News, Reviews & Interviews
- Corporate social responsibility - Looking five years forward and back
Mallen Baker considers what he got wrong - and right - over the last five years on CSR, and considers the major trends for the next half decade.
Read more 7 January 2008 - Organisations Must Up The Ante To Improve Sustainability
A research by BT finds that only three per cent of UK customers believe that businesses are fully open and honest about what they are really doing to work in a sustainable manner, while 33 per cent actually believe they exaggerate their actions in order to gain consumer favour.
Read more 7 January 2008 - Sustainability: Now it's easier to be green
For years, accountants have dabbled at the edges of sustainability. Their response to climate change and the growing effect it has on corporate performance has been, in the words of one prominent accountant, "a bit like a rabbit caught in the headlights".
Read more 4 January 2008 - BP earns top position in annual ranking for business responsibility
BP, the oil and gas major, has topped Fortune’s prestigious annual ranking for 2007 for being the most accountable company in the world. BP received the top rating last month from amongst a pool of 100 global corporations, including heavyweights such as Barclays, ENI, HSBC Holdings and Vodafone.
Read more 1 January 2008 - Sustainability: Taking a responsible view to improve employer brand and staff retention
Today's graduates are all too aware of the global threats facing our planet - from climate change to disease to terrorism. They expect and want to enter a world of work committed to acting responsibly, to minimising the impact their company can have on the environment and to 'giving something back'.
Read more 27 November 2007 - Are sustainability and human capital management so very different?
Having recently moved into the world of sustainability after 20-plus years in HR, the similarities between the two fields are striking.
Read more 5 November 2007 - Linking shareholder value with sustainability
Companies often make the mistake of separating environmental and social activities from business management and leadership.
Read more 9 October 2007 - Doing the right thing
Time for Wall Street to recognize what a 'good' company is
Read more 5 October 2007
