Corporate Social Responsibility

The Coffee Crisis

Publication Date: December 01, 2004

In 2004, the governments of coffee producing countries were considering how to respond to the dramatic decline in coffee prices caused in part by a large increase in coffee production in Brazil and Vietnam. Coffee was the main source of income...

Oxfam America: Becoming a Global Campaigning Organization

Publication Date: March 25, 2004

In 2000, Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization, launched itself on a bold new course. A small but respected agency, it had devoted itself for three decades to supporting partner organizations in developing countries...

The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (B)

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

The (B) case, details the decisions which the Corporation for National and Community Service made as to how best to estimate the funding needs for the Trust. The (B) case (1740.0), however, goes on to frame political questions which develop when...

The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003: Why the National Service Movement Faced Cutbacks and How it Responded (A)

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

The (A) case (1739.0) focuses on the early years of the program in the 1990s, providing a definitive account--based on interviews with those who drafted the authorizing legislation--on how the program was conceived and structured and how it...

Placebo Trials in Africa: The African American Dilemma at the Centers for Disease Control (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

In 1997, a small group of African American doctors and scientists on the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found themselves on the horns of a painful dilemma. For months, they had been making known their objections to...

Placebo Trials in Africa: The African American Dilemma at the Centers for Disease Control

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

In 1997, a small group of African American doctors and scientists on the staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found themselves on the horns of a painful dilemma. For months, they had been making known their objections to...

Financing Slum Rehabilitation in Mumbai: A Nonprofit Caught in the Middle (Epilogue)

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In November 2001, an Indian non-governmental organization dedicated to improving the lives and housing of the slum-dwellers of Bombay (Mumbai) learned that there were potential financial problems with a major new housing project in which it had...

Financing Slum Rehabilitation in Mumbai: A Nonprofit Caught in the Middle

Publication Date: April 01, 2003

In November 2001, an Indian non-governmental organization dedicated to improving the lives and housing of the slum-dwellers of Bombay (Mumbai) learned that there were potential financial problems with a major new housing project in which it had...

Coastal Ventures Limited Partnership: Balancing a Sustainable Investment Strategy with a Social Mission

Publication Date: October 01, 2002

Nat Henshaw, president of CEI Ventures Inc. (CVI) a subsidiary of the nonprofit Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), was involved in a balancing act. He was a manager of a for-profit venture capital fund, Coastal Ventures Limited Partnership (CVLP),...

Seeking Neighborhood Revitalization in Philadelphia: Using Tax Credits to Link the Private and Nonprofit Sectors

Publication Date: December 01, 1999

In this case, the relationship between public goals of the revitalization of distressed neighborhoods in Philadelphia and nonprofit organizations is mediated by an unusual vehicle. A Pennsylvania state tax credit program is designed to channel...

Microsoft on Trial

Publication Date: August 01, 1999

In July 1999, US Federal District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson had to decide whether, as alleged by the US Department of Justice, Microsoft had illegally monopolized the supply of personal computer operating systems. The trial, originally...

Reforming State-Owned Enterprises in China: Dong An Group and C&W Electronics

Publication Date: October 01, 1998

The transformation of the economy of China during the 1980s and 1990s sparked a wave of growth. At the same time, however, it left unresolved the relative roles of firms, formerly state-owned and managed, and the state itself, in providing...