The 2011 winning cases were selected out of nearly 50 submitted cases from four continents in a double-blind review by the oikos judging committee comprised of distinguished scholars from all around the world. Read the oikos press release
Corporate Sustainability Track - sponsored by oikos Foundation
First prize
Coke in the Cross Hairs: Water, India, and the University of Michigan
Andrew Hoffman and Sarah Howie, University of Michigan, USA
Grace Augustine, University of Oxford, UK
Second prize
Burgerville: Sustainability and Sourcing in a QSR Supply Chain
Darrell Brown, Phil Berko, Patrick Dedrick, Brie Hilliard and Joshua Pfleeger
Portland State University, USA
Third prize
Green Works: The Clorox Company Goes Green
Ashley Nowygrod, Brian Moss, Nathan Springer, Craig Cammarata and Jennifer Gough
University of Michigan, USA
Runner up
Runner up
Social Entrepreneurship Track - sponsored by Ashoka
First prize
Better Place: Shifting Paradigms in the Automotive Industry
Dror Etzion and Jeroen Struben
McGill University, Canada
Second prize
Ndlovu: The clock ticks
Charles Corbett, UCLA Anderson School of Management, USA
Sarang Deo, Kellogg School of Management, USA
Third prize
Tropical Salvage: From Recession to Expansion
R. Scott Marshall, Lisa Peifer and Erin Ferrigno
Portland State University, USA
Runner up
Vodafone M-PESA (A): Turning a corporate social responsibility innovation into a mainstream business opportunity
Loïc Sadoulet and Olivier Furdelle
INSEAD, France
Runner up
How to Establish and Manage a Social Business at the Bottom of the Pyramid - The Case of OSRAM in Africa
Pia Sophie von Nell
WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
For further information on this competition please visit the
oikos foundation website.
