Fighting poverty by empowering women
It is widely recognised in the development community that it is women who suffer most the burden of poverty, and that it is women who offer the best route out poverty. Grameen, perhaps the best-known advocate and pioneer, uses micro loans, financial services and technology, to help the poor, mostly women, to start self-sustaining businesses […]
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 […]
Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund Goes Live!
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) website goes live today. The AECF is a US$50-100m private sector fund, backed by some of the biggest names in development finance and hosted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Its aim is to encourage private sector companies to compete for like-for-like investment support for […]
Non-Financial Performance Metrics For Corporate Responsibility Reporting Revisited
This is the first “Working Paper” from the Doughty Centre. It has been written by Dr Malcolm Arnold from Cranfield. Malcolm has not had any previous engagement with the Corporate Responsibility field. He completed his doctorate at Cranfield in summer 2007, on the impact of mergers and acquisitions on corporate value. Malcolm kindly volunteered to […]
Small is Sustainable (And Beautiful!) – Encouraging European Smaller Enterprises To Be Sustainable
This paper takes stock of the some of the significant progress made and lessons learned in supporting the uptake of corporate social responsibility (CSR) amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It then identifies a number of issues that we think merit further attention as this important work continues. Our key messages are: In some countries, […]
The Business of Business is…? Unpicking the Corporate Responsibility Debate
Companies must be part of any lasting solution to many of the pressing environmental and social problems facing the world. All companies do good things and bad things, often at the same time. The essence of the debate over Corporate Responsibility1 (CR) is whether governance of the good and bad things companies do should be […]
Small is Sustainable (and Beautiful) Encouraging European Smaller Enterprises To Be Sustainable
This paper takes stock of the some of the significant progress made and lessons learned in supporting the uptake of corporate social responsibility (CSR) amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It then identifies a number of issues that we think merit further attention as this important work continues. Our key messages are: • In some […]
Human rights & the private sector
May 04 – This publication provides relevant frameworks for those interested in corporate practice and policy implementation on human rights.
Human rights & the private sector
May 04 – This publication provides relevant frameworks for those interested in corporate practice and policy implementation on human rights.