Business owners like to think they make a difference through corporate social responsibility (CSR), but according to Luke Baylis, SumoSalad’s CEO, it means nothing if you don’t actually believe in that responsibility. Trying to find a social stance to get behind can be difficult for a business, but doing so can do wonders for marketing, …
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Companies need to reconsider their current approach to Corporate Social Responsibility and move from a company-centric CSR to true employee engagement, writes FrontStream president and CEO Bill Wood. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has slowly been gaining traction in the US and Australia for the past five to 10 years.
The MD & CEO of ICICI Bank, Chanda Kochhar, was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Global Corporate Citizenship from the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC last week. According to a media release by ICICI, the award was conferred on Kochhar for demonstrating a commitment to the common good – beyond the bottom line. …
April marks the third anniversary of India’s corporate social responsibility law, which requires that corporations above a defined level of financials spend 2% of their profits on CSR programmes. While charity has traditionally been an integral part of the Indian ethos, strategic philanthropy is still a field under formation, Jeri Eckhart-Queenan and Pritha Venkatachalam, …
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Government has very important role through regulatory framework, the sector needs a paradigm shift in the way different stakeholders of the industry, including private and public companies think. India is one of the fastest developing economies and one among its many virtues lie in its demographic strength.
