Ideas Worth Teaching

~ October 13, 2016 Issue ~

Helping business faculty explore the relationships between corporations, capital markets, and the public good.

SUSTAINABILITY

INEOS Chlorvinyls (A, B): A Positive Vision for PVC

INSEAD: N. Craig Smith, Dawn Jarisch

How one old-school corporation faced the sustainability challenge, and won.

FUTURE OF CAPITALISM

The Way Ahead

The Economist: Barack Obama

If "capitalism shaped by the few and unaccountable to the many is a threat to all," how do we fix it?

SUSTAINABILITY

What If Nature, Like Corporations, Had the Rights and Protections of a Person?

Fast Company: Chip Colwell

Should a mountain have the same level of personhood as, say, Hobby Lobby?

INNOVATION

Ethical Arguments Won't End Factory Farming. Technology Might.

Vox: Sean Illing

Room for Debate: What if we don't need better ethics, just better technology?

FUTURE OF WORK

The Organization Man and Woman

strategy+business: Sally Helgesen

What does an increasingly diverse workforce value? Updating William H. Whyte's 1950s management classic.

BUSINESS ETHICS

Case Learning: Selling Adultery

Ivey Business Journal: Gerard Seijts, Thomas Watso

How far should business go in seeking profit? (see related case: Avid Life).

Why work in contract theory won a Nobel Prize; three CEOs on addressing environmental issues as part of their core business strategy; what a 100-year rise in sea level will mean, and why you should care now; what if students could pay for college with public service; beyond Homo economicus, or why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens; and why corporate clawbacks need real claws.

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Ideas Worth Teaching is a tightly curated, weekly email for business school faculty to prompt new conversations in the classroom about the relationships between corporations, capital markets, and the public good. Its intent is to provide "drag and drop" functionality - allowing faculty to easily use the articles, cases and other teaching materials that we will be sharing in their class discussions.

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