29 Books found for subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Management experts Lawler and Worley (authors of the bestselling Built to Change) have developed a set of management principles that enable organizations to be both successful and responsible. Existing command & control and high-involvement management styles depend too much on stable conditions and focus too narrowly on economic outcomes. They convincingly argue that we need to “reset” our approach to management to one that fits … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Christopher G. Worley, Edward E. Lawler III | Subjects: Management, Social Responsibility (ESG)

British journalist Jeffreys (Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug) presents a compelling account of the comprehensive collaboration of Germany’s major chemical conglomerate with Adolf Hitler’s genocidal dictatorship. The fourth largest industrial concern in the world, IG Farben was a key element of German foreign policy. Its employees were well treated. Its scientists won Nobel prizes. Its administrators created an international network controlling the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Diarmuid Jeffreys | Subjects: Ethics, History, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Rakesh Khurana | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG) | Industry: Education / Training

Activists often find it easier and faster to influence corporate behavior than craft legislation. But such company-focused efforts may be shortsighted and unlikely to stick, argues David Vogel. As he explains in his book, The Market for Virtue, lasting social change needs a combination of solid governmental support and committed corporate action.

Vogel, a professor of business ethics at the Haas School of Business and a … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David Vogel | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

The suddenly hot topic of corporate governance is further deepened in this title, a collection of columns on business ethics first published in The New York Times. The broad categories tackled here include corporate ethics, policies, hiring, bosses, privacy, “lying, cheating, and stealing,” and leading by example. The strength in this collection is the real-word examples, bolstered by interviews with people involved in an issue … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Jeffrey Seglin | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

The world’s most exciting, fastest-growing new market? It’s where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world’s billions of poor people have immense entrepreneurial capabilities and buying power. You can learn how to serve them and help millions of the world’s poorest people escape poverty.

It is being done-profitably. Whether you’re a business leader or an anti-poverty activist, business guru Prahalad … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: C.K. Prahalad | Subjects: Social Responsibility (ESG), Strategy

Journalist Bornstein (The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank) profiles nine indomitable champions of social change who developed innovative ways to address needs they saw around them in places as distinct as Bombay, India; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and inner-city Washington, D.C. As these nine grew influential when their ingenious ideas proved ever more widely successful, they came to the attention … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David Bornstein | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Building Tomorrow’s Company is about a new and revolutionary phase in market-based capitalism–the ‘inclusive’ approach to business. The inclusive approach is about balancing short-term priorities (profitability) with sustainability, corporate social responsibility and environmental accountability. The basic message is that if businesses are to succeed–indeed to survive–in the 21st century, they must take into account the social and environmental consequences of their activities. Packed with the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Philip Sadler | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

With a focus on corporate governance and business ethics, this timely book covers the evolution of socially responsible investing over time and around the world. Author Russell Sparkes is a U.K.-based authority with a bird’s eye view on the global perspective. Chapters cover Britain’s historic 2001 SRI regulations, as well as what Japan and Europe at large are doing in the field of SRI. Interestingly, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Russell Sparkes | Subjects: Finance, Social Responsibility (ESG) | Industry: Investing

If you want your business to thrive, you’d better start paying attention to its values. Jeffrey Hollender, CEO of Seventh Generation, a brand of environmentally safe household products, and Stephen Fenichell, a professional writer, see harbingers for change in the way some companies do business. Religious and business leaders embroiled in scandal, networked global awareness, and an expectation of transparency that embeds reporters with soldiers … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Jeffrey Hollender, Stephen Fenichell | Subject: 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)

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)

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)

Harvard Business School professor Lynn Sharp Paine had been studying corporate malfeasance long before the Enron debacle. In this book she attempts to introduce readers to an “emerging new standard of corporate performance one that encompasses both moral and financial dimensions.” Based on her researching, teaching and consulting experiences over the past 20 years, Paine has amassed an in-depth understanding of corporate values. She uses … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Lynn Sharp Paine | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Journalist Batstone says “…a corporation has the potential to act with soul when it puts its resources at the service of the people it employs and the public it serves.” Toward that end, he proposes and describes a grab bag of corporate values: alignment of leadership and stakeholders, transparency, local and global citizenship, customer and employee care, environmental responsibility, and commitment to human equality and … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David Batstone | Subjects: Management, Social Responsibility (ESG)

“In an era when “dark, satanic mills” were the norm, Owen took young children out of his Scottish factory and put them in a school he funded. He invented day care, unemployment insurance, contributory sickness and retirement plans, and a credit union. He reduced his employees’ workdays from 13 to 10 hours, gave them job security during recessions, and established their right to appeal supervisors’ … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Gregory Claeys, Robert Owen | Subjects: History, 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)

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)

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)