Social Responsibility
Social Responsibility
Companies are facing an unavoidable new array of environmentally driven issues. Like any revolution, this new “Green Wave” presents an unprecedented challenge to business as usual. Organizations that do not add...
On the night of April 20, 2010, BP’s Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 people and injuring dozens more. For the next 87 days, millions of barrels of oil from the Macondo...
Faced with a growing marketplace of socially-savvy consumers, tuned-in suppliers and ecological buying practices, many businesses have begun to adopt corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies. In her book,...
Marc J. Epstein’s book Making Sustainability Work is the ultimate “how-to” guide for business leaders who want to control their company’s social, environmental, and economic impacts. Drawing on decades...
Management Reset by Edward E. Lawler III and Christopher G. Worley presents a radical shift to the profit-driven business model that governs most companies. In the past, focusing solely on financial...
Mother Teresa, CEO is not the typical business book. Authors Ruma Bose, a former volunteer with Missionaries of Charity, and her mentor, Lou Faust provide insight for business leaders from an atypical...
Peter Fisk begins his book, People, Planet, Profit, by asserting that in a time of “unprecedented” change in the world, issues concerning the environment and society as a whole carry enormous...
Americans have been led to believe that to decrease their dependency on fossil fuels and stave off climate change, they must transition to green energy: wind, solar, and biofuels. In his book Power Hungry...
The right relationship that people must seek is “between the human economy, and the earth’s commonwealth of life,” write authors Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver in Right Relationship. In the Quaker...
In Small Change, philanthropy and social change expert Michael Edwards describes how philanthrocapitalism, a new initiative based on business practices and market sciences, is a misguided attempt to...
