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Using Social Media Needs Focus and Discipline
Beth Kanter recently spoke at the Global CSR Conclave held at the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2010. Brian Pereira met Beth to discuss the approach that enterprises should take to forming social media strategies and policies for its employees
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Reshaping Business Education in a New Era
Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business,
discusses how the expectations of MBA students are changing—and why the
traditional MBA education needs to change as well.
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SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa Losing It on CSR
The article reflects a recent survey conducted on small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs)
in sub-Sahara Africa, paints a gloomy picture of the lack of commitment
on the part of SMEs to initiate a comprehensive Corporate Social
Responsibility Programme in communities in which they operate.
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Why an MBA Oath?
Business schools have become an easy target as the butt of jokes about
the causes of the current economic crisis, says INSEAD professor
Craig Smith. His response to the question, 'why an MBA oath?' is simply: 'Why not?'
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Workplace Challenges: Managing Layoffs, and Motivating Those Left Behind
The current downturn has left many companies scrambling to manage workplace issues -- ranging from how to avoid a brain drain to how they can provide better value to customers and clients. Employees, for their part, face the challenges that arise from working in a leaner organization that demands increased productivity with fewer resources.
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Microfinance's Elusive Quest: Finding an Accurate Measure of Social Impact
For three decades, microfinance institutions have given out small loans to the world's poor -- mostly women -- and amassed hundreds if not thousands of case studies showing that the loans help alleviate poverty, improve health, increase education and promote women's empowerment.
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the
look and functionality of products. Recently, they have begun using
design tools to tackle more complex problems, such as finding ways to
provide low-cost healthcare throughout the world. Businesses were
first to embrace this new approach—called design thinking—now
nonprofits are beginning to adopt it too.
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The Eight Biggest Myths about Sustainability in Business
As a way of helping to get every company on the journey to
sustainability, the publication presents some of the most common myths that have been heard
from otherwise successful companies.
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Corporate Social Responsibility Enters the Strategic Realm
The publication by Jon Bentley represents the results of IBM Global Business Services survey on three information areas related to sustainability: operations, supply chain and costumers.
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What Is Greenwashing?
Unfortunately in this day and age there are companies that mislead
customers by making false claims about a green product or service as an outlet to market and/or sell their product.
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The first book to provide comparable
national profiles
that describe the evolution and practice of CSR for 58 countries
and 5 global regions.
CSR Europe's Toolbox includes information, ideas and advice designed to
help companies and their stakeholders address socio-economic and
environmental challenges and integrate corporate social responsibility
(CSR) into mainstream business practice.
This study provides platform to understand CEO views on the progress, challenges and implications of the journey toward a new era of sustainability.