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- Britain's biggest companies are urged to link bonuses to safety and green success
Britain's biggest companies are being urged to radically alter the way they pay their directors by linking their bonuses to non-financial measures such as environmental protection and the safety of employees.
Read more 6 February 2008 - HP's innovative inkjet recycling program
In an industry first, HP today announced it has developed an engineering breakthrough that enables the use of post-consumer recycled plastics in the production of new Original HP inkjet print cartridges.
Read more 30 January 2008 - Marketing: A question of Ethics
Public awareness of ethical issues is at an all-time high. As always, marketers follow close behind. But are they just jumping on the bandwagon?
Read more 21 January 2008 - Does CSR work?
“The theological question—should there be CSR?—is so irrelevant today,” says John Ruggie of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. “Companies are doing it. It's one of the social pressures they've absorbed.”
Read more 17 January 2008 - Just good business
Corporate social responsibility, once a do-gooding sideshow, is now seen as mainstream. But as yet too few companies are doing it well, says Daniel Franklin.
Read more 17 January 2008 - The feel good factor
When catastrophic floods hit Bangladesh last November, TNT's emergency-response team was ready. The logistics giant, with headquarters in Amsterdam, has 50 people on standby to intervene anywhere in the world at 48 hours' notice. This is part of a five-year-old partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN's agency that fights hunger.
Read more 17 January 2008 - BT and Cisco Sponsored Paper Says Sustainability Breeds Innovation and Profitability
Focusing on sustainability can help businesses innovate and see profits, but it's a concept that has to start with leadership and be part of a company's culture, according to a paper released yesterday.
Read more 16 January 2008 - Companies warned on social reports
A group of influential investors has warned 78 listed companies that they are breaching pledges to a United Nations agreement on society and the environment by failing to publish progress reports.
Read more 15 January 2008 - Why green marketing is about more than green ads
Green adverts may be all the rage, but they need to be part of a genuinely green marketing campaign, argues Keith Jones of marketing data firm Acxiom.
Read more 15 January 2008 - European retailers to “lose market share” if they fail to address sustainability
Only 28 percent of international retailers in Europe claim to have a policy on Corporate Social Responsibility, despite the fact that 38 per cent of those interviewed in a survey believe that consumers will increasingly differentiate between those retailers with a CSR policy and those without.
Read more 11 January 2008
