In 2018, China was the world’s largest Internet services market. In addition to the huge size of the market, the comparatively low penetration made the country an immensely attractive market for search engine services. To conquer this market, Google planned to re-enter the Chinese market after exiting the market in 2010 with a censored search …
In 2019, Nike and other brands were accused by the media, human rights activists and organizations, and members of the US government of having potential supply chain links to human rights abuses by the US government. Uighur people in Xinjiang, China. Nike had spent decades building its reputation in the supply chain, building trusted partner …
Shortly after Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader and longtime defender of democracy, was released from lengthy house arrest and elected to the country’s parliament in 2012, intercommunal violence between local Buddhists and Muslims Rohingya escalated in the western state of Rakhine. Over the next five years, the long-persecuted Rohingya minority faced waves of …
Nike and Reebok, the two largest sports shoe manufacturers, rely on contractors in Asia to make their shoes. Sourcing from Asia offers advantages in terms of low cost and flexibility, but raises questions about human rights and corporate responsibility. How Nike and Reebok tackled these issues is at the center of this case.
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In 2007, Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo!, was convicted by US Representative Tom Lantos, chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, for Yahoo’s role in the arrest and detention of the Chinese journalist and defender of democracy Shi Tao. The case describes the actions that Yahoo! In order to expand his business in China, …
Working with Shell’s National Manager for Nigeria, the company’s executive board must decide how to respond to the decision of the Nigerian government, Ken SaroWiwa and eight other leaders of a movement for the rights of the Ogoni (one of the 240 ethnic groups). . At the start of the trial, SaroWiwa and his co-defendants …