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Larson, Andrea
Coral Reef Ecosystems: Valuable and Critically Threatened
Larson, Andrea Teisberg, Tyler
ENT-0201 | Published March 12, 2014 | 16 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
Coral reef ecosystems are beautiful and vibrant underwater communities inhabited by a spectacularly diverse and abundant array of organisms essential to human needs. Reefs are severely threatened worl... Read More
REI: Sustainability Strategy and Innovation in the Outdoor Gear and Apparel Industry
ENT-0162 | Published June 29, 2011 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Many companies view financial variables independently from ecological and social variables. Is it possible to hold one's organization equally accountable for financial performance and social responsib... Read More
Project FROG: Sustainability and Innovation in Building Design
ENT-0158 | Published September 30, 2010 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A sustainable-building manufacturer is transitioning from startup to the next phase of growth just as the 2008-09 economic recession brought virtually all U.S. building construction to a halt. Suitabl... Read More
Calera: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainability
ENT-0160 | Published September 21, 2010 | 27 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A high-risk, highly capital-intensive start-up had confirmed its product's scalability and must then decide what business model made sense. It's biomimicry-inspired, environmentally sustainable cement... Read More
Climate Change
ENT-0157 | Published August 31, 2010 | 14 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
The scientific consensus on climate change's origins in human activities has begun to influence international law and corporate policies. Suitable for MBA and undergraduate students, this technical no... Read More
Method Products: Sustainability Innovation as Entrepreneurial Strategy
ENT-0159 | Published August 30, 2010 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A young company distinguishes itself in an industry dominated by manufacturing giants, then must determine what products to pursue next. Suitable for MBA and undergraduate learners, this case demonstr... Read More
Biomimicry: Using Nature's Models as Sustainability Design Inspiration for Company Strategy and Products
ENT-0154 | Published May 10, 2010 | 9 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This brief background note provides an explanation and examples of biomimicry as an approach that provides insights into the innovative design of products and corporate strategy framing. Biomimicry us... Read More
B Corporation: A New Sustainable Business Model
ENT-0155 | Published May 10, 2010 | 10 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note provides background on a new certification process for B Corporations that enables companies to assess, compare, and protect the sustainability practices they integrate into corporate strate... Read More
Chains
ENT-0136 | Published October 21, 2009 Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
Unlike conventional supply chains, green supply chains are designed to ensure that value creation, rather than risk and waste, accumulates at each step, from design to disposal and recovery. As a prim... Read More
Frito-Lay North America: The Making of a Net Zero Snack Chip
Larson, Andrea Teichman, William
ENT-0112 | Published May 04, 2009 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Implementing a sustainability strategy requires firms to consider economic, strategic, environmental, and community perspectives. Suitable for MBA, undergraduate, and executive learners, this sustaina... Read More
Sustainability and Innovation: Frameworks, Concepts, and Tools for Product and Strategy Redesign
ENT-0138 | Published January 20, 2009 | 27 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note introduces the concepts and terms entrepreneurial innovators use in addressing sustainability. It explores the evolution of such terms as sustainable development, environmental jus... Read More
Method: Entrepreneurial Innovation, Health, Environment, and Sustainable Business Design
ENT-0099 | Published March 26, 2007 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
With Method standing at number seven on Inc. magazine's list of the 500 fastest-growing companies in 2006, cofounder Adam Lowry is searching for a biodegradable cleaning cloth to expand Method's line ... Read More
Rohner Textiles: Cradle-to-Cradle Innovation and Sustainability
ENT-0085 | Published December 06, 2006 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This minicase is one of 10 in a set of short cases written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. This case describes the supply chain ... Read More
SC Johnson's Greenlist: Health, Ecology, Profits
Larson, Andrea Archer, Geoffrey
ENT-0086 | Published December 05, 2006 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This minicase is one of 10 in a set of short cases written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. SC Johnson developed its GreenList to... Read More
Shaw Industries: Sustainable Business, Entrepreneurial Innovation, and Green Chemistry
Larson, Andrea O'Brien, Karen Anderson, Alia
ENT-0087 | Published November 09, 2006 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Shaw Industries, a leading U.S. global manufacturer of floor coverings, produced EcoWorx technology to create a carpet tile that is PVC-free and able to be recycled, upon return to the company, as a c... Read More
Wall-to-Wall Carpet Goes Cradle-to-Cradle
ENT-0084 | Published September 16, 2006 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This minicase is one of 10 in a set of short cases written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. This one features Shaw Industries, a ... Read More
Telework at AT&T: Strategy and Systems Thinking
ENT-0091 | Published March 14, 2006 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a minicase, one of 10 in a set of short cases written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. This minicase discusses AT&T's ado... Read More
NatureWorks: Biotech Innovation, Sustainable Business, and Corn-based Plastic
ENT-0097 | Published March 14, 2006 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a minicase, one of 10 in a set of short cases written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. This minicase on NatureWorks trace... Read More
The New Strategic Frontier: Environment, Sustainability, and Entrepreneurial Innovation
ENT-0041 | Published March 11, 2006 | 10 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
A new frontier of innovation exists where economic and population growth collides with natural systems (the environment). This note details the changing character of environmental issues and outlines ... Read More
Illustrating the Financial Benefits of Green Chemistry
ENT-0076 | Published February 06, 2006 Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note forms the basis of a discussion on the economic value added of green chemistry principles. Students can learn how to increase NOPAT by increasing sales; increase NOPAT by decreasin... Read More
Nike: Moving Down the Sustainability Track Through Chemical Substitution and Waste Reduction
ENT-0098 | Published January 31, 2006 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a minicase, one of 10 in a set of short cases written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. This minicase discusses the format... Read More
East West Partners: Sustainability Strategy in Real Estate Development and Ski Resorts
ENT-0093 | Published January 31, 2006 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a minicase, one of 10 in a set of short cases written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. This minicase describes the creati... Read More
Shaw Industries: EcoWorx and Cradle-to-Cradle Innovation in Carpet Tile
ENT-0095 | Published January 31, 2006 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a minicase, one of 10 in a set of short cases written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. This minicase documents the techno... Read More
Coastwide Labs: Product and Strategy Redesign in Commerical Cleaning Products
ENT-0096 | Published January 31, 2006 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a minicase, one of 10 in a set of short cases written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. The Coastwide Labs minicase traces... Read More
Bank of America Tower: Redesigning Skyscrapers
ENT-0092 | Published January 30, 2006 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a minicase, one of 10 in a set of short cases written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. This minicase describes Bank of Am... Read More
Method: Sustainable Design for the Home as Corporate Strategy
ENT-0094 | Published January 29, 2006 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This minicase is one of 10 in a series written to illustrate the business benefits companies realize through adopting sustainable business strategies. Method is a successful startup firm in San Franci... Read More
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals: Green Chemistry Innovation and Business Strategy
Larson, Andrea O'Brien, Karen Anderson, Alia
ENT-0088 | Published January 22, 2006 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Between 2002 and 2004, Pfizer explored green chemistry as a product, process, and strategy design approach that could address a growing set of market complexities. The case requires students to unders... Read More
Natureworks: Green Chemistry’s Contribution to Biotechnology, Innovation, Commercialization, and Strategic Positioning
Larson, Andrea O'Brien, Karen Anderson, Alia
ENT-0089 | Published January 18, 2006 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2002, NatureWorks LLC, a small subsidiary of U.S. agricultural giant Cargill Inc., was recognized for its development of the first synthetic polymer class to be produced from renewable resources, s... Read More
Toxic Chemicals: Responding to Challenges and Opportunities
ENT-0043 | Published March 21, 2004 | 15 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
The growing impact of toxic chemical use is a major issue corporations face in the 21st century. This note offers an overview of the effects of toxins on human health and the natural environment: Canc... Read More
Environmental Health: Chemicals in Breast Milk
ENT-0078 | Published February 07, 2004 | 5 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
Although breast milk is recognized by doctors, public health officials, and scientists as the best first food for an infant, it is not pure. Many synthetic chemicals released into the environment, int... Read More
Environment, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation: Systems Efficiency Strategies for Industrial and Commercial Facilities
Larson, Andrea Lotspeich, Chris
ENT-0052 | Published August 28, 2003 | 17 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
Many managers are unaware of the strategic advantages and cost savings possible through systems analysis applied to material, energy, and water use in building design and operation. This technical not... Read More
Rating Environmental Performance in the Building Industry: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
Larson, Andrea Meier, Mark York, Jeff
ENT-0053 | Published August 28, 2003 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Environmentally preferable or "green" building uses optimal and innovative design to provide economic, health, environmental, and social benefits. In 1993 the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) was f... Read More
Emissions Trading at Atlantic Energy
Larson, Andrea Keach, Stephen Capoor, Karan
ENT-0042 | Published March 21, 2003 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case engages students in a real decision context: an electric utility evaluates the opportunities in emissions trading. It exposes students to fast-changing markets for pollution credits and to t... Read More
The Path To Sustainable Business: Environmental Frameworks, Practices, and Related Tools
Larson, Andrea Teisberg, Elizabeth Johnson, Richard R.
ENT-0033 | Published December 22, 2002 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the late 1980s, the concept of sustainable development gained prominence as a perspective for understanding the changing dynamic of business and the environment. It is a term that has come to mean ... Read More
Ikea and the Natural Step
Larson, Andrea Reichart, Joel E.
ENT-0030 | Published November 19, 2002 | 33 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 1996, IKEA's $5 billion in revenues made it the world's largest retailer of home furnishings. This case uses IKEA to analyze how large companies can retain their entrepreneurial roots and innovativ... Read More
UTC Fuel Cells: Innovation Inside a Large Firm
ENT-0018 | Published April 01, 2002 | 30 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
To be used to enhance student understanding of emerging markets and innovation around fuel cell technology, and the strategy and management of an entrepreneurial unit inside United Technologies Corp. ... Read More
Introduction to Wind Energy
Larson, Andrea Keach, Stephen Jackson, Giles
ENT-0017 | Published December 06, 2001 | 22 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note provides a technical and market overview of the wind power industry as of 2007. Growing off a small base, investments in wind energy technology and applications are rapidly expanding worldwi... Read More
Fuel Cell Technology and Market Opportunities
ENT-0016 | Published April 01, 2001 | 23 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note can be used as informational background reading on fuel cells, an environmentally attractive alternative technology for power generation and transportation. Courses that deal with innovation... Read More
Ecover and Green Marketing (C)
Werhane, Patricia H. Larson, Andrea Spiro, Lisa Reichart, Joel E.
E-0174 | Published September 17, 1999 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This set of cases describes the dilemma of a small Belgian detergent company which, faced with the inability to compete, developed an environmentally friendly detergent and household cleaners. Then th... Read More
Ecover and Green Marketing (A)
Werhane, Patricia H. Larson, Andrea Spiro, Lisa Reichart, Joel E.
E-0172 | Published September 17, 1999 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This set of cases describes the dilemma of a small Belgian detergent company which, faced with the inability to compete, developed an environmentally friendly detergent and household cleaners. Then th... Read More
Ecover and Green Marketing (B)
Werhane, Patricia H. Larson, Andrea Spiro, Lisa Reichart, Joel E.
E-0173 | Published September 17, 1999 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This set of cases describes the dilemma of a small Belgian detergent company which, faced with the inability to compete, developed an environmentally friendly detergent and household cleaners. Then th... Read More
The Natural Step
ENT-0039 | Published January 29, 1999 | 14 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note explains "The Natural Step" framework, an educational and implementational tool used by corporations to incorporate environmental programs and sustainability principles into strategy and ope... Read More
An Overview of the Historical Context for Sustainable Business in the United States, 1960—2000
Larson, Andrea Johnson, Richard R.
ENT-0034 | Published January 21, 1999 | 15 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
The concept of sustainable business is a powerful new perspective on creating value for multiple stakeholders. It links the previously conflicting interests of economic efficiency, social equity, and ... Read More
Walden Paddlers
ENT-0027 | Published March 04, 1997 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case describes the process that entrepreneur Paul Farrow went through to establish his kayak company between 1992 and 1996. After being laid off from a more traditional corporate position, Farrow... Read More
Tar Products: AlliedSignal (A)
Bruner, Robert F. Larson, Andrea Paddack, Katarina
G-0504 | Published October 18, 1996 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case discusses the impact of corporate leadership on the financial-turnaround efforts of a division of a large corporation. At the date of the case, Charles L. Griffith, new general manager and v... Read More
Carbon Materials and Technologies: AlliedSignal (B)
Bruner, Robert F. Larson, Andrea Paddack, Katarina
G-0505 | Published October 18, 1996 | 26 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is a follow-up to "Tar Products: AlliedSignal (A)," G-0504. At the date of the B case, 13 months have passed since Charles L. Griffith joined Carbon Materials and Technologies. The business ... Read More
Designtex, Inc. (B)
Werhane, Patricia H. Larson, Andrea Gorman, Michael E. Mehalik, Matthew M.
E-0100 | Published March 01, 1996 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case briefly covers the sequence of events that led to Designtex's successful introduction of Climatex Lifecycle, a complete compostable material that is produced by an absolutely clean manufactu... Read More
Designtex, Inc. (A)
Werhane, Patricia H. Larson, Andrea Gorman, Michael E. Mehalik, Matthew M.
E-0099 | Published March 01, 1996 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Susan Lyons, a vice president at Designtex, a firm that develops high-end custom fabric collections, wants to create an environmentally responsible fabric that will provide a model for sustainable des... Read More
Women's World Banking: The Early Years
Larson, Andrea Mockard, Jeanne
ENT-0025 | Published April 24, 1991 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case serves multiple teaching purposes. It can be used effectively in an entrepreneurship course or for a discussion of entrepreneurship in the context of nonprofit organizations. Women's World B... Read More
Corporate Greenhouse Gas Accounting: Carbon Footprint Analysis
Larson, Andrea Teichman, William
ENT-0113 | Published | 17 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
Stakeholder climate change actions worldwide have prompted companies to measure their greenhouse gas emissions and reduce their carbon footprints by decreasing energy and fuel use. In the process, the... Read More