Idea posted: July 2017
Institutions: George Washington University School of Business FHWien University of Applied Sciences INSEAD
In a seminal 2011 Harvard Business Review article, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer urged companies to abandon the ‘old narrow view of capitalism’ in which the sole purpose of companies…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #663Idea posted: May 2017
Institutions: University of Massachusetts, Boston, College of Management University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Corporate sustainability has become mainstream. Few companies would argue today – as they argued in the past - that the only responsibility companies have to society is to make a…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #650Idea posted: May 2016
Institutions: University of Oxford Cornell University
Most people make moral judgements intuitively: we feel what is right or wrong. For example, imagine a dilemma in which a runaway trolley is racing toward five people, who will…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #607Idea posted: May 2016
Institutions: London Business School University of California, San Diego Kellogg School of Management
The gig economy (‘gigs’: think musicians and bands) — an economy built more than ever before on contract workers and part-timers — is dramatically changing the relationships between employers and…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #605Idea posted: April 2016
Institutions: University of Michigan Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
What is the role of social movements in inspiring or sparking corporate social responsibility? To answer this question, Panayiotis Georgallis of the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #603Idea posted: May 2015
Institutions: Indian School of Business
Both agency theory and stewardship theory help explain organizational dynamics, although starting from very different assumptions. Agency theory describes the relationship between the shareholders (called ‘principals’) and the company’s managers…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #518Idea posted: April 2015
Institutions: University of St. Gallen
While corporations are engaging in socially responsible initiatives related to their industries or to benefit their communities (supporting organizations to help the needy, for example), some companies are going one…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #508Idea posted: April 2015
Institutions: City University of Hong Kong University of Toronto Rotman School of Management Kellogg School of Management
An investigation into the problems of the 1973 Ford Pinto, a car susceptible to catastrophic explosions when rear-ended, revealed that Ford’s engineers had calculated that the company could save $11…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #504Idea posted: February 2015
Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business
In addition to economic and diversity issues, the Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey for the fourth quarter of 2014 focused on the issue of millennials in the workplace.…
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