Social Responsibility
Social Responsibility
Many companies fear that adopting environmentally sustainable policies will reduce their profits or that trumpeting their achievements will only invite criticism from environmental activists that they failed to do more...
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,...
Journalists and politicians alike seem to have pinned their hopes for the spread of democracy on the Internet and social media. In contrast, in The Net Delusion, Evgeny Morozov points out that the...
The Great Recession has brought changes and challenges to all sectors of the economy, nonprofits included. Building Strong Nonprofits, edited by John C. Olberding and Lisa Barnwell Williams, is a...
In The New Rules of Green Marketing, Jacquelyn A. Ottman presents the new rules for mastering the marketing of ecologically-responsible consumer goods, as well as real-world examples that illustrate...
The world is changing at lightning speed, and only companies that understand the new realities of the global marketplace and pursue both innovation and sustainability will be equipped to prosper. In The...
Benjamin Franklin advocated living with frugality, inventiveness, and diplomacy. In Doing More with Less, Bruce Piasecki suggests that the solution to many social and business problems lies in those...
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...
As biotechnology has continued to advance, some eagerly anticipate the creation of new intellectual property and a new bioeconomy. On the other hand, some fear that the desire for profit is leading to the unethical...
“Doing well by doing good” has become a common maxim in the business world, yet the data is not clear whether or not corporate social responsibility (CSR) and philanthropy actually produce any measure- able business...
