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Making Supply Chains Socially Responsible - Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility

Companies around the world are trying to figure out how to evaluate their performance—as well as that of their suppliers—on a host of corporate social responsibility (CSR) dimensions in areas such as diversity, community development, and environmental issues. How can CSR influence business initiatives and the value of CSR efforts be measured? In this panel discussion, Stanford 2007 Responsible Supply Chains Conference panelists share lessons and resources.

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Lawrence Jackson - Environmental Sustainability for Cheap

For Wal-Mart, social responsibility includes keeping products affordable to the millions of low- and middle-income consumers who form the bulk of its customer base. In this University podcast, Lawrence Jackson, former Wal-Mart president,  brings the perspectives of someone who grew up in inner city Washington, D.C., to ask a Stanford audience at the 2007 Responsible Supply Chains Conference whether pushing for social and environmental responsibility in business is a racially and economically segregated movement.

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Harnessing Purity and Pragmatism

By Alana Conner & Keith Epstein 1

As the wall between the nonprofit and corporate worlds crumbles, many social change organizations are asking themselves: Do we stick to our activist guns, or do we cross the divide and work with business? Research suggests that social movements need both kinds of organizations to make the changes they seek.

Review: What Matters Most

Review By Sheila Kaplan

The authors offer an inside view of corporate social responsibility at work.

Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance Lynn Sharp Paine
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Value Shift

Review By Perla Ni

The author has penned an engaging book that unravels the complicated issues surrounding business ethics.

Spring 2003

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Faith in Fair Trade

By Kathryn Wolford & Lisa Bonds 1

How Lutherans are transforming their love of coffee into global good.