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'The Business of Jobs' – IBLF's Forum on Employability and Enterprise

‘The Business of Jobs’ – IBLF’s Forum on Employability and Enterprise from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. On 3rd November 2009, IBLF hosted its first global forum on the theme of Jobs, Employability and Enterprise Development in London. The event saw 40 CEOs, managers and directors from top-level businesses and NGOs discuss and debate on […]

‘The Business of Jobs’ – IBLF’s Forum on Employability and Enterprise

‘The Business of Jobs’ – IBLF’s Forum on Employability and Enterprise from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. On 3rd November 2009, IBLF hosted its first global forum on the theme of Jobs, Employability and Enterprise Development in London. The event saw 40 CEOs, managers and directors from top-level businesses and NGOs discuss and debate on […]

A Guide to Useful CR/Sustainability ‘How to Embed CR’ Guides

The Cranfield School of Management is committed to improving the practice of management – which is why so much of the school’s work is in executive education, and particularly in customised, in-company programmes. Busy managers with no shortage of competing demands to “fill the unforgiving minute” need well-researched and practical syntheses of “how-to.” This is […]

The Who and Why of Finding your Head of Corporate Responsibility

Odgers believes in ethical business. We aim to be ethical in all our business dealings; to be a good employer; and to be a business partner for the long term. In recent years we have seen many clients specifying that they are looking for candidates who understand broader societal issues and how these impact on […]

A Road Map to Meaningful Engagement

This guide aims to provide you with an understanding of, and practical tips for, successful stakeholder engagement. We focus particularly on engaging communities, NGOs and wider civil society. It is written by a Doughty Centre Associate Neil Jeffery who has had extensive experience as an NGO campaigner and director; and more recently, as an adviser […]

Corporate Responsibility and the Recession: Learning from Responsible Businesses

The idea for this paper emerged after we received several phone calls from journalists asking what we thought the recession would mean for corporate responsibility and sustainability. Sir Stuart Rose – the executive chairman of Marks and Spencer gave his view in his 2008 Cranfield Lecture when he said: “Climate change won’t slow down just […]

Corporate Responsibility and the Media

I’m delighted that David Grayson invited me to write the foreword to this excellent and timely paper on the media and corporate responsibility. There is very often a conspiracy of silence within the media on their own ethics. This debate is particularly relevant, given the Guardian’s current public investigation of ethics at the News of […]

Corporate strategy and inadequate governance: The pitfalls of CSR

Corporate social responsibility programs can boost a company’s reputation, strengthen the license to operate and help create market advantages, but there are risks that CSR can undermine good governance in less developed countries where business takes on roles beyond their core competencies.

Measuring Business Value and Sustainability Performance

I would like to acknowledge the support of Professor David Grayson of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility and of Dr Lance Moir, previously of Cranfield School of Management and now CFO at WIN plc., who directed the research for this paper. Their contributions from reviewing this paper, along with those from EABIS, provided useful […]

2009 Series: Assessing impacts of business on development: what do alternative frameworks offer?

On 12 May 2009, Business Action for Africa convened an event with the Overseas Development Institute and the UK Department for International entitled. “Assessing impacts of business on development: what do alternative frameworks offer?” The event was moderated by Simon Maxwell, Senior Research, Overseas Development Institute. The event was hosted by Anglo American. Below is […]

Corporate Responsibility Champions Network: A ‘How to’ Guide

At the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility we seek to work with companies to understand the challenges they face in embedding a commitment to Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. Over the next few years, we are committed to producing accessible and rigorous action-research on corporate responsibility(CR). One aspect of this is the role that individuals at […]

Embedding Corporate Responsibility in the MBA Curriculum

Businesses around the world are struggling to embed Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. Management and business schools face similar challenges. For most schools, the MBA programme has become one of their core offerings. How far Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability is integrated through the MBA becomes an indicator of progress on broader embedding. Indeed, the biennial “Beyond […]

What gets measured gets done – WBCSD launches Measuring Impact Framework

In the spring of 2006, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) embarked on a two-year journey to develop a framework to assess the contribution of business to the economic and broader development goals in the societies where business operates. This grew out of a request by WBCSD member companies to develop a measurement […]

Shared Goals through Sport

Feb 08 – The business motivation behind, and characteristics of, effective private sector engagement in sport for development are delved into in this report.