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North American business schools provide the best MBA coverage of corporate responsibility, according to the latest Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey. […]

Companies helping to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina have been urged to commit themselves to guidelines on how they […]

The audit-dominated era of ethical supply chain management has been declared dead by one of the most influential bodies in […]

The UK Company Law Reform Bill, published last month, upholds the primacy of shareholders, but says directors need to consider […]

Chemicals group ICI has begun a major review of its corporate social responsibility programmes and policies. The UK-based multinational, which […]

Efforts to reduce world poverty will not succeed until aid agencies and governments bring business into the equation, according to […]

Steven Lydenberg. Berrett-Koehle Publishers. 170 pages. £16.99 hardback This is a timely publication about moving socially responsible investment on to […]

The time is ripe for cross-industry awards that acknowledge staff volunteering, says Scott Keiller Recently I sat on a panel […]

Large gifts from corporates and foundations have helped the international aid charity Mercy Corps to expand its disaster relief work […]

The Thai Beverage company is to discuss its proposals to become listed on the country’s bourse with the leaders of […]

Overtime was reduced in all factories that took part in a three-year project conducted among the Chinese partners of western […]

Four foreign companies have won inaugural CSR awards in China organized by the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCham). Nu Skin […]

Levi Strauss has granted $10,000 (£5700) to Cambodia’s Arbitration Council Foundation to fund its work in resolving collective labour disputes. […]

Leprosy patients in India and Nepal will continue to be treated with medicines supplied free by the pharmaceuticals company Novartis. […]

Wednesday has been designated as a day for discussion on CSR by the business organization CSR Asia. It is to […]

Girls in Bangladesh will benefit from two of 11 projects recently announced by the Nike Foundation. The foundation will work […]

Business leaders in Singapore have teamed up with the health ministry to persuade companies to combat discrimination against employees with […]

Australia seems to have lost its understanding of what sustainability and socially responsible investment mean, ethical investors were told in […]

The Federation of Korean Industries has given 10billion won ($9.4m, £5.4m) to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated […]

The first prize of $100,000 (£56,000) in the Asia Pacific Holcim awards competition for sustainable construction has gone to a […]

Businesses in Hong Kong now have their own CSR charter. The Community Business Leadership Team, a Hong Kong charity comprising […]

About 15 per cent of Malaysians have been involved in giving and taking bribes, says a study by the Malaysian […]

The interests of stakeholders other than shareholders will be a dominant issue in a government inquiry into the status of […]

British American Tobacco has defended its decision not to disclose in its annual accounts that it has operated a factory […]

In reviewing the recently published exposure draft of AccountAbility’s Stakeholder Engagement Standard (EP7, issue 6, p10), Hilary Sutcliffe makes some […]

The average gap between men’s and women’s pay in large Korean companies has widened by more than 50 per cent […]

Socially and environmentally responsible investments and products offer strong business and job opportunities in the Asia Pacific region, says a […]

The Japanese government and companies that have used asbestos are to establish a fund to contribute to the medical expenses […]

HSBC Brunei has given 2500 Brunei dollars ($1470, £830) to the Unicef Challenge 2005 organized by the Sheraton Utama Hotel […]

Companies should help countries to become more stable places to do business, says Martin Summers The long-term prosperity of many […]

The UK pension industry’s trade body has decided against producing guidelines on corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment. The […]

Business is to play a central role in the Clinton Global Initiative, which aims to generate concerted worldwide action in […]

Food retailers need to persevere with sourcing from small farmers in developing countries even if the farmers are not complying […]

The World Bank’s private sector lending arm has issued a revised draft of changes to its social and environmental policies […]

One of the oldest US corporations is being targeted in a new campaign by the Rainforest Action Network for what […]

Chemical companies have been criticized for doing too little to examine the potentially negative impacts of their products. A survey […]

The possible negative health effects of mobile phones and their networks have been the main corporate responsibility concern raised by […]

International energy generation group ScottishPower has begun assessing the social and environmental performance of its coal and natural gas suppliers. […]

Members of the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights, which was to wind up in spring 2006, have agreed to […]

Fourteen of the world’s 100 largest businesses have scored less than ten out of 100 in the second annual AccountAbility […]

The threat of terrorism has emerged as a corporate responsibility issue for Shell, which has scaled down operations at a […]

One of the three mechanisms of calling multinational companies to account, outside the courts, has come under criticism. The OECD […]

A further sign that fair trade products are entering mainstream UK business came last month as the food giant Nestlé […]

Pressure on Brazilian companies to behave in a more socially responsible manner rose a notch last month with the introduction […]

Sports clothing giant Puma has publicly released the results of its ethical auditing of supplier factories for the first time. […]

Google is to pay more attention to its social responsibilities in the wake of its public flotation. The internet search […]

Accountability. Free downloads available at www.accountability.org.uk There’s no doubt that the new AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard is a Good Thing. […]

Judging by their preambles to corporate non-financial reports, many chief executives are strongly committed to socially responsible business practice. Too […]

Too many non-financial corporate reports fail to hold their readers’ attention because they use complicated language and jargon, the founder […]

Corporate risks associated with nanotechnology could soon become a significant socially responsible investment theme, the research firm Innovest has declared. […]

Some of the UK’s largest firms are being targeted by a campaign that claims they are acting irresponsibly by erecting […]

EP talks to former president of Ireland Mary Robinson about the role companies can play in galvanizing governments and society […]

Australia & New Zealand Banking and the Australian Government are forming an initiative called MoneyBusiness aimed at promoting money management […]

Russia may at last have its first big corporate player in the corporate social responsibility field. Moscow-based Rusal, which produces […]

CSR activities in India must amount to more than writing cheques, donating to charity and having a good public relations […]

More Asian employers are now making efforts to prevent HIV and Aids, reports a new survey from the World Economic […]

Utilities business Centrica is intensifying its efforts on diversity to help it open up new natural gas supplies in remote […]

The United Nations has come in for a lot of stick lately, not least for its failure to agree on […]

Members of the Tsunami Business Task Force, led by the International Business Leaders’ Forum, have visited tsunami-hit areas of India, […]

Bob Welsh, chief executive of the Australian pension fund VicSuper has been recognized in the SAM/SPG Sustainability Leadership Awards, which […]

Japanese businesses and individuals are starting a group in October to support the World Food Programme in trying to eradicate […]

Sustainability performance by business has been estimated to have fallen by 19 per cent in Japan since 1990. The environmental […]

India’s labour rights and environment legislation has been applauded by the SustainAbility consultancy in the first of its studies of […]

The Export-Import Bank of Korea, an official export credit agency serving the country’s international traders, has joined the UN Environment […]

CSR practitioners are to be offered a new training programme that concentrates on improving their ability to communicate with and […]

For some companies, stakeholder engagement is no longer just a ‘nice to do’, but an integral part of their overall […]

UK financial institutions have given a lukewarm response to calls to redirect cash in dormant bank accounts to projects that […]

The company that runs the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes has claimed so many businesses are now getting to grips with […]

One of the world’s biggest alcoholic drinks companies has urged other businesses to copy its idea of creating a marketing […]

The vexed question of whether the United Nations should develop a set of binding ‘norms’ for the behaviour of multinational […]

One of the UK’s largest property investment management companies has asked senior executives to lead progress on eight different aspects […]

The financial sector is not getting enough of what it wants from sustainability reports, says a new international survey. The […]