Achieving a New Global Corporate Consciousness
A look at the 2013 Global Corporate Sustainability Report and the progress of companies around the world to incorporate responsible practices into their strategies.
Socially Responsible Business Innovative, ethical, and community-minded business practices
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Facebook’s Shared Value Status: It’s Complicated
Facebook and Google may be the new poster children for shared value, but is Internet access a critical social issue?
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Supply Chain Environmental Sustainability, Responsible Corporate Citizenship
Employing social enterprise to improve packaging, Coca-Cola uses renewable resources and recycling projects to enhance environmental sustainability and international development.
Donations on Tap
At a "philanthropub," a new kind of bar and restaurant, a portion of each patron's bill goes to a worthy cause.
Honing Talent Through Sustainability
Three things companies can do to improve their sustainability agenda to attract talent and improve employee productivity.
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The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
The Truth About Ben and Jerry’s
Contrary to myth, the sale of Ben & Jerry’s to corporate giant Unilever wasn’t legally required.
The Greening of Wal-Mart
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
The problem with assuming that companies can do well while also doing good is that markets don't really work that way
Capitalizing on Convergence
Nonprofits and businesses are converging - in the value they create, the stakeholders they manage, the organizations they form, and the financial instruments they use.