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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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Started as Crew (C): McDonald's Strategy for Corporate Success and Poverty Reduction
Werhane, Patricia H.; Wolfe, Regina; Hartman, Laura P.; Sheehan, Justin; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0310-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityFrom the early 1970s to the beginning of the 21st century, multinational corporations (MNCs) had increasingly participated in the reduction of poverty as part of their business strategies. Such participation reflected an increasing awareness of the widening gap between rich and poor across the globe. McDonald’s Corporation, despite myriad criticisms directed at it about dead-end jobs and the detrimental effects of fast food, had defied norms, how...Starting at €5.74
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Bal Vikas Bank: Children as Bankers
Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0377-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn early 2001, Rita Panicker, founder and director of an Indian NGO called Butterflies, was determined to find additional ways to help the many homeless children who worked and slept on the streets of India. Butterflies had put in place a variety of programs, but there was one area that Panicker, Butterflies, and other NGOs had not addressed: the children’s finances. Over the course of the next few years, she helped found the Children’s Developme...Starting at €8.20
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Davis Press: Should You Publish Meccan Madness
Freeman, R. Edward; Werhane, Patricia H.; Wicks, Andrew C.; Mead, Jenny; Berne, Rosalyn W.; Bassit, Taha; Jilani, AhsunCase DARDEN-E-0421-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityYou are the owner/editor of your own publishing firm, Davis Press. You encounter a dilemma when, in 2010, you are given the opportunity to publish a novel set in the Islamic holy city of Mecca. Given the angry fallout after the publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, the Iraq War, and the controversy of Qur’an desecration at the US naval base prison at Guantanamo Bay, publishing the novel presents a host of ethical dilemmas. This ca...Starting at €8.20
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Abbott and the AIDS Crisis (A)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0311-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn 1999, the 20-year-old AIDS crisis had ravaged many developing countries and, in particular, on the continent of Africa. Of the estimated 33.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide in 1998, almost two-thirds (22 million) were in sub-Saharan Africa, considered the “global epicenter” of the disease. Already 12 million had died, and life expectancy in the region plummeted from 62 years to 47. Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories had responded...Starting at €8.20
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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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Abbott and the AIDS Crisis (C): What Lies Ahead?
Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0313-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe partnership between Abbott and the government of Tanzania continued to flourish. As a demonstration of Abbott’s long-term commitment to Tanzania, in 2007, the Abbott Fund opened its first office outside Abbott headquarters in Illinois. The new office in Dar es Salaam, led by Divisional Vice President Christy Wistar, oversaw the expanding number of philanthropic projects in Tanzania. In June 2007, Abbott CEO Miles White returned to Tanzania fo...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