4690 Articles match "responsibility"

• The Best from Informal Learning Flow

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• Is Your Business Useless?
  
  Tags: Corporate social responsibility Econom These days, lots of people ask me: "Phew! So, the crisis is over, right?" Wrong. The real crisis is in the DNA of the industrial economy — and it's just as lethal as ever. Most businesses
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, October 26, 2009
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• Community Responsibility vol 1 - OMG is this a community?
  
  There is a distinction here that leads directly to whether or not you are ‘responsible’ in an ethical sense or ‘obliged’ in a legal sense. If you are in a community you are, in some way, responsible to that community, in a network you are responsible to yourself and the rules that govern you are those set forth by our society as laws. Community is about that interplay of invitation Preamble This This first post in the series of Community Responsibillity vs “The tragedy of the commons” is an attempt to lay the groundwork for the weeks
  Dave's Educational Blog - Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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• Corporate Social Responsibility as Insurance
  
  The question "should corporations actively invest in socially responsible stuff , or should they simply focus on making money?" People are then quick to shout "but they are not two different things; behaving in a socially responsible way will in the long run also make you better off financially!" And I say "unfortunately" because of course it would great if the socially responsible companies were also financially rewarded for their honorable endeavors. continues to linger and re-emerge on the business agenda (especially, it seems, around the time that business-minds return from their annual swarm to Davos ).
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, February 26, 2009
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• How Corporate Responsibility Can Survive the Recession
  
  Corporations engaged in recession-driven cost-cutting are trimming or eliminating corporate responsibility initiatives. Employees are attracted to and motivated to stay with socially responsible companies, and want to see commitment to CR initiatives continue through tough times. Jocz, "Can Corporate Social Responsibility Survive Recession?" Though corporate survival is key and consumer skepticism of business CR initiatives at an all-time high, such actions are short-sighted. Now more than ever, businesses need to be saying "yes" rather than "no" to their social responsibilities.There
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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• Better Conferences - Response Needed
  
  And, I need you to help by doing one or more of the following: provide a response to the poll below (won't show in an RSS feed - sorry) provide suggestions for what you'd like to see in future conferences (add comment). I'm pretty sure it's not just me... I believe we can build better conferences.
  eLearning Technology - Monday, June 18, 2007
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• Wal-Mart's Environmental Game-Changer
  
  Tags: Consumer goods Corporate social responsibility Green busines Wal-Mart has just changed the game with respect to environmental issues. Now it doesn't matter whether Congress' new cap-and-trade law meets all its promises, nor whether the G-8 leaders dithered rather than acted on environmental issues. Wal-Mart's unilateral decision to put its purchasing and communication power behind going green also shows that a single company using
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, July 16, 2009
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• Inside Procter & Gamble's New Values-Based Strategy
  
  Tags: Corporate social responsibility Global business Innovatio On the anniversary of Lehman Brothers' fall, the question remains: What, if anything, has changed in the mentality of the financial community? While Wall Street wallows in tales of the fallen, a different, more promising approach to capitalism is rising. Procter & Gamble, the world's largest consumer products
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, September 14, 2009
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• Response to Kirshner
  
  Here is my talk: Here is my response to Kirshner's criticisms, posted here . focus of the talk would be to response to some of the very specific objections that have been raised, eg., posted the summary of the Kirshner, Weller and Clark paper as well as a series of responses on my blog, Half an Hour . Wilfred Reubins provides the translation. Wilfred Rubens wrote: Paul had doubts if he would respond.
  Half an Hour - Sunday, November 18, 2007
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• New Freedom Destroys Old Culture: A response to Nick Carr
  
  I have never understood Nick Carr’s objections to the cultural effects of the internet. He’s much too smart to lump in with nay-sayers like Keen, and when he talks about the effects of the net on business, he sounds more optimistic, even factoring in the wrenching transition, so why aren’t the cultural effects similar cause for optimism, even accepting the wrenching transition in those domains as well? I
  Many-to-Many - Wednesday, August 1, 2007
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• The New Social Contract for Green Business
  
  It's time to recognize the shift, make changes and deliver on both the responsibilities and opportunities that sustainable business practices represent. Once new rules have been understood, and their costs and consequences established, they push responsibility for these activities down in the organization. And they will have to end their fragmented treatment of sustainability issues, creating a high-level, centralized We're in an interesting period in history when the relationship businesses have with society is undergoing a fundamental, permanent change. And sustainability,
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, May 11, 2009
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