Human Rights

The pay gap is narrowing between men and women in the workplace as is the percent of time men and women spend on family duties, but workplace policies have not caught up with these new realities, Professor Myra Strober says in an essay in U.S. Banker.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Global Issues [26], Nonprofits [22], Human Rights [12], Social Entrepreneurship [27]

What’s Next: Drowning Out Hate [28]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2010

Throughout history, acts of hatred have plagued communities and dominated media attention. The website Not In Our Town is working to combat that by broadcasting anti-hate stories and campaigns.

-Subscription Required [29]

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Human Rights [12]

For HP, Environmental Responsibility Is a Competitive Imperative [40]

Hewlett-Packard is finding that taking responsibility for reducing the negative impacts on the environment of its entire supply chain is "proving right for the bottom line of our company and clients." An HP executive shared the company's progress at a conference on building environmentally sustainable and socially responsible supply chain networks.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Human Rights [12]

University and Overseas Labor Focus of Panel Discussion [41]

Consumers can wield great influence over working conditions under which goods are manufactured, Professor Huggy Rao told a Stanford audience. “You’ve got to influence consumers so they’re willing to pay more,” he said.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Human Rights [12]

When Disaster Strikes, United Supply Chain Efforts Can Enhance Relief Work [42]

With the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina fresh on everyone's mind, members of humanitarian relief organizations, along with corporate and academic supply chain management experts, gathered at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to exchange ideas and best practices aimed at improving the effectiveness of major international disaster efforts.

Resource: News Article

Topic :

Human Rights [12]

Settling Up [43]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2010

Wenfang Shi holds a bioscience degree from one of China’s top five medical schools and worked as an associate professor in immunology at two leading Chinese research universities. But after moving to the U.S. and applying for numerous jobs without getting an interview or even a callback, Shi felt demoralized. Enter Upwardly Global, a nonprofit that places skilled immigrants in jobs worthy of their talents.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Arts, Culture, and Religion [44], Human Rights [12]

Airborne Peace [45]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Spring 2010

In Rwanda, Radio La Benevolencija uses soap operas to heal ethnic tensions

-Subscription Required [46]

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Human Rights [12]

Women Hold Both Sky and Solutions [47]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Winter 2010

In Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a series of vignettes brings to life the struggles and courage of unforgettable women who are, as the book’s subtitle suggests, turning oppression into opportunity.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Human Rights [12], Nonprofit Management [13]

Research: Strong Women, Strong Sector [48]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Winter 2010

What role do women have to play in a booming social sector?

-Subscription Required [49]

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Economic Development [50], Human Rights [12]

Microfinance for the Most Marginalized [51]

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2009

How small loans are tipping the social scales for Roma people

-Subscription Required [52]

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article

Topic :

Human Rights [12]

Technology’s Positive Impact on Human Rights [53]

The author details a Web that tells stories and exposes human injustice and trauma rather than gossip. She proposes this exposure will help drive the change that is needed.

Resource: Blog Post

Topic :

Government [54], Human Rights [12]

The Best Thing We Can Do for Nonprofits–and Ourselves [55]

We must actively withhold support when we see the government acting in a way counter to our ideals and its own. Those of us who supported the President’s election because we share his basic principles and values should express that support by remaining independent and criticizing when necessary, rather than by becoming supplicants to or apologists for the people we put in office. That’s an idea relevant to each and all of us as citizens.

Resource: Blog Post

Topic :

Government [54], Human Rights [12]

Spinternet [56]

The Internet has the potential to do a lot of good in the world, but we must not ignore the emerging strategies of negative influence.

Resource: Blog Post

Topic :

Arts, Culture, and Religion [44], Human Rights [12]

A Technology Revolution for Revolutions! [57]

Internet tech tools are mobilizing collective action and revolutionizing ways to start a revolution.

Resource: Blog Post

Topic :

Arts, Culture, and Religion [44], Human Rights [12]

Causefest [58]

A youth summit discusses online platforms as a means of catalyzing social change.

Resource: Blog Post

Video/Audio : All [60] | Audio [61] | Video [62]

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Economic Development [50], Human Rights [12]

Another World is Possible [63]

The annual World Social Forum is the centerpiece of an international effort to promote globalization based on peace, sustainability, and solidarity. In this audio lecture, Founder Oded Grajew describes the early planning and growth of WSF, and explains the core ideals that led to positive change and strengthened his belief that a better world is possible.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Human Rights [12], Social Entrepreneurship [27]

Global Social Entrepreneur [64]

Ashoka's founder, Bill Drayton, believes that everyone can be a changemaker. In this audio lecture, he reflects on many of the early influences that helped him understand how to advance true social progress. From these beginnings, he traces his own path in public service, and describes the founding of Ashoka, which has grown into a flourishing network of social entrepreneurs who can serve as role models for further progress in promoting social justice around the globe.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Economic Development [50], Human Rights [12], Social Entrepreneurship [27]

Building Social Business Ventures [65]

Microfinance, the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans, has proved to be an effective strategy for raising millions of families from poverty worldwide. Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, who pioneered the microloan revolution in Bangladesh, explains in this audio lecture how he saw rural poor and women struggle against deeply institutionalized economic systems, and realized the massive change that small loans could provide.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Economic Development [50], Human Rights [12]

Setting the Standard for Global Economy [66]

Social Accountability International President Alice Tepper Marlin has been leading the push to create a credible, comprehensive, and efficient verification system for assuring humane workplaces around the world. In this audio lecture, she describes the strategies the Social Accountability International's SA-8000 standard has used to get global supply chain stakeholders operating on the same page when it comes to providing employees with safe, equitable, and financially beneficial working conditions.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Economic Development [50], Human Rights [12]

Champion for Accountability [67]

Transparency International is a global network with a mission to create a world free of corruption. In this audio lecture, Peter Eigen chronicles the experiences that led him from a directorship at the World Bank to the head of a movement to strengthen civil society by stamping out corruption. He reports on new incentives for good conduct that have made the elimination of corruption a cornerstone in the international effort to promote global equity.

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Resource: Audio

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Human Rights [12]

Corporate Social Responsibility [68]

In the past few years, several international reporting standards have emerged. But are they actually changing corporate behavior? This panel explores the effectiveness of current efforts to improve and monitor labor conditions abroad.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Government [54], Human Rights [12]

Say What You Think Then Take Action [69]

San Francisco's young and charismatic mayor, Gavin Newsom, has suffered his share of punches for taking bold positions on controversial issues. In this Stanford Center for Social Innovation-sponsored talk, Newsom tells of the courage and persistence it takes to make real social change as a leader.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Environment [70], Human Rights [12]

Stanford's Guatemala Service Learning Trip, 2008-1 [71]

On a service learning trip to Guatemala, John Joseph, MBA '08, and classmates visited small producers right up to the Starbucks' organization, as well as NGOs like As Green As It Gets.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Human Rights [12]

Stanford's South Africa Service Learning Trip, 2008-4 [72]

Always Staying Informed: For Logan Deans, MBA '09, seeing the generation that went through apartheid gave him a sense of its dedication to learning and to always staying informed.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Human Rights [12]

Stanford's South Africa Service Learning Trip, 2008-3 [73]

Strong Reaction to Apartheid: During the trip to South Africa, the most striking thing for Tsai, a native of Taiwan, was the legacy of apartheid.

Resource: Video

Topic:

Human Rights [12]

Stanford's South Africa Service Learning Trip, 2008-2 [74]

Students Helped Each Other Out: It wasn't all smooth sailing on the trip. When Tsai lost her luggage her classmates stepped in to help out.

Resource: Video

Case Studies : All [75] | Academic Cases [76]

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Topics:

Human Rights [12]

Monitoring Factories Around the Globe: The Fair Labor Association and the Worker Rights Consortium [78]

Two nonprofits, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), were created in 1999 and 2000, respectively, to monitor factories around the world for sweatshop-related infractions. The two organizations had similar goals, but very different histories, strategies, and ways of operating. Their shared history has been controversial and tumultuous.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Human Rights [12]

Dr. Frances Conley (A): The Resignation, (B): The Return [79]

In 1991, Frances Conley, the first female, tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the United States, resigned from her position at Stanford Medical School over the appointment of a new department chair who was known for sexual harassment. As she becomes thrust into the media limelight, she wonders what she should do next.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Economic Development [50], Human Rights [12], Nonprofit Management [13], Philanthropy, Responsible Investing [80]

Global Fund for Women [81]

The CEO of the Global Fund for Women, an organization that seeds and supports women’s rights groups, must examine how to guide the fund’s growth without having it lose its connections with donors and grantees. She also wonders how the fund could do better at assessing grant outcomes and sharing success stories.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Human Rights [12], Philanthropy, Responsible Investing [80]

The September 11th Fund [82]

The September 11th Fund was created to support the short- and long-term needs of the people and communities affected by the World Trade Center tragedy. Many foundation leaders evaluated the difficult lessons learned in interacting with the media, and wondered how they could better use communication strategies to demonstrate their accountability.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Human Rights [12]

Mobil in Aceh, Indonesia (A) & (B) [83]

In 1998, the chief executive of Mobil in Indonesia considered how he should respond to allegations that Mobil had been complicit in human rights abuses. The cases reflect on the challenges of managing operations in a place like Aceh.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Environment [70], Human Rights [12]

The World Trade Organization and the Seattle Talks [84]

In 1999, the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle were sidelined by people protesting against the organization and issues of free trade. The case describes the nature of the protests, and the WTO’s dispute resolution process.

Resource: Academic Case

Topics:

Human Rights [12]

Gordon Biersch Vignettes [85]

The case offers a view into day-to-day management issues faced by entrepreneurs managing a growing business. The focus is the Gordon Biersch Brewing Company, which had to address a sexual harassment lawsuit and other ethical dilemmas.

Resource: Academic Case

Topic :

Human Rights [12]

Monitoring Factories Around the Globe: The Fair Labor Association and the Worker Rights Consortium [78]

Two nonprofits, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), were created in 1999 and 2000, respectively, to monitor factories around the world for sweatshop-related infractions. The two organizations had similar goals, but very different histories, strategies, and ways of operating. Their shared history has been controversial and tumultuous.

Resource: Academic Case

Topic :

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Human Rights [12]

Dr. Frances Conley (A): The Resignation, (B): The Return [79]

In 1991, Frances Conley, the first female, tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the United States, resigned from her position at Stanford Medical School over the appointment of a new department chair who was known for sexual harassment. As she becomes thrust into the media limelight, she wonders what she should do next.

Resource: Academic Case

Topic :

Economic Development [50], Human Rights [12], Nonprofit Management [13], Philanthropy, Responsible Investing [80]

Global Fund for Women [81]

The CEO of the Global Fund for Women, an organization that seeds and supports women’s rights groups, must examine how to guide the fund’s growth without having it lose its connections with donors and grantees. She also wonders how the fund could do better at assessing grant outcomes and sharing success stories.

Resource: Academic Case

Topic :

Human Rights [12], Philanthropy, Responsible Investing [80]

The September 11th Fund [82]

The September 11th Fund was created to support the short- and long-term needs of the people and communities affected by the World Trade Center tragedy. Many foundation leaders evaluated the difficult lessons learned in interacting with the media, and wondered how they could better use communication strategies to demonstrate their accountability.

Resource: Academic Case

Topic :

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Human Rights [12]

Mobil in Aceh, Indonesia (A) & (B) [83]

In 1998, the chief executive of Mobil in Indonesia considered how he should respond to allegations that Mobil had been complicit in human rights abuses. The cases reflect on the challenges of managing operations in a place like Aceh.

Resource: Academic Case

Research Papers : All [86]

Topics:

Human Rights [12]

Feminist Theory and Critical Theory: Unexplored Synergies [87]

Although both feminist theory and critical theory focus on social and economic inequalities, and both have an agenda of promoting system change, these fields of inquiry have developed separately and seldom draw on each other's work. This paper argues that synergies between these two fields could, and should, be explored.

Resource: Research Paper

Topics:

Government [54], Human Rights [12]

Protest and Policymaking: Explaining Fluctuation in Congressional Attention to Rights Issues, 1960-1986 [88]

The authors reexamine the relationship between protest and policy change at the agenda-setting stage of policymaking. They find that protest, issue legitimacy, and issue competition account for variation in the number of congressional hearings granted to rights issues.

Resource: Research Paper

Topics:

Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Government [54], Human Rights [12]

Reputation When Threats and Transfers Are Available [89]

The authors present a model where a long-run player uses money transfers and threats to influence the decisions of a sequence of short-run players. The model is useful for the debate around judicial corruption.

Resource: Research Paper

Topics:

Human Rights [12]

Racial Stereotypes Can Be Unconscious but Reversible [90]

Negative stereotypes about various racial groups bombard us every day in the mass media and deposit their residue deep into our minds, often without our realizing it, says Brian Lowery.

Resource: Research Paper

Topics:

Human Rights [12]

Women and Power: Conformity, Resistance, and Disorganized Co-Action [91]

The paper examines micro-processes that undermine the formal power of high-ranking women in a male-dominated organization. It shows how the capacity of these women to reduce systemic causes of gender inequality is therefore more limited than it might appear.

Resource: Research Paper

Courses : All [92]

Topic :

Human Rights [12]

The Quest for Happiness Exploring the Psychology of Human Fulfillment: OB 552 [93]

In this seminar, we explore the nature of human happiness from psychological perspectives, and how such knowledge can be applied in personal and business contexts. To illustrate the ideas discussed, we examine in detail a number of fascinating individuals, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, venture capitalist Tom Perkins, Steven Spielberg, Martha Stewart, and the Nobel physicist Richard Feynman.

Resource: MBA Course

Topic :

Human Rights [12]

Women in Organizations: OB 387 [94]

This course focuses on women's working experiences in managerial and professional positions in business and some nonprofit organizations. Using business cases, small group work, videos, lectures, and class discussions, we examine a wide variety of career-related gender issues.

Resource: MBA Course

Topic :

Human Rights [12]

Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Women: STRAMGT 508 [95]

This seminar will showcase successful women entrepreneurs and the challenges they encountered on the paths to success such as finding funding, dealing with different communication styles, and balancing work and lifestyle.

Seminar participants will study mini-cases, engage in panel discussions and hear from experienced entrepreneurs.

Resource: MBA Course

Innovators : All [96]

Topic :

Arts, Culture, and Religion [44], Corporate Social Responsibility [39], Economic Development [50], Education [97], Human Rights [12], Social Entrepreneurship [27]

An interview with Dave DeForest-Stalls (EPNL '07) [98]