In his excellent and useful guide, Evolving Partnerships: A Guide to Working with Business for Greater Social Change, Jem Bendell says, “The appetite for partnerships appears strong. Over 90% of corporate executives responding to a World Economic Forum survey felt that future ‘partnerships between business, government, and civil society would play either a major role [...]
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Business-Civil Society Partnerships Essential for Greater Social Change
Posted in Book Reviews on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dilemmas in Responsible Investment
Posted in Book Reviews, Responsible Investment on January 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dilemmas in Responsible Investment examines the problems responsible investment (RI) practitioners face daily. It emphasises the importance of asking the right questions as well as getting the right answers; and the importance of process as well as product. The authors pay attention to the diversity of opinion and variety of approaches available. They also raise [...]
Landmarks for Sustainability: Events and Initiatives That Have Changed Our World
Posted in Book Reviews, Sustainability on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The world has been working on sustainable development since at least 1987, when the UN World Commission on Environment and Development published its report, Our Common Future. Since then, however, many of the global challenges (climate change, biodiversity, drinking water availability, urbanisation, to list only a few) are getting worse, rather than better. To support [...]
The Method Method
Posted in Book Reviews, Responsible Business on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leadership for Sustainability: An Action Research Approach
Posted in Book Reviews, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability on November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I rarely read a leadership text from cover to cover, but I found this to be a page turner, reading more like a novel, difficult to put down, and I wondered what each of the short stories would reveal as people have been moved to: “take on the challenges of living courageously in extraordinary times” [...]
Teaching Business Sustainability
Posted in Book Reviews, Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on October 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Businesses today, as never before, are being challenged by the unrelenting and ever-increasing demands to address the concern of a wide range of critical stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, employees and communities. While businesses grow and prosper worldwide and though hundreds have been brought out of abject poverty and deprivation, poverty persists in many parts of [...]
Evolving Partnerships: A Guide to Working with Business for Greater Social Change
Posted in Book Reviews, Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Partnerships can work, but can they work better? This accessible guidebook distils the author’s key learnings on the advanced strategic planning of cross-sectoral partnerships. By bringing together their respective competencies and resources for the greater good, governments, business, civil society and multilateral agencies have been seeking innovative ways to work together to respond to the [...]
Embedded Sustainability: “A roadmap to transform sustainability bandaids into sustainable business”
Posted in Book Reviews, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability on August 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A review by Elaine Cohen Although I didn’t, in many ways, it makes sense to start reading this book at the penultimate chapter, Chapter 9, entitled “The world in 2041.” Now, 2041 is not all that far away, but the description of the fictional young Jake Marstreng attending an interview with “Septad Corp” is as [...]
Embedded Sustainability
Posted in Book Reviews, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In Embedded Sustainability, authors Chris Laszlo and Nadya Zhexembayeva explain and predict how companies can better leverage global challenges for enduring profit and sustained growth. They introduce the marquis concept of embedded sustainability: the incorporation of environmental, health, and social value into the heartbeat of the product life-cycle with no trade-off in price or quality [...]
Leadership for Sustainability
Posted in Book Reviews, Sustainability, Uncategorized on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday 6 June 2011 members of the sustainabilty community gathered at the German Gymnasium in London to celebrate the publication of Leadership for Sustainability: An Action Research Approach. At the heart of the book are the stories of 29 people who are seeking to make the world more environmentally sustainable and socially just, recounting [...]
