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Frans Berkhout, Julia Hertin, Jérôme Carlens, Daniel Tyteca, Xander Olsthoorn, Marcus Wagner and Walter Wehrmeyer introduce the findings of an ambitious new cross-industry European research project. Among the conclusions they suggest that firms with Environmental Management Systems may not necessarily be greener than their rivals. In my opinion… Olivia Lister of Abbey National Group offers a finacial services perspective.

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Content: Article | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

This Web site presents the main results of the Measuring Environmental Performance of Industry (MEPI) project co-ordinated by SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex, UK.

The key objectives of this research project were to:
* develop quantitative indicators for the environmental performance of manufacturing firms
* collect environmental and financial data for a large number of … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: MEPI | Subjects: International – Europe, Social Responsibility (ESG)

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Business visionary Stuart Hart thinks multinationals can help people rise out of poverty. And he has a business model to prove it.

Content: Article | Source: Tomorrow | Subjects: Economics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

In the last 40 or 50 years, economics was dominant. In the next 20 or 30 years, social issues will be dominant.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Social Responsibility (ESG), Trends / Analysis

Buying environmentally friendly technology isn’t just for the tree-huggers—it’s for everyone who wants to make a profit.

Content: Article | Author: Meg Mitchell Moore | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

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The first rule of football you teach children is: “Never touch the ball with your hands.” But it seems some corporations in Pakistan forgot that rule when they hired children in their football manufacturing plants. There, it took a corporate agreement to phase out the use of child labour. Professor Olivier Cadot, Professor Daniel Traça and Robert Crawford use the international agreement, hailed as a … [ Read more ]

Content: Case Study | Authors: Daniel Traça, Olivier Cadot, Robert Crawford | Source: INSEAD | Subjects: International, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Today, in the second era of global capitalism, there is a sharper focus on the social and environmental consequences of the operations of large corporations. Unlike the first era when the backlash against big corporations ushered in the development of governmental regulatory bodies, now a kind of ragtag group is springing up to influence corporate behaviour. But despite the positive successes of some crusades, Professor … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ethan Kapstein | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

In April Inc. asked its readers to discuss their companies’ commitment to social responsibilty. View that survey’s results – and find out how you stack up against your peers on a variety of issues, including environmental concerns, workforce diversity, and charitable giving.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Inc.com | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Sure, if caring brings a profit. And businesses are discovering that it pays to be concerned about society.

Content: Article | Author: Geoffrey Colvin | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

This report highlights discrepancies in technology adoption and growth as warnings of a deepening digital divide. For example, between 1998 and 2000, the number of Internet users as a percentage of population increased from 0.1% to 0.4% in sub-Saharan Africa. In the US that percentage jumped from 26.3% to 54.3%. The report also notes that the total international bandwidth for the African continent is less … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | Subjects: International, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Thoughtful managers sometimes face business problems that raise difficult questions. Sometimes these questions are matters of right versus right, not right versus wrong. There are three basic types of right-versus-right problems: those that raise questions about personal integrity and moral identity; conflicts between responsibilities for others and important personal values; and, perhaps the most challenging, those involving responsibilities that a company shares with … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Authors, from the Center for Corporate Community Relations at Boston College, argue that in addition to becoming the investment of choice, a company must become the supplier of choice, the employer of choice and a “neighbor of choice.” Included is an 11-step best-practices blueprint for implementing the neighbor-of-choice strategy

Content: Article | Author: Bradley K. Googins | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility (ESG)

A man’s respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Content: Quotation | Source: Forbes | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Is it crazy for promising venture-backed start-ups to commit time and stock to nonprofits even before making money themselves? Former VC Gib Myers doesn’t think so.

Content: Article | Author: D. M. Osborne | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Nonprofit, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Meet the new breed of socially responsible CEOs. They share the goals of activist pioneers like Body Shop cofounder Anita Roddick and Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen — but are taking radically different approaches to activism.

Content: Article | Author: Thea Singer | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

We do not hear the term ‘compassionate’ applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)