Sustainability

LONDON - New research announced today by Business in the Community has found that consumers are now purchasing a product associated with a good cause every second in the UK. The Business in the Community Giving Now 2003 survey, supported by BMRB, has discovered that 8...

SILVER SPRING, MD. - OPTIMUS Corporation, a leader in public safety technology, today announced that it has been selected as a winner of the 2003 National Capital Business Ethics Awards, presented by the Greater Washington and Northern Virginia Chapters of the Society...

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Hong Kong — Sustainable and responsible investing is a small but growing trend in Asian fund management with strong potential to propel improvements in corporate environmental and social perf...

NEW YORK, NY - A new report to be released Wednesday (08 October) by The Aspen Institute and the World Resources Institute challenges business schools to better arm graduate business students with skills critical for effective leadership in a changing world.

LONDON - On 15th October Toby Kent, an international consultant on CSR with wide experience in Africa, will deliver the first lecture in a series addressing the impact which business and economic investment can have on the gestation and mitigation of violence conflic...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - William McDonough, Visiting Professor of Business Administration at The Darden School and former dean of the University of Virginia's School of Architecture, is the recipient of Columbia Business School's prestigious 2003 Botwinick Prize in Ethic...

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - Thirty-three percent of teens would act unethically to get ahead or to make more money if there was no chance of getting caught, according to a new Junior Achievement/Harris Interactive Poll of 624 teens between the ages of 13 and 18. Twenty-fi...

NEW YORK, NY - When Enron released its disastrous quarterly earnings results on October 16th, 2001, including an unexpected write-off, a pair of journalists were already hard at work writing a story that linked those results with two shadowy partnerships partly owned and run...

ST. GALLEN -- Sustainable investments are the equals of their traditional counterparts. A new study has concluded that, contrary to popular belief, sustainability is no disadvantage in the management of portfolios.

Since their inc...

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- An innovative new survey released today by the Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program analyzes for the first time on a regional basis listed companies' disclosures on a broad range of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues.