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“TOMS Shoes: Why Buy One, Give One Companies Don’t Help Anyone,” TruTV, September 25, 2015 (4 min).
https://youtu.be/hX0g66MWbrk

Description: This video is a good example of why for-profit firms create more value than charitable organizations and, as such, why philanthropy is not a central part of strategic CSR.

Case Study: Supply Chain

“Planet Money Makes a T-shirt,” NPR Planet Money, May 28, 2014.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/01/246744370/planet-money-makes-a-t-shirt

Description: An insightful look at the supply chain of a plain t-shirt. It is much more complicated than we think.

All six videos are also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp-wXwmbv3z8aAJrhyttiqPMiKy0WVJym
Other Planet Money videos/radio broadcasts are here: https://www.npr.org/series/135379435/planet-money-featured-posts

“Creation of the Perception of Scarcity Where Nothing Exists” by Bill McDonough, GreenBiz, February 15, 2018 (10.5 min).
https://www.greenbiz.com/video/bill-mcdonough-creation-perception-scarcity-where-nothing-exists

Description: A discussion around artificial scarcity in the global supply chain. Also relevant for a discussion in class about waste.

“The Starbucks Story,” Source Drop, April 5, 2017 (45 min).
https://youtu.be/ILvfnkmp-9c

Description: A look at the rapid rise of one of the world’s most important and influential companies.

“Starbucks Unfiltered,” Luc Hermann and Gilles Bovon (trailer, 3 min).
https://www.pltv.fr/en/starbucks-unfiltered/

Description: An update on the history and influence of Starbucks today.

“Can Garment Factories Pay a Living Wage and Still Compete in the Global Economy?” PBS Newshour, February 18, 2014 (8 min).
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/can-garment-factories-pay-living-wage-still-compete

Description: “At $3 an hour, the workers at the Alta Gracia garment factory in the Dominican Republic are earning enough to feed a family of five. But after three years, this new, living wage–based business model has yet to turn a profit as global competition has pushed thousands of jobs to lower-cost countries. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.”

“Fashion,” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO, April 26, 2015 (17 min).
https://youtu.be/VdLf4fihP78

Description: A look at the supply chain of the fashion industry.

Caution: This is a comedy program and involves strong language.