How a company treats its employees and the environment are becoming bigger and bigger concerns for shoppers in the checkout aisle--and they want that information to be easy to find and verify.
Is being a good consumer more important than voting in people’s calculations of what makes them good citizens? If you’ve lost almost all faith in government, the answer is yes.
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It seems like every company in the world is doing something to give back and is eager to tell you about it. But are they too eager? Does trumpeting your own good deeds negate them?
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"We had been a fundraising organization. We are transforming ourselves to be conveners and facilitators of multiple stakeholders--businesses, governments, NGOs, and others--for the purpose of improving people’s lives," says Barry Salzberg, the new chairman of the board for United Way Worldwide.
Is the era of attaching a cause to all of our purchases really the best way for companies to prove they care about the world? Or would it would be better to go back to a time when companies just created foundations to give their money away?
The age of big corporations doing whatever they want is over. Now companies must find ways to give back, and to do it in ways that consumers find authentic. How can a company get there? Follow these rules.
It’s hard to be too sustainable if you’re producing most of the world’s oil, but as the economies of the Arab world develop, there are ways to ensure a higher level of responsibility.
A new list of the most admirable companies has some curious additions, including oil and tobacco companies. Is there more to being a good business than not destroying people or the environment?
Are you working to make a company better from the inside? Is it working? A survey of CSR professionals found that the industry’s lack of direction is starting to wear on the people who should be most excited.
