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The 21st-Century Organization
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paper helps to understand business leaders the implications of potential
regulatory actions for companies and industries.
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When Social Issues Become Strategic
Executives with lingering doubts about the importance of sociopolitical issues to business will surely be convinced by this year's eye-catching McKinsey Quarterly survey on the topic.
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Shaping Strategy from the Boardroom
As companies turn their attention from compliance to
growth and in novation, boards must focus on strategy. US companies,
with the scandals behind them and the new compliance rules mastered,
should devote the next wave of governance reform to using the human
capital of their boards to develop and support corporate strategy.
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What's Wrong with Corporate Social Responsibility
This report explores how CSR has evolved, what corporations get out of it, and what a truly social responsible corporation would look like.
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Climate Policy Post-2012 - a Roadmap: the Global Governance of Climate Change
This report by Herman Ott represents an important contribution to the overall
discussion on climate change and a post-2012 climate regime. It
provides important insights regarding the history of the climate
convention and various negotiating positions. It defines the major
barriers for an effective post-2012 agreement and suggests possible
action to overcome those barriers.
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Competitive Advantage on a Warming Planet
This article offers a systematic approach to mapping and responding to
climate change risks. Climate change affects your company’s competitive landscape in ways you
might not realize. This article shows how to map your risks—and opportunities.
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Global Rule-Setting For Business: a Critical Analysis of Multi-Stakeholder Standards
This article examines multistakeholder
standards compared to other collaborative standards adopted in the past decade,
and focuses subsequently on the peculiarities of multi-stakeholder standards regarding
participation, governance and implementation.
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European SRI Study 2006
The European SRI Study - 2006, analyzes SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) in nine European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom). This study highlites changes, that happened in a SRI market since 2003.
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Evidence-Based Management
The learning objective of the publication is to see how
effective executives gather and evaluate evidence while making
important business decisions--including demanding supporting data from
managers who propose a change and identifying faulty cause-and-effect
reasoning in evidence presented.
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From Kant to Liar’s Poker: History and Business Ethics
The main topics of the presentation are:
- Business and Business Education
- Limited Notion of ‘Business Ethics’
- History’s Role in Forming Good Professionals and Shareholder Value
- What Business Can Realistically Do?
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The European Commission (EC) has developed a "CSR handbook for
small business advisers" which is designed to act as a reference when
making decisions on how to adapt business to current CSR guidelines.
This study analyses the transparency of corporate reporting on a range of anticorruption measures among the 105 largest publicly listed
multinational companies. Together these companies are worth more than US$11 trillion and touch the lives of people in countries across the globe, wielding enormous and far reaching power.