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Good Ventures: The Power of Informed Decisions
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Sarah MurrayCase SGSB-SI124-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn 2010, Cari Tuna quit her job at the Wall Street Journal to work full-time on developing a giving strategy for herself and her husband—Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. In May 2011, the couple created the philanthropic foundation Good Ventures. Tuna made transparency and knowledge sharing core components of the foundation; creating a blog to report on the foundation’s activities and learnings. Good Ventures co-funded projects so that the...Starting at €8.20
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Palantir Philanthropy Engineering: Software to Improve Lives
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Sarah MurrayCase SGSB-SI125-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeBy 2014, Palantir Technologies, a fast growing Silicon Valley company with global impact at the heart of its mission, had spent several years donating the same software to nonprofits that it sold to commercial customers to help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. It had consolidated these philanthropic activities in 2011, when Jason Payne, a long-time software engineer at the company, made an internal transition to found the compan...Starting at €8.20
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The Nut Behind the Wheel' to "Moral Machines:' A Brief History of Auto Safety
Neil Malhotra, Ken Shotts, Sheila MelvinCase SGSB-ETH4-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityDriverless cars – once the stuff of science fiction – are fast becoming reality. Indeed, some automotive companies have said they expect to sell autonomous vehicles to the public by 2020. The advent of such self-driving vehicles raises numerous ethical and legal questions that will need to be addressed before such cars can hit the road in significant numbers. This case traces the history and evolution of auto safety in the United States, beginn...Starting at €8.20
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Two Miscellaneous Vignettes
Grousbeck, H. I.; Tauber, Alexander; Zambricki, Elizabeth A.Case SGSB-ETH-14-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis case uses two vignettes to illustrate ethical questions that may occur at hospitals. In the first, 89-year old widow Theresa Addison is faced with the challenge of finding a facility that will care for her 47 year old son on a long term basis. Her son had been born with cerebral palsy, and facilities had deemed his situation futile. In the second vignette, hospital staff missed a key indicator during a newborn’s first baby wellness check, re...Starting at €8.20
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Una cuestión de principios
Rosanas Martí, Josep MariaArticle ART-1599Accounting and Control, Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityLa pérdida de la confianza, tanto entre las personas como entre éstas y las empresas e instituciones, es una de las causas de la crisis actual. El autor considera que el secreto para salir de la crisis es recuperar la confianza y, por tanto, comprender sus fundamentos. Según su análisis, la confianza es un bien que tiene un valor real, práctico, económico, que aumenta la eficiencia del sistema y posibilita la creación de otros bienes y valores. F...Starting at €8.20
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Give Your Workers Something to Smile About
Frey, Bruno S.Article ART-1649-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, Leadership and People ManagementEconomics is undergoing a remarkable new development, which may even be called revolutionary. This development is likely to change economics substantially in the future. New insights from happiness research are slowly being accepted in standard economics, a field which is traditionally conservative. If the goal of most human beings is to be happy, then a fuller understanding of which factors contribute to well-being is critical, especially if rec...Starting at €8.20
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Supere las contradicciones de las redes en clave ética
Vaccaro, AntoninoArticle ART-1969Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityInternet ha hecho que la adquisición, almacenamiento y transmisión de datos por parte de las empresas sea más fácil que nunca. Pero esta mejora en velocidad y eficiencia viene acompañada de expectativas más complejas y en ocasiones contradictorias sobre cómo se debe recabar, conservar y revelar dicha información. Consumidores, empleados y otros grupos de interés tienen a su alcance y comparten todo tipo de información relativa a hábitos, preferen...Starting at €8.20
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Ethics Hold the Key to Network Contradictions
Vaccaro, AntoninoArticle ART-1969-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityToday's Internet-based world has certainly made it easier for companies to acquire, store and transmit detailed information like never before. But with these gains in speed and efficiency have come more complex, and sometimes contradictory, expectations about how companies should collect, retain and disclose that information. Consumers, employees and other stakeholders are accessing and exchanging all manner of information related to individual h...Starting at €8.20
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Manifiesto por una gestión empresarial más humana
Andreu Civit, Rafael; Rosanas Martí, Josep MariaArticle ART-2127Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, StrategyLa credibilidad de la empresa como institución está en mínimos históricos. La mayoría de las medidas prescritas no hacen sino pasar de puntillas por los problemas. Lo que se necesita realmente es una vuelta radical a los fundamentos de la dirección de empresas y de nuestros modelos económicos actuales. En este artículo los autores repasan las teorías y prácticas que nos han llevado hasta aquí y proponen siete pilares para avanzar hacia una gestió...Starting at €8.20
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Writing a Manifesto for Better Management
Andreu Civit, Rafael; Rosanas Martí, Josep MariaArticle ART-2127-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, StrategyThe litany of institutional, market and leadership failures that precipitated one of the worst economic crises in modern history is staggering. Yet efforts by policy makers and business leaders to improve matters have so far fallen short of whats truly needed, and do little but tinker at the very edges of the economic system. This article makes seven key recommendations to move us toward a more humanistic model of management, placing human value...Starting at €8.20