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Waste Concern: Turning a Problem into a Resource - Teaching Note
Mitchell, Jordan; Mair, JohannaTeaching Note DGT-51-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyNote prepared as an aid to instructors in the classroom use of case DG-1502-E: Waste Concern: Turning a problem into a resource.Starting at €0.00
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Procter & Gamble: Children's Safe Drinking Water (B)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Hartman, Laura P.; Sheehan, Justin; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0315-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn 1999, P&G purchased - through the acquisition of Recovery Engineering in a $265 million deal - PUR Water Filtration System, a point-of-use water filtration system. The PUR water filtration system used a combination of the flocculant iron sulfate, an agent that caused particles suspended in water to bind and form sediment, and calcium hypochlorite (chlorine), a disinfectant. After acquiring the product, P&G began to develop and expand it. With ...Starting at €5.74
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Procter & Gamble: Children's Safe Drinking Water (A)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Hartman, Laura P.; Sheehan, Justin; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0314-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn 1995, Procter & Gamble (P&G) scientists began researching methods of water treatment for use in communities facing water crises. P&G, one of the world’s largest consumer products companies, was interested in bringing industrial-quality water treatment to remote areas worldwide, because the lack of clean water, primarily in developing countries, was alarming. In the latter half of the 1990s, approximately 1.1 billion (out of a worldwide populat...Starting at €8.20
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Biofuels: the Green Dream
Faces, Fernando; Ocaña Derqui, GloriaCase IIST-ASEI-5-E-EEconomicsProfessor Manuel Ribera was asked by the Instituto Internacional San Telmo to prepare a document on the Biofuels sector, to serve as a basis for debate in a meeting to be held with entrepreneurs and CEOs from various sectors which have been affected by the arrival of the new green energy. After analysing the available documentation and interviewing the major figures in the sectors concerned (public administration, university specialists, business...Starting at €8.20
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Great Lakes: Great Decisions (A)
Freeland, James R.; Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0325-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityOne of the few remaining producers of lead additives must decide whether to continue producing them for use abroad. Banned in the United States, lead additives were still legal in developing nations. Ellie Shannon, the division manager overseeing bromine production for the Indiana-based Great Lakes Chemical Corporation (Great Lakes), must advise Great Lakes' directors on whether the company should 1) continue production for the foreseeable future...Starting at €8.20
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Corporate Greenhouse Gas Accounting: Carbon Footprint Analysis
Larson, Andrea; Teichman, WilliamTechnical Note DARDEN-ENT-0113-EEntrepreneurshipStakeholder climate change actions worldwide have prompted companies to measure their greenhouse gas emissions and reduce their carbon footprints by decreasing energy and fuel use. In the process, they are cutting costs, decreasing exposure to severe weather, reducing energy vulnerability, and potentially opening up revenue sources for carbon credit sales in the emerging markets for carbon trading. This note is effective in MBA, undergraduate and...Starting at €8.20
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FIJI Water and Corporate Social Responsibility - Green Makeover or Greenwashing
James McMaster; Jan NowakCase IVEY-9B09A008-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyThis case analysis traces the establishment and subsequent operation of FIJI Water LLC and its bottling subsidiary, Natural Waters of Viti Limited, the first company in Fiji extracting, bottling and marketing, both domestically and internationally, artesian water coming from a virgin ecosystem found on Fiji's main island of Viti Levu. The case reviews the growth and market expansion of this highly successful company with the brand name FIJI Natur...Starting at €8.20
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Scandinavian Airlines: The Green Engine Decision
Jennifer LynesCase IVEY-9B09M028-ELeadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyScandinavian Airlines (SAS) is an innovator of strategic environmental management in the airline industry. Being a first-mover can have both its advantages and disadvantages. This case looks at the airline's decision of whether they should invest in the best available environmental technology for a fleet of new aircraft that would serve them for the next 25 years. While the technology for these low-emission engines had been around since the 1970s...Starting at €8.20
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Storm Gudrun: Managing a Crisis
Helgesson, Karin Svedberg; Nyberg, Anna; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-OB-0991-ELeadership and People ManagementA brutal winter storm hits the Baltic Sea region, felling 200 million trees and leaving forest owners and lumber industry competitors devastated. The chairman and majority owner of a large private timber mill in Sweden needs an action plan to pull through the disaster quickly—before the felled timber rots. Will they be able to rescue the timber? How shall his business react to the sudden oversupply? How will the exponentially increased supply be ...Starting at €8.20
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Sustainability and Innovation: Frameworks, Concepts, and Tools for Product and Strategy Redesign
Larson, AndreaTechnical Note DARDEN-ENT-0138-EEntrepreneurshipThis technical note introduces the concepts and terms entrepreneurial innovators use in addressing sustainability. It explores the evolution of such terms as sustainable development, environmental justice, earth systems engineering, sustainable science, the Natural Step framework, industrial ecology, and biomimicry. It also explores how paradigms are created and replaced.Starting at €8.20