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Untapping Innovation
IESE InsightArticle ART-2795-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeWhy do some innovations take off, while others languish? "Things cannot happen before their time," cautions Igal Aisenberg, a dairy farmer turned agricultural businessman who worked for Netafim, maker of drip irrigation systems. In this article he discusses the conflux of conditions that leads to the adoption of disruptive technology, and he underscores the importance of a business having social ends.Starting at €8.20
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Gestionando el entorno social: el proyecto Sedapal Lote 7 de Graña y Montero (GYM)
Costa, Karol; Lambruschini Nicoletta; Miranda, Gino; Fontana, AlejandroCase PAD-DG-C-684Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityLa empresa debe desarrollar un proyecto de agua y alcantarillado en una zona marginal de la ciudad de Lima (Perú). El contexto social es complejo por la presencia de diversos grupos delincuentes que extorsionan a las empresas que operan en la localidad. El caso recoge un modelo de cómo enfrentar con éxito este tipo de amenazas sociales. El proyecto se concluyó dentro del presupuesto previsto y en el plazo establecido.Starting at €8.20
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Tomasso Corporation: Including Spirituality in the Organizational Culture (B)
Corrales A.; Melé, DomènecCase BE-155-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementThis case follows on from case A, and begins with Rob McKenzie's decision to fire the 11 recalcitrant staff, and shows how he does this in accord with the spiritual and humanistic values outlined in "Our Project". It then goes on to show how he gradually introduced the company's guiding values to all aspects of its daily management.Starting at €5.74
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Tomasso Corporation: Incorporando espiritualidad en la cultura empresarial (A)
Corrales A.; Melé, DomènecCase BE-154Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementEl director ejecutivo y propietario único de la compañía considera la empresa como apoyada en dos columnas, una edificada con aspectos económicos y otra con aspectos humanos. Ambas columnas están en continua tensión pero se equilibran, a modo de piedra angular, por fuerzas interiores que hay que buscar en la trascendencia. Esta piedra angular tiene que dar lugar a decisiones armónicas, justas y humanas, sin olvidar la necesidad primaria de obten...Starting at €8.20
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Banking on Sustainability (Spanish version)
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Reisen de Pinho, RicardoCase HBS-311S04Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityABN AMRO REAL made corporate social responsibility central to its brand, adding to customer focus and reflecting its values. Leaders developed the Bank of Value theme and implemented it through activities such as microfinance in poor communities, environmentally oriented lending products, socio-environmental screening of customers and suppliers, employee diversity, and reduction of waste and recycling. Now the fourth largest private bank in Brazi...Starting at €8.20
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Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Quinn, TomCase HBS-324007-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAs autonomy became a more significant part of modern life - most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas - ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less often than human-driven cars, making their adoption a net positive in terms of lives saved; deontologists worried about the implications of programming a car to swerve to kill its pass...Starting at €8.20
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IESE Insight. Número 13. Segundo trimestre 2012
IESE InsightMagazine REV-31Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, Leadership and People Management, StrategyLa credibilidad de la empresa y otras instituciones está en mínimos históricos. Ante esta realidad, el dossier del número 13 de la revista IESE Insight plantea la necesidad de un golpe de timón humanista como el mejor camino para que los negocios vuelvan a funcionar. Los profesores del IESE Rafael Andreu y Josep Maria Rosanas repasan los planteamientos que nos han llevado hasta aquí y proponen siete pilares para situar de nuevo los valore...Starting at €22.00
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Asociación Peruana de Avicultura (APA): el cambio de paradigma
Fontana, AlejandroCase PAD-DG-C-646Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAl ser consciente del impacto en la calidad de la alimentación de la población, la asociación peruana de empresas avícolas cambia su estrategia de acción. Al enfocarse en diminuir su principal sobrecosto, descubre que esto no lo podrá alcanzar mientras no actúe coordinadamente con la oficina de la administración pública encargada del control sanitario. El trabajo gremial y esta cooperación con la administración pública permiten mejorar la product...Starting at €8.20
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Tomasso Corporation: Including Spirituality in the Organizational Culture (A)
Corrales A.; Melé, DomènecCase BE-154-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementThis case traces the history of Tomasso Corp: Starting as a small, family-run business in Montreal, it was always run in a "family way", with close and easy relations between the workforce and the owners. On expanding, in the 1980s, ownership was transferred to another corporation, and the increased workforce, combined with more rational management techniques, soon led to a breakdown in relations between management and the workforce. With the dep...Starting at €8.20
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Climate Business/Business Climate (Spanish version)
Porter, Michael E.; Reinhardt, Forest L.; Schwartz, Peter; Esty, Daniel C.; Slater, Alyson; Bortz, Christina; Hoffman, Andrew J.; Schendler, Auden; Bakhshi, Vicki; Krajeski, Alexis; Roosevelt, Theodore; Llewellyn, John; Correa, Maria Emilia; Way, Mark; Rendlen, BrittaArticle HBS-F0710ABusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityClimate change will affect everything businesses do, as government efforts to mitigate carbon emissions cause their prices to rise steeply. This special edition of Forethought takes a hard-nosed look at the risks and opportunities of climate change. Michael E. Porter and Forest L. Reinhardt argue that the effects of climate change on companies' operations are now so tangible and certain that the issue is best addressed with the tools of the strat...Starting at €8.20