While most of our students will enjoy their well-deserved vacation this month, we’ll hold events at the upcoming Academy of Management (AoM), kick-off four Young Scholars Academies, launch the registration...
Summer Slump? Not at oikos! Our Student Reporters just got back from Rio+20 and share their fascinating accounts of that mega-conference on their blog for your enjoyment. Also, find...
Case Abstract This case focuses on business model innovation and strategic organizational design at the World Toilet Organization (WTO), an innovative, Singapore-based social enterprise focusing on sanitation issues...
Case Abstract This is the story about the efforts of a social entrepreneur, Assheton Carter, to create a meaningful initiative with Wal-Mart in ethical mining. His idea: to...
Case Abstract Based in Canada, Savons Prolav is a small manufacturer of the environmentally-friendly Bio-Vert brand of cleaning products. Brother and sister Yan and Bianka Grand-Maison took over...
Case Abstract In 2001 Tom Szaky, a Princeton freshman, founded TerraCycle in the hope of starting an eco-capitalist company built on waste – worm waste to be exact....
Case Abstract Fortaleza, Northeast Brasil – Marcelo Azevedo, Urban microfinance manager, and the planning committee of Crediamigo, Brazil’s largest microfinance institution need to figure out an entry strategy...
Case Abstract Royal Dutch Shell has started to assume social and political responsibilities that go beyond legal requirements and fill the regulatory vacuum in global governance and a...
Case Abstract This case is about the sustainable development initiatives of one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, PepsiCo. Faced with various criticisms on the social...
Case Abstract After several years of preparation, in May 2009, Oxfam America (an international relief and development organization) and Swiss Re (a leading global reinsurer) along with other...