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- 2008
- Working Paper
Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After?
By: James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard
What happens when small iconic socially-oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant opportunities for creating both business value and substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because... View Details
- July 2008 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement
By: Michael E. Porter, Saquib Rahim and Benjamin Chung-Shi Tsai
As of 2007, there were very few examples of widespread measurement and reporting of health outcomes, a critical quality measure. In-vitro fertilization clinics have been required to report their patient's health outcomes since 1995. The protagonist of the case, Dr.... View Details
- March 2007
- Teaching Note
Organics: Coming Center Stage? (TN)
By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin
Keywords: Food
- 2006
- Chapter
Social Entrepreneurship: It's for Corporations, Too
By: Dutch Leonard, Ezequiel Reficco, Jane Wei-Skillern and James E. Austin
- November 2006
- Case
Organics: Coming Center Stage?
By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin
The organics movement has certainly come a long way. From hippie farming communes and a scattering of natural food stores in the 1960s, organics outgrew its origins as a counterculture curiosity of the 1970s to become the fastest growing segment of the food industry in... View Details
- fall 2006
- Article
Business and Low-Income Sectors: Finding a New Weapon to Attack Poverty
By: James E. Austin and Michael Chu
- 2006
- Book
Effective Management of Social Enterprises: Lessons from Businesses and Civil Society Organizations in Iberoamerica
By: James E. Austin, Roberto Gutierrez, Enrique Ogliastri and Ezequiel Reficco
- May 2006
- Teaching Note
Forest Stewardship Council (TN)
By: James E. Austin and Ezequiel Reficco
Keywords: Forestry Industry
- February 2006
- Teaching Note
Timberland: Commerce and Justice (TN)
By: James E. Austin, Herman B. Leonard and James Quinn
Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry
- 2006
- Book
Gestión efectiva de emprendimientos sociales
By: James E. Austin, Roberto Gutierrez, Enrique Ogliastri and Ezequiel Reficco
- 2006
- Case
Managing at Scale in the Long Beach Unified School District
By: James E. Austin, Allen S. Grossman, Robert B. Schwartz and Jennifer Suesse
- 2006
- Teaching Note
Managing at Scale in the Long Beach Unified School District, Teaching Note
By: James E. Austin, Allen Grossman and Jennifer Suesse
- January 2006
- Article
Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: Same, Different, or Both?
By: James E. Austin, Howard Stevenson and Jane Wei-Skillern
- 2006
- Chapter
Corporate Social Entrepreneurship: A New Vision for CSR
By: James E. Austin, Dutch Leonard, Ezequiel Reficco and Jane Wei-Skillern
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship
- December 2005 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
Ben & Jerry's: Preserving Mission & Brand within Unilever
By: James E. Austin and James Quinn
In the months after Ben & Jerry's was acquired by Unilever, Ben & Jerry's head social mission faces challenges and opportunities unique in the company's history, including: how to manage employee morale; whether to include synthetic ingredients to meet consumer... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Value Creation; Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States