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Overcoming Political Opposition: Compressed Natural Gas Mandates in Delhi - Teaching note
Jha, S,Teaching Note SGSB-P79TN-EEconomicsIn 1985, M.C. Mehta, a lawyer and head of his own environmental NGO, filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court of India to enforce the 1981 Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act in the environs of India’s National Capital Region (NCR). In 1988, World Bank experts had advised the Indian government that given the extent to which air pollution in the National Capital Region came from an increasingly large fleet of passeng...Starting at €0.00
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Overcoming Political Opposition: Compressed Natural Gas Mandates in Delhi (A)
Jha, S,Case SGSB-P79A-EEconomicsIn 1985, M.C. Mehta, a lawyer and head of his own environmental NGO, filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court of India to enforce the 1981 Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act in the environs of India’s National Capital Region (NCR). In 1988, World Bank experts had advised the Indian government that given the extent to which air pollution in the National Capital Region came from an increasingly large fleet of passeng...Starting at €8.20
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Sustainable Conservation - Teaching Note
Siegelman, R; Rosenthal, STeaching Note SGSB-E437TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe Sustainable Conservation case presents the story of San Francisco-based nonprofit that was founded to solve environmental problems in California through collaborative partnerships between the public and private sector. The nonprofit had built up strong expertise in the agriculture industry, with an early focus on the issues associated with water quality, air pollution, and land use. With a clear track record and a strong team in place, b...Starting at €0.00
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Sustainable Conservation
Siegelman, R; Rosenthal, SCase SGSB-E437-EEntrepreneurshipThe Sustainable Conservation case presents the story of San Francisco-based nonprofit that was founded to solve environmental problems in California through collaborative partnerships between the public and private sector. The nonprofit had built up strong expertise in the agriculture industry, with an early focus on the issues associated with water quality, air pollution, and land use. With a clear track record and a strong team in place, b...Starting at €8.20
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Fiddler Livestock Company
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Antonacci, Claudia; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0379-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityA ranching family, owner of the Fiddler Livestock Company, faces an important decision. A loan was coming due and to convince the banks to refinance the loan, the family needed to bring in substantially more money, and quickly. Its revenue-increasing options included opening an endangered species reserve, leasing ranch land for oil drilling, or expanding livestock production. The fate of the ranch and its operations moving forward rested in the h...Starting at €8.20
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Rio Tinto and the Resolution Copper Mining Joint Venture (C): Planning in the Global Financial Crisis
Werhane, Patricia H.; Gorman, Michael E.; Mead, Jenny; Starr, JustinCase DARDEN-E-0375-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityWhen the global recession of 2008–09 hit, Rio Tinto was forced to reexamine its spending priorities. Knowing that the availability of investment capital along with commodity prices would eventually rebound and that project delays could have a negative impact on net present value, David Salisbury and his team were faced with the additional challenge of prioritizing the various aspects of the RCM project. These fell into several categories: (1) rec...Starting at €5.74
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Rio Tinto and the Resolution Copper Mining Joint Venture (A): The Land Exchange
Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, Jenny; Gorman, Michael E.; Starr, JustinCase DARDEN-E-0373-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityFrom its inception, the Resolution Copper Mining (RCM) joint venture faced a number of significant technical, political, and environmental challenges as it attempted to develop a strategy for mining a copper ore body located under the Tonto National Forest in Superior, Arizona. As president and CEO of RCM, David Salisbury faced a number of key decisions in 2008–10 to keep the project on track. The success of the mine hinged on a politically compl...Starting at €8.20
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Rio Tinto and the Resolution Copper Mining Joint Venture (B): Dewatering the Magma Mine
Werhane, Patricia H.; Gorman, Michael E.; Mead, Jenny; Starr, JustinCase DARDEN-E-0374-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityTo dewater the former Magma Mine and sink the exploratory shaft, the RCM team was faced with extracting and managing about 2 billion gallons of naturally accumulated water as well as about 300 million gallons per year of new inflow. The team’s goals were to accomplish the dewatering safely, in a quick and economically feasible way, while also protecting the environment and managing the interests of local stakeholders. The team had four options to...Starting at €5.74
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Albina Ruiz and "Healthy City"
Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0384-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIndustrial engineering student Albina Ruiz was disturbed by the trash she saw around her in Lima, Peru. It was the late 1980s, and uncollected trash was a huge problem for many of the poorer urban areas, creating health problems and contaminating the city's water supply. Foul odors and toxic fumes emanated from the piles of trash, which were breeding grounds for rats and diseases such as cholera. Determined to address the problem, Ruiz establishe...Starting at €8.20
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Randall Krantz (A): Transitioning a Career
Innes, Rosie; Miller, PaddyCase DPO-262-ELeadership and People ManagementRandall Krantz sets out to transition his career out of engineering and into an environmental NGO. The case outlines Krantz' career before taking on the MBA, his refocusing and his strategy for finding the job he feels he needs. The path leads him to dead ends, but eventually he finds something that might fit.Starting at €8.20