responsibilities and ethical stances as their key branding strategy which emphasized on “Natural” and “Environmentally Friendly”. For example all their ingredients used to produce their products are not tested on animals; they give monetary donations to the communities and they had business partnership with developing countries, compared to its products. From the view on the history of Body Shop, Anita Roddick and her husband Gordon Roddick were enthused to company a beauty products store after seeing a store
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The Business and Politics of Environmental Regulation and Activism 3028IBA – Energy and Environmental Security Dr Tapan Sarker Department of International Business and Asian Studies 3028IBA - 2013 Topics Covered in this Lecture • The business/corporate sector and the environment (essentially business and the climate change issue); and • Emissions trading schemes (the key strategy, considered the most cost-effective strategy, by which economic activity is to be guided towards meeting certain
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Solar Photovoltaic Industry Corporate Social Responsibility in the Solar Photovoltaic Industry CSR Across Industries CSR Across Industries Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 The Solar Photovoltaic Industry and CSR related issues 3 Introduction 3 CSR Issues 4 Companies 4 The Companies 5 1. British Petroleum – (Philip Leith) 5 2. ENEL – (Santiago Liotta) 7 3. MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. / SunEdison – (Eleonora Ricciardi) 9 4
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How Global Brands Compete When a brand is marketed around the w orld, t hat fact alone gives it an aura of excellence-and a set of obligations.To maximize the value of global reach, companies must manage b oth. 68 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch, and Earl LTaylor I More than two decades ago, Harvard Business School professor Theodore Levitt provocatively declared in a 1983 HBR article, "The Globalization of Markets" that a global market for uniform
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revitalise the world’s economy CUHK CSR case competition winner will be awarded a Swire internship CSR 2014 is published by Education Post, South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Editorial Editor Assistant Editor Community Editor Reporter Designer Sub Editor Cover photo: iStockphoto Ginn Fung Gary Ng Daisy Fung Sharon Li Candy Lai Paul Wenham Contact Us Editorial editor@educationpost.com.hk Advertising
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How Global Brands Compete When a brand is marketed around the world, that fact alone gives it an aura of excellence-and a set of obligations.To maximize the value of global reach, companies must manage both. 68 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch, and Earl LTaylor I More than two decades ago, Harvard Business School professor Theodore Levitt provocatively declared in a 1983 HBR article, "The Globalization of Markets" that a global market for uniform
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How Global Brands Compete When a brand is marketed around the world, that fact alone gives itan aura of excellence-and a set of obligations.To maximize the value of global reach, companies must manage both. 68 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch, and Earl LTaylor I More than two decades ago, Harvard Business School professor Theodore Levitt provocatively declared in a 1983 HBR article, "The Globalization of Markets" that a global market for uniform products
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Table of contents Acknowledgements Statement of Authorship Abstract 1.0 Introduction 1 2.1 General Introduction 1-2 2.2 Background to the problems 2-3 2.3 The Objectives of the study 3-4 2.0 Literature Review 5 3.4 Definition of CSR 5 3.5 The Evolution of CSR 5-7 3.6 Carroll’s 4 Components Pyramid CSR 7 3.7.1 Philanthropic
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Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous
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Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous
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