26.03.2013
by Bill Valentino, China Institute of Social Responsibility Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/GNCC_CSR/valentino-a-mindset-for-csr-and-sustainable-development-in-china-2012 Thumbnail: Embed: A mindset for CSR and Sustainable Development in China (2012) from GNCC_CSR
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16. January 2013 | 0 Comments
“One word of truth outweighs the whole world.” Those words, from the Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Prize speech, resonated with me back in the early 1970s as a teenager with an emerging political consciousness. Indeed, geek that I was, I learnt the entire speech by heart! Network: Global Network for Corporate Citizenship [more]
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06. November 2012 | 0 Comments
Just back from the annual Asian CSR Forum (AFCSR) in Bangkok. As with last year's event in Manila, the sense of dynamism and optimism about the future, that one experiences in Asia Nowadays, was palpable - particularly by contrast to a more sclerotic European scene. Years ago, I used to head regularly to the USA to get a top-up of "can-do"spirit. Today, I head east! Network: Global Network for Corporate Citizenship [more]
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19. October 2012 | 0 Comments
I shared a platform with Baroness Susan Greenfield, the scientist and broadcaster, in Belfast on October 17th, for Business in the Community Northern Ireland Responsible Business conference. Susan gave a fifteen minute master class on the brain, how it adapts and is adapting. Network: Global Network for Corporate Citizenship [more]
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04. October 2011 | 2 Comments
By Bradley Googins and Philip Mirvis It is hard to believe that by adding or dropping an “s” in the word value that the whole meaning changes. The business world is abuzz with the proposal by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer that business “redefine capitalism” by producing products and services that are good for profits and for people and the planet. The idea is not theirs alone--Jed Emerson called it “blended value” several years prior and we spoke of it in the “socio-commercial” business models of GE, Unilever, IBM, and other firms in our book Beyond Good Company. But the term “shared value” has received the imprimatur of the Harvard Business Review, so let’s stick with it. Network: Global Network for Corporate Citizenship [more]