Q&A With Tim Mohin

Tim Mohin, director of corporate responsibility for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), thinks business and the environment can be harmonious pursuits. His decades-long-and-counting career is a case in point. Before AMD, he spent 10 years in government shoring up air-quality protections, then he led sustainability efforts at Intel and Apple. Along the way, the corporate sustainability [...]

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SEE Change: Making the Transition to a Sustainable Enterprise Economy

The premise behind the book is that there is a bubbling up of change that’s coming in our economy. We see massive crises out there in the world and among those crises are the climate change crisis and the sustainability crisis. Sandra Waddock, co-auhtor of SEE Change SEE Change is a book about the myriad [...]

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Congratulations to Sandra Waddock!

It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Greenleaf author Sandra Waddock whose book The Difference Makers: How Social and Institutional Entrepreneurs Created the Corporate Responsibility Movement has won the 2011 Social Issues in Management Book Prize. The award, made at an evening reception on August 15 at the Academy of Management Conference in San [...]

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5 Questions for… Veronica Scheubel

Having co-authored, with Nick Lakin, the 7th entry on the Cambridge University Sustainability Leadership Programme’s top sustainability books of 2010, together with over 10 years of hands-on business practice and consulting experience, Veronica Scheubel, former Senior Corporate Responsibility Manager at Nokia, is a superstar amongst experts in how to mastermind and execute ways for businesses [...]

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5 Questions for… Deborah Leipziger

1. What was your inspiration for writing The Corporate Responsibility Code Book and what do you hope the book achieves or changes? I wrote The Corporate Responsibility Code Book to bring clarity and focus to the chaotic field of guidelines and standards. I found I needed such a reference. My clients were constantly asking me [...]

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5 Questions for… Sandra Waddock

1. What was your inspiration for writing SEE Change and what do you hope the book achieves or changes? Both Malcolm and I have been long-term observers of the corporate responsibility movement and have watched in some degree of wonder as it has taken hold, with initiatives like the UN Global Compact (UNGC) and Global [...]

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5 Questions for… Malcolm McIntosh

On the release of SEE Change, we put our ’5 questions’ to Malcolm McIntosh. 1. What was your inspiration for writing SEE Change and what do you hope the book achieves or changes? In SEE Change: Making the Transition to the Sustainable Enterprise Economy Sandra Waddock and I first put the case for a necessary [...]

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5 Questions for… Philip Monaghan

In the first of our ‘An Interview with an Author’ series, we ask Philip Monaghan five simple questions about his latest book, his extensive work in sustainability and his life as a published author. ANY_ITEM_HERE 1. What was your inspiration for writing Sustainability in Austerity and what do you hope the book achieves or changes? [...]

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Corporate Social Opportunity 7 Years On

We caught up with David Grayson to see what he is currently working on and how the world of CSR has progressed in the last 7 years “Scarily, it is almost seven years since Adrian Hodges and I published Corporate Social Opportunity. Since then, many more companies have started to appreciate the business opportunities, as [...]

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