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Genzyme Center (C)
Toffel, Michael W.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-610010-EService and Operations ManagementGenzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green building rating scheme, the CEO charged the building team with exploring opportunities that would enable the building to earn the highest rating, LEED Platinum. Five additional green bui...Starting at €5.74
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Guidant Corporation (A, B and C) - Teaching Note: Don't Get a Heart Attack! Dificult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-2-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeTeaching Note for Guidant Corporatiion (A), (B), (C): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm.Starting at €0.00
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Guidant Corporation (C): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-171-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation is an high tech star up. After a couple of years of activities, it launches new high tech products such as pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, etc. After some time Guidant's top management discovers that one of its products, implanted in 24.000 patients, has a serious defect. After the death of a patient due to the fault of a Guidant's product, the firm enter into fire. Case C provides the epilogue of the long crisis.Starting at €5.74
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Aspen Skiing Company (C)
Toffel, Michael W.; van Sice, StephanieCase HBS-611018-EEconomicsHaving begun improving the environmental performance of its own operations, Aspen Skiing Company is considering "greening" its supply chain and lobbying for greenhouse gas regulations. A world renowned ski resort vulnerable to global climate change, Aspen's activities often garner media attention, which can promote its causes. But these initiatives, which attempt to compel other firms to improve their environmental performance, risk a public rela...Starting at €5.74
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Genzyme Center (A), (B) & (C), Teaching Note
Toffel, Michael W.Teaching Note HBS-610011-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for [610008], [610009]. and [610010].Starting at €0.00
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Kiva (A, B and C) - Teaching Note
Vaccaro, AntoninoTeaching Note BET-11-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva is a 501(3) nonprofit organization founded in the late 2004 by two Stanford graduate, Matt Flannery and his wife Jessica Jackley. Inspired by a lecture of the Nobel prize Muhammad Yunus, Matt and Jessica decided to use their spare time to create a micro-lending organization capable to leverage the potential of internet-based technologies. The original idea associated with KIVA business model is pretty simple: small entrepreneurs located in ...Starting at €0.00
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Guidant Corporation (C): "¡No sufras un ataque al corazón!": decisiones difíciles en una empresa líder en la fabricación de marcapasos
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-171Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation es una startup de alta tecnología que, tras un par de años de actividad, lanza productos nuevos, como marcapasos, desfibriladores implantables, etc. Después de un tiempo, la dirección de Guidant descubre que uno de sus productos, implantado en 24.000 pacientes, presenta graves defectos. Tras la muerte de un paciente por el fallo de un producto Guidant, la empresa se encuentra en una situación peligrosa, por lo que el caso C of...Starting at €5.74
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Kiva (C): Responses to a legitimacy threat
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-185-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva is a nonprofit organization founded in late 2004 by two Stanford graduates, Matt Flannery and his wife Jessica Jackley. Inspired by a lecture given by the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, Matt and Jessica decided to use their spare time to create a micro-lending organization capable of leveraging the potential of Internet-based technologies. The original idea associated with KIVA's business model is pretty simple: small entrepreneurs in emergi...Starting at €5.74
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Kiva (C): Respuestas a las críticas sobre su legitimidad
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-185Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityKiva es una organización sin ánimo de lucro regulada por el artículo 501(3) del Código Tributario Interno (Internal Revenue Code, IRC) y fundada en 2004 por Matt Flannery y su esposa, Jessica Jackley, dos graduados de Stanford. Matt y Jessica, inspirados por una charla del premio nobel de la paz Muhammad Yunus, decidieron usar su tiempo libre para crear una organización dedicada a los microcréditos capaz de aprovechar el potencial de las tecnolog...Starting at €5.74
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Aspen Skiing Company (A), (B), (C), and (D), Teaching Note
Toffel, Michael W.; van Sice, StephanieTeaching Note HBS-611020-EEconomicsTeaching Note for 611002, 611003, 611018, and 611019. Associated with Video Supplement 615704 and PowerPoint Supplement 615042.Starting at €0.00