CSR News

Although most of CSR research and literature focuses on multinational companies (MNCs), the issue is of similar, if not greater, importance for small and medium enterprises. In many countries these companies are important engines of economic growth and employment crea...

The World Bank Institute and its partners are pleased to announce a global e-conference on the broad theme of strategies for successful poverty reduction involving the ideas and energy of young people.

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Davos, Switzerland – The World Economic Forum’s ‘no-tie policy’ has raised 20,000 Swiss Francs for UNICEF. Participants who wished to continue to wear their ties were asked at security to pay a ‘forfeit‘ of five Swiss Francs a day if they wished to continue with their...

Davos, Switzerland - In a move to combat global corruption within their own industry, 19 leading international engineering and construction (E&C) companies today signed and adopted a set of business principles for countering bribery, as part of the World Economic...

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today warned the world could slide “into brute competition based on the laws of the jungle” and that the “War on Terrorism” declared by the United States in the wake of the 2001 attacks in New York and W...

SAN FRANCISCO – Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), a business membership organization that promotes corporate social responsibility among global companies, announced today that it has added three outstanding business leaders to its board of directors. Mandy Co...

Davos, Switzerland – The World Economic Forum today officially launched the Global Greenhouse Gas Register, a new global initiative to stimulate the disclosure and management by companies of their worldwide climate emissions. Developed in partnership with leading inte...

Davos, Switzerland – Corporate reputation is a more important measure of success than stock market performance, profitability and return on investment, according to a survey of some the world’s leading CEOs and organization leaders. Only the quality of products and se...

SEATTLE — Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) and Conservation International (CI) today announced a $2.5 million direct loan by Starbucks to help capitalize CI’s newly launched Verde Ventures fund. The fund helps provide direct access to affordable credit for smal...