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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Our new book explores examples of companies that created measurable, positive impacts for workers and communities in their value chains and distils core components of business model transformation.
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This case study examines HB Antwerp’s innovative business model designed to disrupt the traditionally opaque diamond supply chain.
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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.