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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

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.

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The Greening of Wal-Mart

By Erica L. Plambeck & Lyn Denend 5

For much of its history, Wal-Mart’s corporate management team toiled inside its “Bentonville Bubble,” narrowly focused on operational efficiency, growth, and profits. But now the world's largest retailer has widened its sights, building networks of employees, nonprofits, government agencies, and suppliers to “green” its supply chains. Here's how and why the world’s largest retailer is using a network approach to decrease its environmental footprint – and to increase its profitability.

The Myth of CSR

By Deborah Doane 3

The problem with assuming that companies can do well while also doing good is that markets don't really work that way