Teaching Note available to Registered Educators This case describes the situation facing BP America's President Bob Malone in late 2007. Malone could not understand where they had gone wrong while attempting to expand the refining capacity at their Whiting, Indiana plant. They had followed all the rules set out by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and legally obta...
Weyerhaeuser Company
by Stuart Hart, Mark Milstein
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 09/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-672  Length: 20pages
Weyerhaeuser is the world’s largest private owner of standing softwood timber, North America’s largest producer of softwood lumber, and the world’s largest supplier of softwood pulp. The company had spent years investing in a model of forestry they now called Weyerhaeuser Forestry and looked forward with much anticipation to the ‘Wall of Wood’ that was expected as high-yield planta...
Nike’s World Shoe Project (A)
by Stuart Hart, Ted London
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 09/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-673  Length: 20pages
Nike's Footwear Director for Emerging Markets was challenged with “expanding the playing field” in emerging markets with a range of affordable, durable, and easy-to-produce sports shoes. The goal was to effectively reach the huge untapped segment of “Tier 3” countries, characterized by a population of 1 billion and an average of $2,000 purchasing power parity. By January 2001, the...
Nike’s World Shoe Project (B)
by Stuart Hart, Ted London
Product Type: Mini-Case  Publication Date: 09/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-674  Length: 3pages
Nike’s World Shoe Project (B) accompanies Case (A). This one-page summary is designed to be handed out in class to give students an update on Nike's strategy for entering China.
Monsanto Company (A)
by Stuart Hart
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 09/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-688  Length: 36pages
This case explores Monsanto's sustainability-based strategy and subsequent transition from a chemical company to a giant in the life sciences, particularly in the area of biotechnology. There are five sections to this case 1) a survey of the sustainability challenges facing the agricultural sector, 2) an overview of the agbiotech industry, 3) a brief history of the Monsanto company...
Monsanto Company (B)
by Stuart Hart
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 09/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-689  Length: 10pages
Following two years of sustained controversy over its genetically modified crops and its plans for the future of biotechnology in agriculture, Monsanto must face the significant failure of a planned merger and a plummeting stock price. With market growth stagnant and strong public disapproval Monsanto must determine the path into the future for its life sciences division.
Leadership Crisis Challenge: Pharmeck
by Susan Ashford
Product Type: Leadership Crisis Challenge  Publication Date: 09/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-585  Length: 14pages
Winner of the 2011 University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize This simulation presents students with a hypothetical yet realistic business challenge that sits at the intersection of social, environmental, and financial constraints. The student teams are asked to take on the role of pharmaceutical executives who have just received news that an Indian subsidiary of t...
Corruption in Int'l Business (B)
by Robert E. Kennedy
Product Type: Conceptual Note  Publication Date: 04/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-644  Length: 16pages
This note focuses on corruption in international business. It defines corruption, outlines the international laws governing bribery and corruption, and discusses the different actors and tactics to combat corruption. This note can be used with its counterpart, Corruption in International Business (A).
AMREF & Guardian in Katine Village
by Christie L. Nordhielm
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 02/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-661  Length: 11pages
AMREF (African Medical and Research Foundation) is an NGO working on health-related issues in Africa; the Guardian is one of the largest newspapers in the UK. As a part of expanding its coverage on development, the Guardian formed a partnership with AMREF to work on development issues in Katine, a village in eastern Uganda. However, as the partnership developed, issues regarding cultural differences and questions of sustainability began to rise.
Oxfam vs. Starbucks
by Christie L. Nordhielm
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 02/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-664  Length: 22pages
Oxfam and a coalition of allies asked Starbucks to sign an agreement to allow the country of Ethiopia to control the names of coffees grown in certain areas of the country. According to one coalition member, gaining control of the name brands could increase Ethiopia's coffee export income by more than $88 million annually. This money could go a long way to help lift millions of Eth...
McDonald’s Environmental Strategy
by Stuart Hart
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 01/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-677  Length: 18pages
McDonald's Case (A) is the first piece in the McDonald's case series. It gives the background on McDonald's and the organization's environmental initiatives in the early 1990s. In particular, it presents a partnership that McDonald's formed with the Environmental Defense Fund to create a systematic approach and a strong scientific basis for McDonald’s solid waste decisions. This ca...
McDonald's Clamshell Controversy
by Stuart Hart
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 01/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-678  Length: 16pages
McDonald's Case (B1) is the second piece in the McDonald's case series. It describes the decision-making process and subsequent decisions that McDonald's made regarding its polystyrene “clamshell” sandwich containers. Environmentally concerned customers oppose these containers despite scientific arguments that they are preferred over paper wraps. It contains details on the Life-Cycle Analysis that was adopted, and walks the students through the packaging methodology and analysis.
McDonald's Environmental Success
by Stuart Hart
Product Type: Case  Publication Date: 01/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-679  Length: 13pages
McDonald's Case (C) is the fourth piece in the McDonald's case series. It describes the organization's response to the fact that in April 1993 another nonprofit environmental group, The Beyond Beef Coalition, targeted McDonald’s in a campaign to reduce beef consumption. McDonald's struggled with this backlash, and the case asks students how McDonald's can deal with this effectively...
McDonald's: environmental decisions
by Stuart Hart
Product Type: Mini-Case  Publication Date: 01/2008  Product ID#: 1-428-687  Length: 3pages
Case B2 is the third of part of the McDonald's Case Series. It is a short summary of McDonald's decision regarding the clamshells. It also highlights reactions to the decision from various newspaper editors, suppliers, and the national polystyrene recycling center. This can be provided to students as a follow-up in class, and should be used alongside case B1.
 
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