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Guidant Corporation (A): Don't Get a Heart Attack! Difficult Decisions in a Pacemaker Firm
Vaccaro, AntoninoCase BE-169-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and ChangeGuidant Corporation is a high tech start 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. Manager has to choose whether to disclose the information only to the FDA as requested by the law, or also to inform the patients and doctors.Starting at €8.20
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El proyecto Indego Africa (A): Génesis y lanzamiento de una empresa social competitiva
Plana Olías, Alicia; Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-203Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipMatt Mitro, un abogado especializado en finanzas de proyectos de un bufete internacional, y su padre, Tom Mitro, fundaron Indego Africa (Indego es un acrónimo de independencia, desarrollo y gobierno) el 21 de junio de 2007. Constituida como entidad sin ánimo de lucro en Texas pero centrada en África, su misión era empoderar económicamente a las mujeres de Ruanda. Matt optó por este tipo de persona jurídica para subrayar la misión social de la org...Starting at €8.20
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El proyecto Indego Africa (B): Génesis y lanzamiento de una empresa social competitiva
Plana Olías, Alicia; Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-204Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipStarting at €5.74
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Fast Building (A)
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-193Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate GovernanceEste caso de dos partes describe el problema de extorsión pasiva al que se enfrenta Andrew Smith, el director de la División de Construcciones Militares en Fast Building, una pequeña empresa europea que opera en el sector de la construcción. Dicha compañía está especializada en dos áreas: reestructuración de edificios antiguos y construcción de instalaciones militares. Lleva en funcionamiento más de quince años, habiendo participado en concursos ...Starting at €8.20
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The Indego Africa Project (B): Genesis and launch of a competitive social enterprise
Plana Olías, Alicia; Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-204-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, EntrepreneurshipPart B of the case The Indego Africa Project (A). Matt Mitro, a project finance attorney at an international law firm, and his father, Tom Mitro, founded Indego Africa on June 21, 2007. The organization (where "Indego" means "independence, development, governance") started as an Africa-centered nonprofit organization incorporated in Texas whose mission was to help Rwandan women by empowering them economically. Matt Mitro chose the nonprofit corp...Starting at €5.74
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There is a Price for Human Life : Some considerations in the civil engineering sector
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ruiz, José MaríaTechnical Note BEN-133-EInnovation and ChangeIs there is a price for human life? While a great number of people would agree that human life has no monetary value, a critical examination of the models adopted by policy makers and professionals in engineering, particularly in some areas of the civil engineering sector, shows that decision makers are sometimes forced to put a price human on life during important decision-making processes. Several decades ago, the use of utilitarian approaches,...Starting at €8.20
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Samasource
Vaccaro, Antonino; Ramus, TommasoCase BE-195Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Information TechnologiesSamasource es una empresa sin ánimo de lucro del tipo 501(c)(3) que opera en el sector de la externalización de procesos empresariales (BPO, por sus siglas en inglés [business process outsourcing]). Su actividad consiste en ofrecer servicios digitales a precios competitivos, y su plantilla está formada por trabajadores que viven en las regiones más pobres de economías emergentes, incluyendo áreas suburbanas de la India, Kenia y Uganda, entre otro...Starting at €8.20
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The Trial of Business Ethics
Vaccaro, Antonino; Kusyk, SophiaTechnical Note BEN-128-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityWhy are we so skeptical about business ethics? Why, whenever we mention corporate social responsibility during a casual conversation, a tight smile appears on the face of our interlocutor? In the following pages we will try to explore this impenitent disbelief which seems to affect managers, scholars, consumers, activists and even policy makers. We think that there are very good reasons for being skeptical about how business ethics and CSR are ...Starting at €8.20
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Acton Institute - Teaching Note
Vaccaro, Antonino; Potito, GianmicheleTeaching Note BET-21-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate GovernanceThis is a flexible case that can be used in courses on social entrepreneurship, social innovation, business ethics and corporate social responsibility, among others. This case has three main objectives. The first is to make students aware of what think tanks are and the role they can play in business and society. The second is to learn how different, and critical, structuring a corporate governance system can be in a public policy institute as op...Starting at €0.00
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Brunello Cucinelli - Teaching Note
Vaccaro, Antonino; Potito, GianmicheleTeaching Note BET-20-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe company Brunello Cucinelli is an Italian fashion house operating in what it calls the "absolute luxury goods sector," specializing in cashmere. Over time, it has become one of the most exclusive brands in the international informal luxury prêt-à-porter sector. The company, founded in 1978 by the stylist and philanthropist Brunello Cucinelli, employs 1,200 people and reported ?355.9 million in revenue in 2014.Starting at €0.00