Do you have a car pool at work? Car-sharing revenues in North America have been predicted to reach $3.3 billion by 2016. There are many start-ups in this field, including Zipcar, which floated last year for $174 million. Enabling the more efficient exchange and sharing of products and services, in order to increase human well-being [...]
Archive for the ‘Corporate Responsibility’ Category
Collaborative Consumption and Beyond
Posted in Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability on May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Why Your Company Should Occupy Wall Street
Posted in Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Special Offers on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ten years ago, the very first issue of Ethical Corporation magazine showed a picture of anti-globalisation protesters in Genoa on its front cover. The caption read “Would you like this to happen outside your HQ?” The argument was that companies needed to be more responsible to avoid attack. Today, to point to social unrest as [...]
Corporate Governance at the Crossroads
Posted in Cities, Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why the rise of China’s and India’s mid-sized cities is a conundrum for the green economy movement When archaeologists recently announced they had just discovered the ape-like remains of our primitive ancestors in South Africa it was hailed as homo sapiens’ “missing link” – the genetic bridge between modern humans and our older less evolved [...]
For a Market Culture Beyond Greed and Fear
Posted in Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, Marketing, Responsible Business, Uncategorized on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Occupy Wall Street protests across the world have revived interest in sifting “good capitalism” from “bad capitalism”. Ever since the financial meltdown of 2008, proponents of market capitalism have been trying to find ways to re-legitimise their creed. Now they fear that a wave of global discontent might overwhelm the only economic system that really [...]
Focus on Consumer Self-Interest to Win Today’s Green Customer
Posted in Corporate Responsibility, Marketing, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t forget that customers are motivated by getting good products at bargain prices. Sustainability is an add-on. If your green ads showcase the now tiresome images of babies, daisies, and planets, your messages will likely be irrelevant to mainstream consumers. Eco-imagery may have tugged at the purse-strings of “deep green” consumers, but their lighter green [...]
The Map of Meaning: A Guide to Sustaining our Humanity in the World of Work
Posted in Corporate Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Organisational Learning, Responsible Business, Special Offers, Uncategorized on October 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This book introduces a ‘Map of Meaning’ called the Holistic Development Model, which provides a clear, simple and profound framework of the dimensions and process of living and working meaningfully. At an individual level this book helps people to define and stay in contact with what is most important to them as they grapple with [...]
Local Content in Procurement: Creating Local Jobs and Competitive Domestic Industries in Supply Chains
Posted in Corporate Responsibility, CSR, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The launch party for Local Content in Procurement was held on Tuesday 27 September at the Bloomsbury Hotel, London. Local Content in Procurement is the first book of its kind. Recognising the substantial economic and social value brought to host countries and local communities through the procurement practices of large private and public companies, this [...]
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 [...]
Why Small Businesses Should Be Adding More Green Jobs
Posted in Corporate Reporting, Corporate Responsibility, Responsible Business, Sustainability, Uncategorized on October 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The U.S. economy is now the same size that it was before the 2007 recession, and yet we have 7 million fewer jobs. The latest data from the Department of Labor suggests that zero job growth is here to stay well into 2012. As conversations across the nation shift from how to create economic growth [...]
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 [...]
