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What can business do to improve social welfare? In fact, we don’t know because too little study has been given the issue, argues HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues.

Content: Article | Author: Manda Salls | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

This article examines the phenomenon of white entrepreneurs and business owners operating in central city locations. The authors’ suggestion: social brokers – institutions and individuals that can bridge the gaps between minority neighborhoods and non-minority business people – can help facilitate growth, profits, and development.

Content: Article | Authors: Gregory B. Fairchild, Jeffrey A. Robinson | Source: STERNbusiness (NYU) | Subjects: Demographics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Electronics waste — and the regulation of it — is growing globally. Here’s a look at some efforts designed to curb our expanding waste.

Content: Article | Author: Michele Raymond | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subjects: Legal, Social Responsibility (ESG)

The Corporate Social Responsibility Program promotes corporate responsibility by engaging publicly held companies to adopt more progressive social and environmental policies – using the power of ownership to promote positive change. We engage in dialogue with selected companies, file shareholder resolutions, build coalitions, and conduct shareholder solicitation and media initiatives to raise awareness and promote more responsible corporate behavior.

Content: Online Resource | Source: As You Sow | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Since 1996, former U.C. Berkeley finance professor and Wall Street trader Mark Latham has offered the Vancouver-based Corporate Monitoring Project as a kind of Internet samizdat at which he posts dissident shareholder resolutions excluded from proxy material sent to investors.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Mark Latham | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility (ESG)

“The large, publicly owned corporation is, nominally, a representative democracy. But power in most corporations lies everywhere but in the hands of the people. For decades, the shareholders of big U.S. companies have resembled the pre-Revolutionary American colonists, who labored under an indifferent ruling class that looted the people’s wealth and that left them few lawful means of redress. Today, citizen shareholders vote for referenda … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: James Krohe Jr. | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility (ESG)

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling new book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the most significant dimension of the twentieth century: its environmental history. To a degree unprecedented in human history, we have refashioned … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: John Robert McNeill, Paul Kennedy | Subjects: History, Social Responsibility (ESG)

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The largest market in the world does not show up on most corporations’ radar screen. Odds are, it doesn’t make an appearance on yours either.

With 6.3 billion people in the world, less than 40% are tapped as markets for the vast bulk of goods and services offered by today’s corporations. These unseen four billion consumers represent the base of the global economic pyramid.

Content: Article | Author: Medard Gabel | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subjects: Social Responsibility (ESG), Strategy

How Baxter International’s chief Harry Kraemer learned to stop worrying and love sustainability.

Content: Article | Author: Bill Birchard | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: People, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Last November, green-business insiders converged on Los Angeles for Business for Social Responsibility’s 2003 conference, titled “Building and Sustaining Solutions.” The following is an excerpt from the keynote address by Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, which offered up an inspiring view of the Big Picture without losing sight of the real triumphs and challenges down on the production floor.

Content: Article | Author: Carly Fiorina | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Remediation programs have historically given companies little satisfaction while costing them millions. Leading companies today, however, are finding ways to gain increased control over their remediation programs and greater value from their expenditures. These programs go beyond the largely reactive approaches of the past to build longterm company value by emphasizing a business focus and strategic action. They achieve consensus for realistic solutions through better … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David E. Langseth, Robert N. Lambe | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

You are about to meet 20 organizations that are in the business of changing expectations. They reshape reality – so that poor kids can attend college, so that people in the destitute corners of the world can get better health care, so that victims of human-rights abuses can be heard. Most of us see the world’s most daunting problems as impossible challenges. But these groups … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Cheryl Dahle | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility (ESG)

A look at the profound implications of accelerating globalization for our planet’s health, and a prescription for the action necessary to cope with this challenge.
Our world is shrinking fast: goods, money, microbes, pollution, people, and ideas are crossing borders with growing ease. National governments are ill-suited for tackling the problems that result, from climate change, to the soaring trade in limited resource commodities like … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Hilary French | Subjects: International, Social Responsibility (ESG)

With the Kyoto Protocol faltering, global trade may hold the key to a comprehensive climate change agreement.

Content: Article | Author: Kumar Venkat | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

In this golden age of investment returns, we often think of corporate performance one way: Did it make enough money, or didn’t it? But corporations themselves have stopped viewing performance by this one measure, according to Epstein, a long-time researcher, and Birchard, a financial journalist. Instead, companies view the bottom line a number of ways: customer loyalty, employee retention, and shareholder value. The pivot point … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Bill Birchard, Marc J. Epstein | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

In the third issue of EBF (autumn 2000) the question was posed: Will the internet encourage more responsible business? The debate provoked interest not just because of the ‘new’ economy angle but because Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) slowly seems to be moving from the periphery of corporate strategy into mainstream European thinking. Here EBF publishes more contributions to that debate. Valérie Swaen and Isabelle Maignan … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: International – Europe, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Social responsibility can be a difficult concept to get your arms around, so it helps to see how other companies and nonprofits approach the challenge. The CSR Newswire offers links to news accounts and PR statements on the good deeds announced by companies to further social and environmental goals. Of course, if you want to get the word out about your own efforts, releases can … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: SRI World Group | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

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