...CSR Case Studies: Coca-Cola Prepared by the Kenan Institute Asia October 2010 Lead author John DaSilva, Project Development Manager, Kenan Institute Asia Research, editing, production and translation team Paul Wedel, Christine Davis, Richard Bernhard, Stephanie B. Soderborg, Pham Lam Thuy Quynh, Peeranun Panyavaranant and Kamonphorn Kanchana This case study was developed under the Global Compact Network Vietnam (GCNV). The Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) is the national implementing partner of GCNV with financial support provided by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Kenan Institute Asia was selected as the project consultant for the Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility in the Vietnam through Research, Training and Curriculum Development Component. Coca-Cola 1 Coca-Cola Branding and CSR: How Coca-Cola Company protects its multi-billion dollar brand image through community-based water projects. Potable water for communities is a key element of a safe and healthy lifestyle. Access to potable water for drinking, cooking and cleaning is a basic need for everyone, but in many parts of the world, safe water is still a dream. It is predicted that over the course of the next 20 years, the situation will become worse, as more water resources are contaminated or disappear while the water needs of a growing population will only increase. In Vietnam, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, an estimated 40%...
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...POSITIONING STRATEGY WITH A NEW IDENTITY: A case study of VIETNAM AIRLINES by Le Hong Dac A research study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Business Administration Examination Committee: Dr. Truong Quang (Chairman) Dr. Clemens Bechter Dr. Lalit.M.Johri Nationality: Vietnamese Previous Degree: Bachelor of Economics University of Agriculture and Forestry HoChiMinh City, Vietnam Scholarship Donor: The Government of Switzerland Asian Institute of Technology School of Management Bangkok, Thailand August 1999 Acknowledgement I wish to express my profound gratitude and great appreciation to my advisor Dr. Truong Quang for his valuable guidance, advice and encouragement throughout the research study. Special thanks are extended to the other members of the Examination Committee, Dr. Clemens Bechter and Dr.Lalit.M.Johri for taking interests and giving valuable suggestions to improve the content of this study. Deep appreciation and thanks are also extended to Mr. Luong Hoai Nam, Mr. Trinh Ngoc Thanh, Mr. Duong Tri Thanh, Mr. Mai Quoc Tuan, Mr. Nguyen Thuong Hai, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Minh Yen and Mr. Le Dinh Tuan of Vietnam Airlines Corporation for providing me the desired information and data for this research study. I fall short of words...
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...TIDBITS OF MY LIFE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Ray Jablonski As one grows older and ponders the past one cannot help but wonder what legacy will dwell. Thus, I shall write about the things in my life, big and small that my descendants may wish to know about and perhaps keep in their memory as well. So I shall begin with the earliest history of my life with the ends and odds of the important things I can recall. These tidbits should reveal what my whole life was all about. Perhaps the luckiest and most important day of my life was 6 p.m. on 7 November 1921 (7/11/21), the day I was born. It happened to be that I was the seventh child of thirteen siblings, right smack in the middle. My mother's name was Florence Amelia. It so happened that she was the thirteenth child of her parents, the Zbrowski's. My Zbrowski grandparents were born and married in the western German occupied area of Poland. They had several children there and migrated the family to Reading, Pennsylvania in 1879. Florence, my mother, was born there on 19 March 1890. She had six brothers and six sisters. She was very fortunate to have received a good Catholic education and graduated from Common School (eighth grade), which was quite an achievement for a female during the turn of the last century. She was bilingual and could read and write both Polish and English. Her father was a successful tailor and a proprietor of a local saloon at...
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...ALSO BY MALCOLM GLADWELL The Tipping Point To my parents, Joyce and Graham Gladwell Introduction The Statue That Didn’t Look Right In September of 1983, an art dealer by the name of Gianfranco Becchina approached the J. Paul Getty Museum in California. He had in his possession, he said, a marble statue dating from the sixth century BC. It was what is known as a kouros—a sculpture of a nude male youth standing with his left leg forward and his arms at his sides. There are only about two hundred kouroi in existence, and most have been recovered badly damaged or in fragments from grave sites or archeological digs. But this one was almost perfectly preserved. It stood close to seven feet tall. It had a kind of light-colored glow that set it apart from other ancient works. It was an extraordinary find. Becchina’s asking price was just under $10 million. The Getty moved cautiously. It took the kouros on loan and began a thorough investigation. Was the statue consistent with other known kouroi? The answer appeared to be yes. The style of the sculpture seemed reminiscent of the Anavyssos kouros in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, meaning that it seemed to fit with a particular time and place. Where and when had the statue been found? No one knew precisely, but Becchina gave the Getty’s legal department a sheaf of documents relating to its more recent history. The kouros, the records stated, had been in the private collection of a Swiss physician named Lauffenberger...
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