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Make Poverty Business
This book offers an alternative approach to the reduction of global poverty, motivating businesses to combine profit with socially responsible practice."No CEO should be without this book." Alex...
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Corporate Responsibility and Globalization
A new business structure appears to be on the horizon as large corporations are now integrating activist demands into their business plans.Big corporations are increasingly being looked at to make...
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A Model to Eradicate the Gulf Between Doing Good and Doing Well
Entrepreneurs can make a profit and still provide public services.A group of female clients of the National Association of Business Women (ABW), in Tajikistan, pose in front of a table of merchandise...
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Microinsurance Key to Protecting the Poor
Protecting the Poor is a book of lessons learned and technical guidance for insurance professionals and practitioners.Protecting the Poor: A Microinsurance Compendium, Edited by Craig Churchill....
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Financial Terms and Institutions
International finance can be difficult to understand, but here are some simplified definitions and articles on institutions such as the IMF and ideas like microfinance.Inside the atrium at the World...
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Good-Looking Samaritan
South African businesses are stepping up awareness campaigns about HIV, as high-risk youth become increasingly impervious to messages from traditional sources.Joining the HIV battle makes for good...
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Leadership in Botswana
Corporations are increasing their involvement in fighting HIV/AIDS, both as a dimension of social responsibility and as an effort to protect their workforce and clientele. Botswana's comparative...
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When Business Turns Green
By incorporating sustainable practices, UPS helps the environment while saving money. UPS takes small steps toward minimizing its environmental impact. Photo Credit: Flickr. For years now, Brown has...
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Toyota Makes India its Home and Offers Training to Youth
Today Business Week takes a look at Toyota and corporate responsibility:Harish, who comes from a family that lives below the poverty line of $177 in annual income, was a good student but had no...
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Is corporate responsibility good for business?
An Economist article from late January looks at the popularly supported concept of corporate responsibility and what that means for corporate profits.If companies need to be vigilant about the limits...
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Changing the Way They Do Business
Pharmaceutical companies are often seen as villains for making life-saving drugs so expensive the poor can't afford them. But what if a new CEO was making drugs more affordable and sharing secrets that...
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From Bhutan to Foxconn, corporate responsibility is big business
The bottom line of any profit-making scheme is profit. Increasingly, consumers are demanding even more than that.A new for-profit in the Southeast Asian nation of Bhutan is one of many new companies...
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Quotable: Employees vs. Citizens
Companies aren't just people -- they're actually whole countries.In his latest series on Foreign Policy, David Rothkopf sheds some surprising—and not-so-surprising—light on just how much power...
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Who failed in Rio? The public sector, not the private
Government negotiations largely failed at the Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable development last month. But private sector players led the way with strong commitments for the immediate...
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More than ever, CSR is a business advantage, not just charity: Nine
Corporate social responsibility used to be about improving a company’s image, but a fundamental shift is well underway. CSR is quickly becoming a major factor in companies' core business strategies—and...
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