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Contributed by Mason Carpenter
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Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics (various)
The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics has launched a free online video series, the Masters Seminars in Business Ethics. Topics include: Building Trust with Stakeholders, Creating a Culture of Integrity, Teaching Business Ethics, and History of the CSR Movement.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Big Box Mart (play on Wal-Mart)
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jibjab video on Big Box Mart. There was a 60 minute PBS Frontline program on “is Walmart good for America,” which this 3 minute video essentially summarizes.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Ideas for course openers
Not exactly ice breakers, but some interesting thoughts on opening a course summarized by a top finance professor at Darden.
Value Appropriation with a Midas Touch
This story on “A Current Affair” depicts the tremendous negative impact of Midas’ corporate troubles on the lives of its franchisees. It explores value appropriation between a franchisee/franchiser. This illustrates how extreme value appropriation efforts can lead to value destruction. Once the company was in trouble, the CEO was forced out and the stakeholders vied for whatever value they could gain from the pieces.Here is an article on the sale of the Australian operations.
Contributed by Aya Chacar
VW environmental initiative
A collection of clever and funny video vignettes compiled by VW to show innovative ways of getting people involved in bettering the environment. FunTheory
Dell’s Extreme Makeover
Great combo of an interesting BW article on Dell’s morphing strategy and a short video that talks through some of the changes and challenges facing Dell.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_43/b4152036025436.htm
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
A Dilbertian Perspective on Organizations
In business, why do the stupid always rise to the top? And what’s an “action item?” These and other mysteries are explored in this animated series that chronicles the corporate life of an engineer named Dilbert and his talking dog, Dogbert. Just like Dilbert, you could waste days previewing these hilarious digs on business (I open my M&A class with the opening minutes from The Merger video).
Blue Ocean Strategy Summary
A synopsis of the business management book ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Cirque du Soleil-Algeria
Great to have these Cirque videos if you teach Blue Ocean Strategy concepts. CAUTION – this material is addictive!
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Cirque du Soleil Alegria, Powertrack
Great to have these Cirque videos if you teach Blue Ocean Strategy concepts. CAUTION – this material is addictive!
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
“O” Cirque du Soleil Resident Show
Great to have these Cirque videos if you teach Blue Ocean Strategy concepts. CAUTION – this material is addictive!
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Dr. Erwin Danneels-NBR Innovation Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Erwin Danneels from WPI on June 19, 2008. The focus of this commentary is on the effects of open communication on innovation at firms.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Rav4 Destructive Rivalry Commercial
We often think of industry concentration as an indicator of monopoly profits. However, even in an industry with only two competitors, they can compete in such a way that no above normal profits are realized. This video makes that point in a fairly humorous way.
Contributed by Russ Coff
Star Alliance
A short and good introduction of Star Alliance – The Airline Network for Earth.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Flat World Publishing: Social Learning
Flat World Knowledge is a great example of a blossoming Blue Ocean Strategy. The Atlas Black exerpt is based on one of their new graphic novels
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Game Theory with Professor Ben Polak, 24 1-hr Modules
This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere. Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
Click here to access the link:
http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-159
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Bacon Salt Case on YouTube, various lengths
Bacon Salt Article/Case
Download the Bacon Salt Article here
I use the BaconSalt case to talk about how to shift from a product-strategy-mindset to an organization-thinking mindset. The Midwest Express article(linked here – and that I use as the “case”) does a good job summarizing the firm and here is also the link to the BaconSalt YouTube video website. A fun and tasty case.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Fail-Forward-Fast
Nice snippet on the notion of fail forward fast in the context of professional football – I use it to talk about the notion in the context of high velocity decision making.
Click the link below to access the video:
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-preseason/09000d5d80154651/Cameron-Fail-Forward-Fast
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
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