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The role of the corporation “is to provide individuals with the means to be socially responsible. Rather than trying to play the role of social worker, senior executives should concentrate on their statutory obligations. We should not expect benevolence of them, but we should demand probity: the socially responsible chief executive is the one who turns a profit without lying, cheating, robbing or defrauding anyone.” … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

This is a penetrating exploration of the challenge of business ethics – free of preachy prescriptions – from three of today’s most influential psychologists. The book, based on a five-year study of multiple professions, examines the kinds of changes that would probably need to occur in business management for ethics-oriented systems to take root.

Content: Book | Authors: Howard E. Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

This research center disseminates information from the “study of pressing global problems stemming from interactions between human activities, natural resources, and the environment.” Abstracts describe research papers in global systems, land use, water, agriculture, ecosystems, human health, science, and policy. Also included are computer models and datasets, an Atlas of the Biosphere, and categorized links.

Content: Online Resource | Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Polish poet Stanislaw Lec asked, “Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?” Elkington applies the question to twenty-first-century capitalism as he ponders whether holding corporations accountable to a “triple bottom-line” of economic prosperity, environmental quality, and social justice constitutes progress. Elkington cofounded SustainAbility, a London consulting firm that advises major corporations on how to be more environmentally sensitive and socially active while prospering … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: John Elkington | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Kennedy argues that the corporate boardroom’s preoccupation with shareholder value has led companies to mortgage their futures for today’s higher stock price. It also created a class of entrepreneurs who, for a brief time, were able to sell companies to a gullible investing public at unsupportable prices. The author offers a host of boardroom reforms, with an eye on making this body more responsive to … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Allan A. Kennedy | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility (ESG)

How an entrepreneur can master the extreme sport of philanthropy while running a growing company.

Content: Article | Author: Elaine Appleton Grant | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

…companies were not designed to be engines of social good. Rather, it was the competition among companies that was designed to be an engine of social good… companies contribute to democratic solutions by remaining capable of creating the wealth shareholders and governments appropriate, not by taking on the responsibilities of governments.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Government, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Most efforts to conflate environmental management with strategy confuse “important” with “strategic.” Environmental management is important, but it is not, in most cases, strategic.

Content: Article | Author: Brad Allenby | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Is corporate America’s love affair with a disease that kills 40,000 women a year good marketing — or bad medicine?

Content: Article | Author: Susan Orenstein | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Social Responsibility (ESG)

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U.K. consultancy SustainAbility claims to have coined the phrase “triple bottom line,” which refers to a framework for measuring and reporting corporate performance against economic, social, and environmental parameters. Its Web site offers an introduction to the concept, along with details on the organization’s efforts to promote it. The site also serves as an international clearinghouse for information and news related to sustainable development.

Registered … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: SustainAbility | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities and their countries.

If you:
– travel to the developing world and find the poverty unconscionable
– do business in Africa or Latin America and want to have a positive impact
– are an … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: TechnoServe | Subjects: International, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Advocates of corporate social responsibility think their time has come, but there are still cynics on all sides. ATB looks at the rise of this phenomenon and the hurdles it still has to face.

Content: Article | Author: A.J. Vogl | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

The world’s economies can grow more secure and more humane if chief executives and boards accept and execute a five-point corporate citizenship agenda.

Editor’s Note: the five points are interesting reading but you may want to just skip the introductory first 2 pages of the article…

Content: Article | Author: Jeffrey E. Garten | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Although the question ‘Does corporate citizenship pay?’ is technically right, it is misleading in practice. Rephrasing the core question as ‘In what ways does corporate citizenship contribute to achieving the core business strategy?’ is far preferable.

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

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A new campaign seeks to establish extended producer responsibility, life-cycle accountability, and clean production within the high-tech industry in the U.S.

Content: Article | Author: Ted Smith | Sources: GreenBiz.com, idsa-sf.org | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG) | Industry: Consumer Electronics

A complete set of tools for applying entrepreneurial strategies and techniques to your nonprofit
As a follow-up to their book Enterprising Nonprofits, the authors of Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs provide a full set of practical tools for putting the lessons of business entrepreneurship to work in your nonprofit. The book offers hands-on guidance that helps social sector leaders hone their entrepreneurial skills and carry … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Frances Hesselbein, J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson, Peter Economy, Steve Roling | Subjects: Nonprofit, Social Responsibility (ESG)

The 21st century will be the century of the social sector organization. The more economy, money, and information become global, the more community will matter. And only the social sector nonprofit organization performs in the community, exploits its opportunities, mobilizes its local resources, and solves its problems. The leadership, competence, and management of the social sector nonprofit organization will thus largely determine the values, the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Nonprofit, Social Responsibility (ESG)

How social and sustainability reporting can make a real difference in changing business performance, impacts, and outcomes.

Content: Article | Author: Simon Zadeck | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility (ESG)