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Blogs: Corporate Responsibility

Wed, Aug. 01, 2007
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

Green Is Gold According to Goldman

A new report released by Goldman Sachs on July 5th found that companies that are considered leaders in environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies are also leading the pack in stock market performance—by an average of 25 percent. That’s right – 25%, a margin so huge as to be almost hard to...
Fri, Jun. 22, 2007
Posted by the Inkslinger

Giving It Away

Sheila, our Doyen of Donational Doings, has been quite conscientiously forwarding to me news and notes pertaining to all the cool donations we’ve been making to laudable causes and needful folk, and I, for my own humble part in these great machinations, have been dutifully ignoring them while other...
Tue, Jun. 12, 2007
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

The End of Corporate Social Responsibility?

Some months ago I called your attention to the amazing work Dannon was doing in Bangladesh. Now the CEO of Unilever is talking about the end of CSR and the rise of sustainable development. Wow! This sounds promising, and Unilever has a number of exciting projects that highlight its commitment to...
Fri, Jun. 08, 2007
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

Driving to a Better Brand of Capitalism

I’d never really considered buying a Porsche, but check out the point of view of Wendelin Wiedeking, who is Porsche’s CEO not to mention a potato farmer and a shoemaker! Here's an excerpt from a Financial Times interview published a few days ago: “We should not always look at getting the maximum...
Wed, Jun. 06, 2007
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

Managers Need To Do a Better Job Managing. Me included!

A few weeks ago, Stefan Stern, writing in the Financial Times, noted: “New research into the UK workforce, to be published this week, reveals that the British malaise is as serious as any. The online market research group, YouGov, has surveyed 40,000 employees working at all levels in all sections...