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Procter & Gamble: Children's Safe Drinking Water (A)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Hartman, Laura P.; Sheehan, Justin; Mead, JennyCaso DARDEN-E-0314-EÉtica empresarial y Responsabilidad Social CorporativaIn 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...Desde 8,20 €
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Procter & Gamble: Children's Safe Drinking Water (B)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Hartman, Laura P.; Sheehan, Justin; Mead, JennyCaso DARDEN-E-0315-EÉtica empresarial y Responsabilidad Social CorporativaIn 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 ...Desde 5,74 €
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Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Glaser, John P.; Halvorson, George C.; Ford, Monte; Heffner, Randy; Kastor, John A.Artículo HBS-R0707A-EServicios y operacionesPeachtree Healthcare has major IT infrastructure problems, and CEO Max Berndt is struggling to find the right fix. He can go with a single set of systems and applications that will provide consistency across Peachtree's facilities but may not give doctors enough flexibility. Or he can choose service-oriented architecture (SOA), a modular design that will allow Peachtree to standardize incrementally and selectively but poses certain risks as a new...Desde 8,20 €
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Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve (HBR Case Commentary)
Glaser, John P.; Halvorson, George C.; Ford, Monte; Heffner, Randy; Kastor, John A.Artículo HBS-R0707Z-EServicios y operacionesPeachtree Healthcare has major IT infrastructure problems, and CEO Max Berndt is struggling to find the right fix. He can go with a single set of systems and applications that will provide consistency across Peachtree's facilities but may not give doctors enough flexibility. Or he can choose service-oriented architecture (SOA), a modular design that will allow Peachtree to standardize incrementally and selectively but poses certain risks as a new...Desde 8,20 €
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El caso HBR: Un sistema de TI demasiado vanguardista
Glaser, John P.; Halvorson, George C.; Ford, Monte; Heffner, Randy; Kastor, John A.Artículo HBS-R0707AServicios y operacionesPeachtree Healthcare tiene grandes problemas de infraestructura de TI, y CEO Max Berndt está luchando para encontrar la solución correcta. Se puede ir con un único conjunto de sistemas y aplicaciones que proporcionan consistencia a través de las instalaciones de Peachtree, pero no puede dar a los médicos la flexibilidad suficiente. O puede elegir la arquitectura orientada al servicio (SOA), un diseño modular que permitirá la estandarización de Pe...Desde 8,20 €
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BHP Billiton and Mozal (A)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Hartman, Laura P.; Mead, JennyCaso DARDEN-E-0316-EÉtica empresarial y Responsabilidad Social CorporativaBHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resource company at the start of the 21st century, began a feasibility study in 1995 for building an aluminum smelter project in the Maputo province in southern Mozambique - one of the world’s poorest countries that was hampered by fragile legal, financial, and health, safety, environmental, and community institutional structures and capacity. BHP Billiton was committed to sustainable development and ...Desde 8,20 €
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BHP Billiton and Mozal (B)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Hartman, Laura P.; Mead, JennyCaso DARDEN-E-0317-EÉtica empresarial y Responsabilidad Social CorporativaBHP Billiton began construction of Phase 1 of the Mozal aluminum smelter in 1998. Because of the challenges that the community presented, BHP Billiton and its partners created the Mozal Community Development Trust (MCDT), which worked to improve the infrastructure, social services, and health care of the community. During the two construction phases, the project contributed more than USD160 million to the local economy, principally through the em...Desde 5,74 €
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Transformational Gaming: Zynga's Social Strategy (A)
Werhane, Patricia H.; Mead, Jenny; Hartman, Laura P.; Christmas, DanielleCaso DARDEN-E-0360-EÉtica empresarial y Responsabilidad Social CorporativaIn January 2009, Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of the immensely popular and successful Zynga Game Network met with his sister Laura Hartman, DePaul University business ethics professor, to discuss building a new brand of corporate social strategy. Pincus wanted to find a way that Zynga could have a greater social impact on the world. He and Hartman talked about creating a new social strategy that would naturally flow out of Zynga’s success in deve...Desde 8,20 €
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Started as Crew (B): Darlene Calhoun and McDonald's
Werhane, Patricia H.; Hartman, Laura P.; Sheehan, Justin; Mead, JennyCaso DARDEN-E-0309-EÉtica empresarial y Responsabilidad Social CorporativaMcDonald’s Corporation, the behemoth of the fast food industry, has taken its share of criticism - even ridicule - over the years. The image of the company suffered as the public began to perceive its jobs as dead-end, unskilled, and unstimulating. The term “McJob,” coined by an author in 1991, was slang for a low-paying job that required little skill and provided little opportunity for advancement. But in many ways, McDonald’s Corporation defied...Desde 5,74 €
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Started as Crew (A): Jan Fields and McDonald's
Werhane, Patricia H.; Hartman, Laura P.; Sheehan, Justin; Mead, JennyCaso DARDEN-E-0308-EÉtica empresarial y Responsabilidad Social CorporativaMcDonald’s Corporation, the behemoth of the fast food industry, has taken its share of criticism - even ridicule - over the years. The image of the company suffered as the public began to perceive its jobs as dead-end, unskilled, and unstimulating. The term “McJob,” coined by an author in 1991, was slang for a low-paying job that required little skill and provided little opportunity for advancement. But in many ways, McDonald’s Corporation defied...Desde 8,20 €