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The Myth of Sustainable Fashion
Global Business Digital ArticleDespite high-profile attempts at innovation, the industry has failed to reduce its environmental impact so far. -
Creating Shared Value
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe capitalist system is under siege. Recently business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies... -
The High Cost of Neglecting Low-Wage Workers
Business management SpotlightSix mistakes that companies make—and how they can do better -
The Case for Investing in Digital Public Infrastructure
Business and society Digital ArticleHow businesses and governments can work together to build digital foundations that benefit everyone. -
Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility"... -
The 8 Responsibilities of Chief Sustainability Officers
Business and society Digital ArticleVisualizing this complex — and increasingly common — executive role. -
How the Carl Icahns of the World Benefit Firms but Not Workers
Financial markets Digital ArticleResearch reveals how activist investors help and hurt. -
Innovating by Making the World a Better Place
Innovation Digital ArticleMaggie Brenneke, director of the Skoll Social Enterprise Program at SustainAbility. When businesses consider their social and environmental bottom lines, they identify new opportunities to innovate. Some of those opportunities can be surprising! -
The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming
National competitiveness Digital ArticleIt’s a resurgence other countries should understand before copying. -
Should Nonprofits Seek Profits?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTwenty years ago, it would have been shocking for a children's choir to sell singing telegrams or for an organization serving the homeless to dabble in... -
How Low and Middle-Income Countries Are Innovating to Combat Covid
Global Business Digital ArticleSeven lessons for innovators everywhere. -
Audacious Philanthropy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePrivate philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally.... -
A Bretton Woods for the 21st Century
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleIf you are the leader of a large organization (or only of yourself) who cares about improving the world, here’s a question you should consider: How will you participate in the global solution networks that are increasingly managing to address the world’s problems? A global solution network is a group of independent parties that have […] -
Why Job Postings Don’t Equal Jobs
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The Countries Most (and Least) Likely to be Affected by Automation
Labor ResearchWhat percent of tasks in your country could be done by machines? -
Research: When a Higher Minimum Wage Leads to Lower Compensation
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA recent study found that one retailer slashed hours, scrambled schedules, and cut benefits after a minimum wage hike. -
Don’t Assume the Shoe Fits
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleMost businesspeople will serve on the board of a nonprofit organization at some point. But the governance of nonprofits can differ dramatically from the governance of businesses. Even the best intentions can prove disastrous when new board members fail to understand that their traditional business experience can carry them only so far. -
Teaching Sales
Social enterprise Magazine ArticleGreat sales professionals are scarce and getting scarcer. Why aren’t universities working harder to create more? -
Why the U.S. Decided That Managers Deserve Overtime Too
Global Business Digital ArticlePutting a price on our time is a good thing. -
Look to Government—Yes, Government—for New Social Innovations
Government Digital ArticleA sample of pilot programs from around the world.
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Manan Publishing: Raising Funds for Not-for-profit
Management Case Study8.95View Details Subir Shukla, the Principal Coordinator in Ignus Pahal, was involved in improving education for marginalized children. After working for many years at... -
OneTen: One Million Careers for Black Talent (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details The OneTen case study examines the nonprofit organization's origin story. Its founding team includes a roster of corporate superstars-Ken Chenault (former... -
Guild Education: Unlocking Opportunity for America's Workforce
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2015, Guild Education is an education marketplace that connects employers and universities to provide employees with 'education as a benefit.'... -
National Parks Conservation Association
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The National Parks Conservation Association seeks to help the U.S. National Park Service increase its efficiency by incorporating principles of business... -
Battling Dirty Toilets: Singapore's Final Frontiers
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case, set in June 2018, chronicles the challenges that Jack Sim, self-made millionaire and founder of the World Toilet Organisation (WTO), encountered... -
Jieliang Phone Home! (A)
Organizational Development Case Study14.00View Details At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators-bright and capable young men and (mostly) women... -
BMVSS: Changing Lives, One Jaipur Limb at a Time
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayta Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them... -
Cost Plus Drugs
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In September 2022, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company CEO Alex Oshmyansky considered the future of the company. Cost Plus Drugs was a retailer for more... -
No Longer Left on the Shelf: How Savour! Made Yet-to-be-Sold F&B Products an Attractive Proposition
Management Case Study8.95View Details Singapore-based tech social enterprise Savour! seeks to make procurement smoother and more productive by linking up suppliers like merchants with less... -
Shorefast: A Strange and Familiar Way to Reimagine Capitalism
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2006, Zita Cobb and two of her brothers, Alan Cobb and Tony Cobb, native Newfoundlanders, launched Shorefast to help grow another leg of Fogo Island's... -
Competing for Development (B1): The Intermediate Technology Development Group/Practical Action
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details This a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 908M61. The role plays feature additional background,... -
Rotary Cove Beach
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The branch manager of the YMCA Goderich-Huron considers a change in operations for the Rotary Cover Beach property, which has been unprofitable for years.... -
Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management... -
An Heir with No Spare: The Deitch Family Office
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Joe and Matt Deitch, father and son, knew it was time to start their own family office. Matthew had recently joined his father at the family's three enterprises,... -
Wes Hall and the BlackNorth Initiative
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Wes Hall founded Kingsdale Advisors and built it into one of Canada's leading shareholder services and advisory firms. Influenced by the Black Lives Matter... -
Scaling Columba Leadership's Impact
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Rob Taylor, Founding Chairman, and Tracy Hackland, CEO of Columba Leadership, an award-winning South African non-profit organization, pondered a strategic... -
Patagonia: Closing the Loop on Packaging Pollution
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Single-use packaging waste is invading all corners of the world. Wholesale change is urgently needed to create packaging that does not wreak havoc on... -
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods
Strategy & Execution Case Study15.05View Details As of 2005, over 10 million people were using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks to swap music, movies, and software for free. P2P software programs... -
Still Leading (B7): Dr. Evelyn Murphy--The Next Campaign
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes how a former public official became an advocate who started a nonprofit organization after losing her campaign for governor.
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The Myth of Sustainable Fashion
Global Business Digital ArticleDespite high-profile attempts at innovation, the industry has failed to reduce its environmental impact so far. -
Creating Shared Value
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe capitalist system is under siege. Recently business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies... -
The High Cost of Neglecting Low-Wage Workers
Business management SpotlightSix mistakes that companies make—and how they can do better -
The Case for Investing in Digital Public Infrastructure
Business and society Digital ArticleHow businesses and governments can work together to build digital foundations that benefit everyone. -
Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility"... -
The 8 Responsibilities of Chief Sustainability Officers
Business and society Digital ArticleVisualizing this complex — and increasingly common — executive role. -
ESG at WeChat Pay to Support SMEs, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for case HK1361. -
How the Carl Icahns of the World Benefit Firms but Not Workers
Financial markets Digital ArticleResearch reveals how activist investors help and hurt. -
Manan Publishing: Raising Funds for Not-for-profit
Management Case Study8.95View Details Subir Shukla, the Principal Coordinator in Ignus Pahal, was involved in improving education for marginalized children. After working for many years at... -
Alexa: A Pandora's Box of Risks, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note to case KE1143