Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Good Ventures: The Power of Informed Decisions
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Sarah MurrayCase SGSB-SI124-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn 2010, Cari Tuna quit her job at the Wall Street Journal to work full-time on developing a giving strategy for herself and her husband—Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. In May 2011, the couple created the philanthropic foundation Good Ventures. Tuna made transparency and knowledge sharing core components of the foundation; creating a blog to report on the foundation’s activities and learnings. Good Ventures co-funded projects so that the...Starting at €8.20
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Palantir Philanthropy Engineering: Software to Improve Lives
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Sarah MurrayCase SGSB-SI125-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeBy 2014, Palantir Technologies, a fast growing Silicon Valley company with global impact at the heart of its mission, had spent several years donating the same software to nonprofits that it sold to commercial customers to help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. It had consolidated these philanthropic activities in 2011, when Jason Payne, a long-time software engineer at the company, made an internal transition to found the compan...Starting at €8.20
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KiOR: The Quest for Cellulosic Biofuels
Reichelstein, S; Rosenthal, S; Sahoo, ACase SGSB-E427-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2012, KiOR was in the process of starting biofuels production at its first plant in Columbus, Mississippi. This initial plant was to provide a commercial scale proof-of-concept of KiOR’s production technology, and the company expected to build another set of plants in Natchez, MS using “copy exact” principles. These latter plants would be three times the size of the Columbus plants, and KiOR anticipated a number of improvements in its produc...Starting at €8.20
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KiOR: The Quest for Cellulosic Biofuels - Teaching Note
Reichelstein, S; Rosenthal, S; Sahoo, ATeaching Note SGSB-E427TN-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2012, KiOR was in the process of starting biofuels production at its first plant in Columbus, Mississippi. This initial plant was to provide a commercial scale proof-of-concept of KiOR’s production technology, and the company expected to build another set of plants in Natchez, MS using “copy exact” principles. These latter plants would be three times the size of the Columbus plants, and KiOR anticipated a number of improvements in its produc...Starting at €0.00
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Good Ventures: The Power of Informed Decisions - Teaching Note
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Sarah MurrayTeaching Note SGSB-SI124TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeIn 2010, Cari Tuna quit her job at the Wall Street Journal to work full-time on developing a giving strategy for herself and her husband—Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. In May 2011, the couple created the philanthropic foundation Good Ventures. Tuna made transparency and knowledge sharing core components of the foundation; creating a blog to report on the foundation’s activities and learnings. Good Ventures co-funded projects so that the...Starting at €0.00
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Knights Apparel and the Alta Gracia Factory: Paying a Living Wage - Teaching Note
Paul Brest, Debra SchifrinnTeaching Note SGSB-SM237TN-EStrategyIn 2014 The Alta Gracia clothing factory in the Dominican Republic was doing something quite unusual in the industry; it was paying its employees a living wage, which was 350 percent higher than the country’s minimum wage. Knights Apparel, which owned the four-year old factory, also provided benefits, health care, and allowed the workers to unionize. Most apparel factories paid employees a minimum wage, which in some places was not enough to pay...Starting at €0.00
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Palantir Philanthropy Engineering: Software to Improve Lives - Teaching Note
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Sarah MurrayTeaching Note SGSB-SI125TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeBy 2014, Palantir Technologies, a fast growing Silicon Valley company with global impact at the heart of its mission, had spent several years donating the same software to nonprofits that it sold to commercial customers to help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. It had consolidated these philanthropic activities in 2011, when Jason Payne, a long-time software engineer at the company, made an internal transition to found the compan...Starting at €0.00
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Knights Apparel and the Alta Gracia Factory: Paying a Living Wage
Paul Brest, Debra SchifrinnCase SGSB-SM237-EStrategyIn 2014 The Alta Gracia clothing factory in the Dominican Republic was doing something quite unusual in the industry; it was paying its employees a living wage, which was 350 percent higher than the country’s minimum wage. Knights Apparel, which owned the four-year old factory, also provided benefits, health care, and allowed the workers to unionize. Most apparel factories paid employees a minimum wage, which in some places was not enough to pay...Starting at €8.20