New Belgium Brewing: Ethical and Environmental Responsibility1 Although most of the companies frequently cited as examples of ethical and socially responsible firms are large corporations, it is the social responsibility initiatives of small businesses that often have the greatest impact on local communities and neighborhoods. These businesses create jobs and provide goods and services for customers in smaller markets that larger corporations often are not interested in serving. Moreover, they also
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Mountain Man Light: More Profits or Less Brand Equity? TMBA BBUS 506 A Michael Cavelero, Joel Engstrom, Nesreen Zadah, David Tobey 5/3/2010 1 | P a g e Introduction "We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice." – Samuel Johnson, ‘On the Sale of Thrale’s Brewery’ “Some of those coal miners could really drink some beer. We would always stay until closing time, and it happened so many times that the busses were not
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Case Overview/Selection/Assignments BrandScape Dates and Assignments Because of the tight seven-week scheduling of this course, we need to arrange for teams and team assignments for both the BrandScape and Case Assignments right away. To facilitate this process, the assignments and dates are outlined here. Please, as soon as is possible, sign up for the BrandScape date as well as the case of your choice. Please indicate your team by name, names of all team members, and your preferences with
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Light Marketing Strategy 15 What is the current situation? Mountain Man Brewing Company (MMBC) is a family business founded in West Virginia in 1925 by Guntar Prangel. The company is now operated by Guntar’s grandson, Oscar. Oscar’s son, Chris, is slated to inherit the business in five years when his father retires. Mountain Man (MM) Lager is the flagship product and the only beer currently produced by the company. The recipe for the lager was based on a refined family recipe and is known
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A Rose for Emily Summary How It All Goes Down You might want to look at our discussion of the novel's setting before you enter here, or at least know it's there to help if you get tangled up in this story's crazy chronology. Also keep in mind that the narrator of this story represents several generations of men and women from the town. The story begins at the huge funeral for Miss Emily Grierson. Nobody has been to her house in ten years, except for her servant. Her house is old, but was once
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Define elements of an organization’s culture. p. 72 Discuss how an organization’s culture affects its response to its external environment. p. 72 LO 2 LO 3 LO 4 LO 5 LO 6 LO 7 Management Close-Up HOW CAN LARRY BLANFORD KEEP GREEN MOUNTAIN COFFEE ROASTERS PERKING? In 1981, Bob Stiller began serving his coffee to custompiece of pie or a donut. Not until the mid-1990s did cofers in a tiny Vermont café. He was focused simply on fee brewing became an art form, as the Starbucks-led giving
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Thursday, 8 am to 7 pm ET Friday. Phone: 1-800-810-8858 (1-617-783-7700 outside the U.S. and Canada) Email: custserv@hbsp.harvard.edu Web: hbsp.harvard.edu C ASES Cases, slices of business life, focus on actual problems and decisions facing a company. Students are challenged to put themselves in the protagonist’s place and suggest business strategies, tactics, and solutions. New Cases ABICI The co-founder of an Italian bicycle manufacturer evaluates whether reducing
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that some form of heavenly beings had created all of life and, as a crowning achievement, topped it off with humans. Now, consider that for a moment. Today the CEO of a medium-sized corporation can verbally issue an instruction to be carried out company-wide and have no hope it will reach the lower echelons intact. So the fact that most historical cultures, from first to most recent (our own), believed essentially the same creation story is astonishing in its consistency. Naturally, such long-term
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the west, South Sudan to the north-west, Ethiopia to the north and Somalia to the north-east. Kenya covers 581,309 km2 (224,445 sq mi) and has a population of about 44 million in July 2012. The country named after Mount Kenya, the second highest mountain in Africa. The country has a warm and humid climate along its Indian Ocean coastline, with wildlife-rich savannah grasslands inland towards the capital. Nairobi has a cool climate that gets colder approaching Mount Kenya, which has three permanently
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throughout the entire world. To say that Starbucks is merely a coffee shop is an enormous understatement. The chain is composed of over 20,500 stores located in 62 countries. Precisely 13,279 of them are located in the U.S. alone. (Starbucks Company Profile, 2012) The company features an array of hot and cold drinks as well as sandwiches and pastries. One of the overall goals of Starbucks is also to be a home away from home featuring comfortable couches, friendly barista’s, and an inviting atmosphere. Various
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