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Tracks and Trends in CSR Practices
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a rapidly increasing practice where businesses in Pakistan are becoming increasingly interested, active and innovative. The phenomenon has become a boardroom agenda for many organizations, if not for all. The traditional purview of CSR being only ‘corporate philanthropy’ is gradually getting expanded to the well-being of People, care for the […]
Reinventing Cities Critical to Climate
An interview with Alex Steffen Executive Editor of Worldchanging Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003. Steffen is the author of “World Changing: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century” (Abrams, 2006), a 600-page compendium of leading solutions from around the world. Prior to founding Worldchanging, […]
Local Happenings
No-Smoking Poster Competition initiated in selected Karachi schools Pfizer, the largest pharmaceutical company in the world with a huge presence in Pakistan, has initiated a poster competition among select schools in Karachi. The competition, which formally kicked off today, is a part of the company’s public awareness campaign against smoking and a contributor in Pfizer’s […]
Peace Corp(oration):IBM’s Deep Dive into Social Responsibility
Interview with Kevin Thompson, IBM’s Senior Program Manager for the Corporate Service Corps Sustainability 1.0 was about mitigating risks: getting ahead of regulations and avoiding PR debacles. Sustainability 2.0 involves the recognition that this work improves competitiveness. So what’s next? ISSP went in search of tangible examples of Sustainability 3.0 where corporations realize that there […]