CASE STUDY

The case draws a parallel between coffee and wine. Both beverages encourage connoisseurship, but only wine growers reap a premium for their efforts to ensure quality.The case describes the history of coffee production across the world, the rise of the "third wave" of coffee consumption in the developed world, the efforts of the Illy Company to help coffee growers, and the differences between "fair" trade and direct trade. Faculty have found the case provides a wide canvas to discuss supply chain issues, examine marketing practices, and encourage creative solutions to business problems.

#2 - AXA: Creating New Corporate Responsibility Metrics

Faculty Supervision: Todd Cort and David Bach

The case describes AXA's corporate responsibility (CR) function. The company, a global leader in insurance and asset management, had distinguished itself in CR since formally establishing a CR unit in 2008. As the case opens, AXA's CR unit is being moved from the marketing function to the strategy group occasioning a thorough review as to how CR should fit into AXA's operations and strategy. Students are asked to identify CR issues of particular concern to the company, examine how addressing these issues would add value to the company, and then create metrics that would capture a business unit's success or failure in addressing the concerns.

#3 - IBM Corporate Service Corps

Faculty Supervision: David Bach in cooperation with University of Ghana Business School and EGADE

The case considers IBM's Corporate Service Corps (CSC), a program that had become the largest pro bono consulting program in the world. The case describes the program's triple-benefit: leadership training to the brightest young IBMers, brand recognition for IBM in emerging markets, and community improvement in the areas served by IBM's host organizations. As the program entered its second decade in 2016, students are asked to consider how the program can be improved. The case allows faculty to lead a discussion about training, marketing in emerging economies, and various ways of providing social benefit. The case highlights the synergies as well as trade-offs between pursuing these triple benefits. The case draws a parallel between coffee and wine. Both beverages encourage connoisseurship, but only wine growers reap a premium for their efforts to ensure quality.The case describes the history of coffee production across the world, the rise of the "third wave" of coffee consumption in the developed world, the efforts of the Illy Company to help coffee growers, and the differences between "fair" trade and direct trade. Faculty have found the case provides a wide canvas to discuss supply chain issues, examine marketing practices, and encourage creative solutions to business problems.

#2 - AXA: Creating New Corporate Responsibility Metrics

Faculty Supervision: Todd Cort and David Bach

The case describes AXA's corporate responsibility (CR) function. The company, a global leader in insurance and asset management, had distinguished itself in CR since formally establishing a CR unit in 2008. As the case opens, AXA's CR unit is being moved from the marketing function to the strategy group occasioning a thorough review as to how CR should fit into AXA's operations and strategy. Students are asked to identify CR issues of particular concern to the company, examine how addressing these issues would add value to the company, and then create metrics that would capture a business unit's success or failure in addressing the concerns.

#3 - IBM Corporate Service Corps

Faculty Supervision: David Bach in cooperation with University of Ghana Business School and EGADE

The case considers IBM's Corporate Service Corps (CSC), a program that had become the largest pro bono consulting program in the world. The case describes the program's triple-benefit: leadership training to the brightest young IBMers, brand recognition for IBM in emerging markets, and community improvement in the areas served by IBM's host organizations. As the program entered its second decade in 2016, students are asked to consider how the program can be improved. The case allows faculty to lead a discussion about training, marketing in emerging economies, and various ways of providing social benefit. The case highlights the synergies as well as trade-offs between pursuing these triple benefits.

1. Which from the ensuing are topographies______ of a modern economy_________

2.When no firm or consumer is great enough _____to affect ______ market price, the market is assumed to have_____

3. Which from the subsequent are the consequences of defective opposition in the markets__________

4. When one event happened before another event, __________ the fallacy in economic intellectual that the first occurrence instigated the additional event is called__________

5. When we assume that what is true for the part is__________ also true for the whole, we are committing___________

6. The three important economic difficulties ___________every human humanity must antagonize and resolve are__________

7. The three important economic problems __________-of what, how, and for whom are resolved by__________

8. Fiscal policy consists of government's_______________

9. The maximum amount of goods that can be professionally shaped by________-- an family using its scarce resources and available technology is called___________

10.Which economic period is secondhand________ to amount the overall presentation of an economy_________