Consider these: A firm publicises its efforts on corporate social responsibility. Another boasts of the amount of training it provides employees. Your child says she spent hours preparing for an exam. An educational institution highlights the number of attendees at a conference. The government emphasises resources allocated for a social initiative. What’s common to all …
With operations scattered around the globe, the modern corporation is a different animal from its predecessors. Yet the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has not changed much over the years. As a result, just as stakeholders are holding corporations more responsible for their actions, corporations understand their responsibilities to stakeholders even less. To resolve …
Corporate-NGO partnerships are no longer based purely on a financial transaction as companies are using their differing skills and resources to work towards shared objectives and values, say experts. 1. A successful partnership depends on a shared goal It is worth investing time in identifying where the common self-interest lies before proceeding. Adam Heuman, …
A short film by Oscar winner Megan Mylan on how to reduce poverty by making the adolescent girls skilled to grow vegetables and market them
Drawing on more than 2,500 interviews with business leaders in 34 economies, this report from Grant Thornton and UNICEF looks at what companies are doing to make their operations more sustainable and why, and considers the role integrated reporting can play in improving transparency and decision making. In this latest iteration, cost management and …
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