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Blogs: Corporate Responsibility

Mon, Apr. 02, 2007
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

The Annals of Spin

This week’s New Yorker magazine (4/2/07) features a long negative story about Wal-Mart’s effort to “co-opt liberals.” This is another in the series of good news/bad news stories that both helps and plagues the company. After nearly a year of this endless seesaw, one wonders when they will get the...
Wed, Mar. 07, 2007
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

Saving the World With a Cup of Yogurt

Last week’s Fortune magazine ran a most incredible story. It details a partnership between Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and Danone, the French food company, to build a yogurt factory in Bangladesh. What’s so amazing about the story is that Danone believes that profits are not...
Tue, Mar. 06, 2007
Posted by Kendra Sibilia

Once More Around the Blogosphere:

As I’ve said in previous posts, Seventh Generation is not just a product but an idea. To continue with this idea, there is always a mind behind an idea. Jeffrey Hollender is that mind for Seventh Generation. All of his hard work, incredible values and intellect are not solely appreciated by the...
Tue, Jan. 16, 2007
Posted by Jeffrey Hollender

Secrets, Lies, and Sweatshops

A few weeks ago BusinessWeek ran an unusually long and cautionary tale about the challenges and limitations of “ethical” purchasing in China. “Some companies that thought they were making dramatic progress are discovering otherwise. A study commissioned by Nike last year covered 569 factories it...
Wed, Dec. 20, 2006
Posted by the Inkslinger

Spreading the Meme at Deringer

One of our corporate responsibility goals is to “green” our supply chain. That means spreading our gospel of sustainability to all the other companies we work with so that they eventually become responsible businesses we can keep doing business with. It’s a big and important part of what we do but...