Video – These are the best times for Shared Value: Michael Porter
At the 2014 Shared Value Leadership Summit, Porter outlines the state of the shared value approach and provides a vision for the coming year.
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Colin Powell : CSR for startups and Business Schools
When talking corporate responsibility, who better to spark discussion than someone who was previously helped lead the US?At a CEO summit at Loyola University Chicago’s new Schreiber Center on Tuesday, former secretary of state and retired Army general Colin Powell talked corporate social responsibility with leaders at Baxter, Wintrust, AT&T Illinois, and KPMG. The hour-long …
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Companies with the best CSR Reputations in the world
Yesterday when my colleague Fred signed onto the Google homepage he was met with an invitation to donate to the international migrant crisis. Google would match his contribution dollar for dollar. How could he say no, thought Fred, and he gave $25. Google’s refugee fundraising effort, launched on Sept. 15, has already raised $9 …
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Social Responsibility as a Startup Launchpad
What images come to mind when you think of Tom’s? Perhaps it’s an image of the fashionable espadrille, but for me at least, it’s an image from one of their marketing campaigns: a group of Tom’s employees walking towards the camera in an impoverished community with gifts in hand–the gift of shoes. When Tom’s burst …
The Sustainability Effect
The business case for CSR has been a common sense one. Improving the eco-efficiency and good governance of a business lowers costs, increases revenues, supports employee productivity and retention, and reduces risk.Now, research is digging deeper into data, finding that reputations of companies can be measured and tied to their market values, and that sustainability …