Case Studies
Preparing future leaders to manage human rights challenges in business requires new teaching tools. We translate our research insights from our workstreams into teaching tools. The case teaching method is well-established in business school teaching and we invite companies to work with us to develop teaching case studies. In these case studies we highlight how companies are working towards aligning profits and principles.
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The case study highlights the need for companies to support the formalization of artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to address human rights abuses and ensure a just energy transition.
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This case study analyzes a transformational business model for sourcing natural rubber, developed by the French sneaker company Veja.
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This Financial Times’ caselet authored by Michael Posner (NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights) and Dorothee Baumann-Pauly focuses on the human rights challenges in the cobalt supply chain.
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This case study describes and discusses the approach that ABN AMRO has adopted in its relationships with clients who are associated with the palm oil sector.
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The microsimulation of “Mercurtrade Cobalt” was created in the context of the Global Business School Network (GBSN) faculty challenge 2020. It is a fictitious case scenario that is based on insights from our research on responsible cobalt sourcing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.