Value Shift
The author has penned an engaging book that unravels the complicated issues surrounding business ethics.
Review
Business - Articles
Innovative ways to enhance corporate social responsibility (more)
Podcast
Dennis Macray - Social Responsibility and International Coffee
Starbucks has taken environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility seriously in its work with coffee farmers. In this audio lecture, Dennis Macray discusses how the United States' leading coffee retailer is reshaping its business practices and reinventing the international coffee trade.
Podcast
Yvon Chouinard - Corporate Social Responsibility and Profits
Patagonia has found corporate social responsibility to be a profitable strategy. In this audio lecture, Yvon Chouinard, founder, offers a slew of counterintuitive business tips on how to save the environment while making money. This self-proclaimed "reluctant business man" reveals himself to be a business visionary.
Wallflowers Grow the Tallest
Enterprising orgs fare better on the fringes of nonprofit networks.
The Crown Weighs Heavily on the Eyelids
Why the powerful have a hard time taking other people’s perspectives.
Review
Review: Capitalism 3.0
A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons.
Podcast
Alex Counts - Microfinance: Controversies and Promises
Microfinance is bringing the world's poor the kind of service that used to be reserved for bank customers in developed countries. Drawing on the work and philosophy of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, Alex Counts talks in this audio lecture about microfinance's social and financial impact to an audience of Stanford MBA students.
Podcast
Andrew Ruben and Jib Ellison - Promoting Environmental Sustainability
In 2005, Wal-Mart's CEO announced a corporation-wide environmental sustainability initiative to go green. The company would take drastic measures to cut down on waste, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions, thus generating savings that would be passed on to the customer. Andrew Ruben, who spearheads the effort supported by consultant Jib Ellison, explains to a Stanford MBA audience in this University podcast why Wal-Mart is engaging in sustainability.
Faith in Fair Trade
How Lutherans are transforming their love of coffee into global good.
Green Fire
A Chilean firewood certification program spares both the air and indigenous business.