Elaine Cohen

Elaine Cohen is a Sustainability Consultant and Reporter at Beyond Business and blogger on sustainability reporting and author of CSR for HR: A necessary business partnership to advance responsible business practices. She tweets at @elainecohen.

• BP and the Macondo Spill: The Complete Story

  Posted: Apr 19, 2012 – 12:54 PM EST

  Who was truly responsible for the infamous oil spill of 2010? Elaine Cohen reviews Colin Read's new book and spills the facts on Talkback.

• Making CSR Child-Friendly: Protecting Children from Business

  Posted: Apr 05, 2012 – 09:45 AM EST

  What threats does the pursuit of profit pose for children? Elaine Cohen reports, on Talkback.

• Goldman Sachs' Greg Smith: Whistleblowing or Trumpet Blowing?

  Posted: Mar 21, 2012 – 09:30 AM EST

  When is a whistleblower a whistleblower? If you resign and dig up the dirt, is this blowing a whistle or blowing a trumpet? Greg Smith of Goldman Sachs provides an opportunity to consider this question.

• A Business Book For Sustainability Leaders

  Posted: Mar 08, 2012 – 10:30 AM EST

  Elaine Cohen reviews Cy Wakeman's Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace & Turn Excuses Into Results

• Do U.S. Corporations Need A Gatekeeper?

  Posted: Feb 29, 2012 – 11:07 AM EST

  The U.S. State Department has created an Advisory Board to oversee implementation of the OECD guidelines. But doesn't the U.S. Government have better things to do?

• iTransparency: Is Apple catching up?

  Posted: Jan 18, 2012 – 10:30 AM EST

  While the rest of the market is furiously developing iPad Apps to display their latest sustainability information, Apple is catching up with a new ibreakthrough in transparency. It may be too little, but it's not too late.

• Women and the New Business Leadership: A Book Review

  Posted: Jan 10, 2012 – 09:15 AM EST

  To quota or not to quota? In Women and the New Business Leadership, authors Penniah Thomson and Tom Lloyd explore what it will take for women to reach parity in corporate boardrooms.

• 2011 in Retrospect: CSR in the News

  Posted: Dec 22, 2011 – 10:35 AM EST

  What better way to reflect on CSR as this year draws to a close, than to review some of the press releases that have penetrated our inboxes and our awareness in 2011?

• Dilemmas in Responsible Investment: A Review

  Posted: Dec 21, 2011 – 09:30 AM EST

  Socially responsible investment (SRI) sounds easy enough right? Think again, say the authors of Dilemmas in Responsible Investment.

• How many companies does it take to win an election?

  Posted: Nov 15, 2011 – 10:25 PM EST

  Elaine Cohen, CSRwire Contributing Writer, asks is corporate political spending a responsible business practice or unreasonable use of corporate power and influence?