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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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).

http://www.hulu.com/dilbert

Cirque du Soleil-Algeria

Great to have these Cirque videos if you teach Blue Ocean Strategy concepts. CAUTION – this material is addictive!

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Cirque du Soleil Alegria, Powertrack

Great to have these Cirque videos if you teach Blue Ocean Strategy concepts. CAUTION – this material is addictive!

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“O” Cirque du Soleil Resident Show

Great to have these Cirque videos if you teach Blue Ocean Strategy concepts. CAUTION – this material is addictive!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Bacon Salt Case on YouTube, various lengths

Click here to access the link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/baconsalt

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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

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People stuck on an escalator

How do people respond to the prospect of change? Often they become paralyzed — this illustrates that in a very funny way. Also useful to discuss rigid routines that may become core rigidities…

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Cadbury Adams Video

If you teach the Cadbury acquisition case (of Adams) this funny ad from the Canadian region can be a nice complement since they were trying to create revenue synergies across the two companies (including introducing new products). Note that the synergies are spelled out in surprising detail in the B case where Cadbury management identifies 70 distinct synergies along with the type of synergy (cost or revenue), their likelihood of being achieved, an estimate of the potential value, and what region would be involved.

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Video and Web Resources

I added this new section to tap into the online community of video and websites that can be brought into the classroom on an as-needed basis and short notice

  • One-Hour Clips from notables like Jack Welch-streaming video
  • Long and short entrepreneurship interview clips in streaming video (Harvard)
  • e-Clips collection that contains thousands of video
    clips that were created from in-depth video interviews
    or presentations by startup and experienced entrepreneurs,
    venture capitalists, bankers, angel investors, and employees of startup companies. Video

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