Hello fellow MG-ED-DV subscribers-
As the year draws to a close, I thought you might be interested specifically in the CasePlace.org collection of curricular materials Reflecting on the Year's Progress Regarding Business and Society: Voices of Hope and Voices of Skepticism.
CasePlace.org remains an entirely cost-free resource, and the full text of many cases and articles is often available to faculty.
Have a great holiday season.
Rich Leimsider, Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
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2005: The Year in Review
As 2005 draws to a close, it is a good time to reflect on how and whether corporations have changed the way they do business over the past year. This month we link to a brand new Featured Collection, Reflecting on the Year's Progress Regarding Business and Society: Voices of Hope and Voices of Skepticism, which poses the question: Will fundamental change really occur? See below for more.
Two cases are also featured that provide a good backdrop to the featured collection. BP and Coporate Greenwash and Anatomy of a Corporate Campaign: Rainforest Action Network and Citigroup both concern two of the worlds largest corporations and the effects their business decisions have had (or have not had) on society.
Corporate Governance and Accountability (CGA)
With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, we continue to examine the prevailing models of corporate governance and theories of the firm as they are understood, researched, and taught by business school faculty.
On December 2nd, as part of this initiative, Aspen BSP held a web conference to present newly developed Corporate Governance and Accountability teaching modules for use and adaptation in the MBA classroom. You can view these two modules here: What the Law Allows <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/collections/collections_show.htm?doc_id%3d306896');> and Maximizing Shareholder Value: What Are Shareholders' Interests? <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/collections/collections_show.htm?doc_id%3d315508');>
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Reflecting on the Year's Progress Regarding Business and Society: Voices of Hope and Voices of Skepticism <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/collections/collections_show.htm?doc_id%3d328321%26enews%3d1');>
As 2005 draws to a close, it is a good time to review how corporations have changed the way they do business over the past year. Many corporations have proposed changes that prompt the question: Will fundamental change really occur? Read More >> <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/collections/collections_show.htm?doc_id%3d328321%26enews%3d1');>
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Anatomy of a Corporate Campaign: Rainforest Action Network and Citigroup <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/cases/cases_show.htm?doc_id%3d286081%26enews%3d1');>
Author: Research Associate Erin Yurday, under the supervision of David P. Baron, David S. and Ann M. Barlow Professor of Political Economy and Strategy
Company: Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Citigroup, the world's largest project finance bank, provided financing for extractive projects such as mining, logging, and oil exploration. Some of these projects took place in developing countries and in rainforests and other endangered ecosystems. In 2000, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) launched its Global Finance Campaign with Citigroup as the target. The goal was to convince Citigroup, and eventually all lenders, to stop financing destructive activities in endangered ecosystems... Read More >> <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/cases/cases_show.htm?doc_id%3d286081%26enews%3d1');>
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BP and Corporate Greenwash <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/cases/cases_show.htm?doc_id%3d291859%26enews%3d1');>
Author: Sider, Michael
Company: British Petroleum Amoco
Bp's green re-branding efforts began officially with the unveiling of its new bp Helios mark, named after the Greek sun god. However, environmental groups heaped scorn on bp's green re-branding. Greenpeace gave the company its Greenhouse Greenwash Award, given to the largest "corporate climate culprit" on earth. Read More >> <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/cases/cases_show.htm?doc_id%3d291859%26enews%3d1');>
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Call For Papers <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/commentary/commentary_show.htm?doc_id%3d326436%26enews%3d1');>
Hosted by London Business School
Author: “Corporate Responsibility and Global Business: Implications for Corporate and Marketing Strategy”
London Business School is pleased to invite submissions to the third in a series of international corporate responsibility conferences (following the Haas conference in 2005 and the Boston University conference in 2003). Topics for inclusion again range widely. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the implications of corporate responsibility, globalisation and global business for business and marketing strategy. Research papers can be either empirical or conceptual. A selection of papers presented will be considered for a special issue of the California Management Review. Proposal submission deadline (1-page abstracts) is December 31st, 2005. Read More >> <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/commentary/commentary_show.htm?doc_id%3d326436%26enews%3d1');>
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Teaching Business Ethics Conference 2006 <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/commentary/commentary_show.htm?doc_id%3d327353%26enews%3d1');>
June 7-9, 2006, St. Julien Hotel, Boulder, Colorado
Whether you are new to teaching business ethics or already have considerable experience, this conference will give you the background and practical techniques to improve your teaching... Read More >> <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/commentary/commentary_show.htm?doc_id%3d327353%26enews%3d1');>
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Globalisation's strange bedfellows <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/references/references_show.htm?doc_id%3d327349%26enews%3d1');>
Author: Maitland, Alison
[ Magazine / Newspaper Articles ] Unilever, in a groundbreaking project with Oxfam, sets out to explore the fraught question: does international business investment help or hinder the fight against poverty? Read More >> <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/references/references_show.htm?doc_id%3d327349%26enews%3d1');>
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New Surveys Show That Big Business Has a P.R. Problem <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/references/references_show.htm?doc_id%3d328471%26enews%3d1');>
Author: Deutsch, Claudia H.
[ Magazine / Newspaper Articles ] More than ever, Americans do not trust business or the people who run it. Read More >> <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/references/references_show.htm?doc_id%3d328471%26enews%3d1');>
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Blue Ocean Strategy <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/references/references_show.htm?doc_id%3d327348%26enews%3d1');>
How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
Author: Kim, W. Chan & Renée Mauborgne
[ Books / Book Chapters ] Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any company can use to create and capture blue oceans. A landmark work that upends traditional thinking about strategy, this book charts a bold new path to winning the future... Read More >> <javascript:ol('http://www.caseplace.org/references/references_show.htm?doc_id%3d327348%26enews%3d1');>
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