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Increase Revenues with CSR
TweetAugust 14, 2013TweetIn recent years a lot has been said of the strategic virtues of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in terms of its contributions to cost savings and risk management. This...
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Impact Investing, Soros-Style
TweetAugust 14, 2013Tweet“What I really deal with is venture capital without the returns,” Stewart Paperin tells the audience at INSEAD’s Entrepreneurial Forum in Fontainebleau recently. Paperin is...
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Donating Medicines Through Broken Supply Chains
October 1, 2013TweetTweetThere are many challenges for large pharmaceutical manufacturers looking to make medicine donations to developing countries. Despite a strong basis in corporate social...
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Improving Pandemic Preparedness
October 2, 2013TweetTweetSeasonal influenza outbreaks kill between 300,000 and 500,000 people every year and cost hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare and days off work.Vaccination programmes...
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Impact Investing: Unleashing Institutional Capital
October 16, 2013TweetTweetThe ability of impact investing to earn both a financial and social return is appealing, all the more so in light of the excesses of finance over the last decade. But taking...
View Article"We are nice too": How Firms Deal With Problems
A famous firm has a business built on the principles of a good natural environment, community development and affordable housing, and engagement and philanthropy in society. It is the sponsor of...
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CSR as a Quality Enabler
November 7, 2013TweetTweetIn earlier years, when powerful companies in the Northern hemisphere bought coffee or cocoa from small farmers in the South, they demanded low prices and threatened to buy...
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The Poor Judge Others More Harshly
As income gaps continue to widen around the world, with a growing share of wealth concentrated in the hands of the top one percent, there is mounting discontent among those with less. Faced with...
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Creating a Socially Responsible Supply Chain
February 19, 2014TweetTweetFirms around the world, particularly those in the garment, food and electrical sectors, have come to realise that their supply chains’ policy and processes say a lot about...
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iSpy Denial: Be Seen to Do the Right Thing
The news on the activities of National Security Agency (NSA) includes a story that has been overlooked by many: there is a leaked document about a piece of spyware called "DROPOUTJEEP", which makes an...
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The Moral Responsibility of Firms: A Legal View
March 21, 2014TweetTweetJPMorgan Chase, the embattled U.S. investment bank seems to face scandals and investigations around every corner. On the face of it, the bank’s decision to settle many of the...
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The Unemotional Corporation
March 21, 2014TweetTweetCorporations are monsters – not in the sense that they are hell-bent on evil but in the sense that they lack certain capacities that are the hallmarks of our humanity. In...
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Corporations Are Not People Too
March 21, 2014TweetTweetDuring the 2012 presidential race republican nominee Mitt Romney became known for saying that “corporations are people too”. In a strictly legal sense this is uncontroversial....
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The Moral Responsibility of Firms: For or Against?
March 21, 2014TweetTweetThe post-financial crisis world is becoming a more business-critical one. There are unprecedented levels of scrutiny of large corporations and their actions and those who fall...
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Modern-Day Slavery: Motivating Business to Act
May 23, 2014TweetTweetAs many as 27 million people around the world are currently victims of forced labour, human trafficking, and other forms of modern-day slavery, according to the “Trafficking in...
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Will tough new anti-corruption laws affect your company?
June 16, 2014TweetTweetIn January 2014 the U.S.’s largest aluminium producer, Alcoa, agreed to pay $384 million to resolve charges it failed to prevent the payments of bribes and kickbacks to Bahrain...
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Achieving Sustainability: The Stick or the Carrot?
The climate change phenomena presents robust evidence that businesses are failing to manage resources in a sustainable manner. In today’s market, corporate decision-makers tend to externalise...
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How Genuinely Authentic Are You?
This article follows on from and goes hand in hand with my last article.Genuine authenticity is not restricted only to when you are in conversation with your boss or your clients, or aiming to secure...
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The Five Dimensions of Responsible Leadership
November 11, 2014TweetTweetSince the 2008 financial crisis, the global chorus of voices questioning capitalism has grown steadily louder. It is difficult indeed to reconcile neoliberal optimism about...
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Should Business Schools Peddle Shareholder Value Maximisation?
December 1, 2014TweetTweetEducational and professional institutions have significant influence in setting norms for legitimate organisational practices. In this sense, business schools play an...
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