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Peter Guest, Editor, This is Africa, FT Business

Peter Guest, Editor, This is Africa, FT Business from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. Recorded at an event in London on 2 December 2009, “Business Innovation to Fight Climate Change and Poverty”

Corporate Volunteering: Top 7 Requests & the Bad, Better and Best Responses (1 of 7)

The following blog entry is a cross-post from my blog Realizing Your Worth. “We want a volunteer experience that can be done in no more than a day, and no less than a half-day.” Companies want to engage their communities through employee volunteering programs. For most, this means calling a non-profit and scheduling an activity. […]

Corporate Volunteering: Top 7 Requests & the Bad, Better and Best Responses (1 of 7)

The following blog entry is a cross-post from my blog Realizing Your Worth. “We want a volunteer experience that can be done in no more than a day, and no less than a half-day.” Companies want to engage their communities through employee volunteering programs. For most, this means calling a non-profit and scheduling an activity. […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Business and philanthropy: The blurring of boundaries

Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the philanthropic resources made available for global development, particularly from private sector sources who encourage the increased application of business thinking and models to philanthropic objectives. This blurring of boundaries is leading to the creation of promising hybrid models that combine aspects of business investment approaches and […]

Brand-jacking: and how to avoid it

Oct 04 – This report shows how companies can take steps to communicate better with their customers to help mitigate the risks of brand-jacking.