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    Business in the Community Keynote: Luc Vandevelde Image

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    07-22-03

    Business in the Community Keynote: Luc Vandevelde

    LONDON - At Business in the Community’s annual ‘A Better Way of Doing Business’ conference July 10, Luc Vandevelde, Chairman of Marks & Spencer, gave the following keynote address entitled “Changing Fashion or Fashioning Change?”

    Business in the Community Conference Shows How Being Responsible Adds Value to Business Image

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    07-22-03

    Business in the Community Conference Shows How Being Responsible Adds Value to Business

    LONDON - Business in the Community’s annual ‘A Better Way of Doing Business’ conference took place at the Hilton London Metropole, Edgware Road on Thursday, July 10. It debated how the issues for business that emerged from the first Corporate Respo...

    Business in the Community Report: Tried & Tested Indicators to Drive Company Reporting Image

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    07-22-03

    Business in the Community Report: Tried & Tested Indicators to Drive Company Reporting

    LONDON - The report, ‘Indicators that Count’, is the culmination of a two year project run by Business in the Community’s Business Impact Review Group, which tested a set of social and environmental indicators previously identified in Business in the Community’s ‘Winn...

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    07-14-03

    "Business Ethics Teaching for Management Students is Vitally Important," says Sir Peter Walters.

    In presenting the prizes for the first annual IBE/EBEN-UK Student Essay Competition in Business Ethics, Sir Peter Walters, President of the Institute of Business Ethics, pointed out that a recent report on management courses at higher education colleges showed that at...

    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Is Heading in the Wrong Direction Says Tomorrow's Company Image

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    07-08-03

    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Is Heading in the Wrong Direction Says Tomorrow's Company

    LONDON, UK -- The paper, "Redefining CSR", identifies two types of Corporate Social Responsibility, "compliance" CSR and "conviction" CSR. "Compliance CSR" is driven by external expectations and reporting pressures; conviction CSR is led by the vis...

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    06-18-03

    Corporate Responsibility Messages Still Stop Short of the City

    UNITED KINGDOM - Investors and companies are still not having a meaningful dialogue about the business value of Corporate Responsibility (CR), according to research published today (Wednesday, June 18) at an event hosted by Derek Higgs, Chairman, Bu...

    U.S. Businesses Must Take Sustainable Approach to International Business Development, UPS Exec Says Image

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    06-18-03

    U.S. Businesses Must Take Sustainable Approach to International Business Development, UPS Exec Says

    WASHINGTON, DC - Early in its effort to build a global delivery network, UPS learned an important lesson: nobody knows more about the business and culture of a country than the people who live there.

    After recognizing some misstep...

    BSR Stakeholder Engagement and Supply Chain Trainings Help Companies Improve Corporate Social Responsibility Management and Performance Image

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    06-17-03

    BSR Stakeholder Engagement and Supply Chain Trainings Help Companies Improve Corporate Social Responsibility Management and Performance

    SAN FRANCISCO – Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) today announced two corporate trainings it will conduct in New York on July 22 and July 23, as part of an ongoing series.

    Stakeholder Engagement...

    Multinationals in the Neighbourhood: Driving Economic Development or Simply Crunching Numbers? Image

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    06-17-03

    Multinationals in the Neighbourhood: Driving Economic Development or Simply Crunching Numbers?

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA - “This will be the litmus test of how societies judge multinationals. Many corporations are weak on driving economic development impact on the poorest communities, but there are a handful of companies that have started grappling w...

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    06-13-03

    Public Still Can’t Name a Socially Responsible Company

    TORONTO, CANADA - According to the fourth annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Monitor survey of over 21,000 consumers, shareholders and corporate employees in 21 countries, significant proportions of people in most countries are unable to name a socially resp...

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