The meaning of the term Sustainability and Business is undergoing a transition, and companies and business leaders are beginning to change the way they are approaching their responsibilities to business and society. The MIT Sloan Management Review explored recent trends and issues transforming the business environment, in their summer issue 2012 and also in a […]
When Unilever Indonesia wanted clean water for their plant on the highly-polluted Brantas River, they turned to community partners. Rather than throwing money at the problem, they provided management expertise, volunteering help and equipment to help the community help themselves. Key to this was changing the community’s mindset from seeing the river as little more […]
Ever since 1972, 5th of June, has been celebrated as the World Environment Day. It was on this day that the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held for the first time. An interesting fact about this particular international day is that every year it is hosted by a different city in the […]
“The social context in which business operates at the beginning of the 21st century is uncertain, complex and dynamic.” (Fitzgerald 2003) “An integrated CSR culture (is where) external-led policies and actions used to support reputation and stakeholder engagement are matched by internal business strategies and decisions driven by social and environmental principles.” (Hancock 2005) In […]
