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Political Economy
Credible Cure for States' Economic Crisis?
As the Republican candidates leave Maine to head to Arizona and Michigan, one topic seems to have escaped their attention entirely: a credible economic cure for what ails the states where they're waging their campaigns for president.
La Nausée Russe
Authoritarian regimes in Russia tend to die not from external blows or domestic insurrections, but rather from a strange internal disease resembling Jean-Paul Sartre's existential nausea. Today, Vladimir Putin’s regime is atrophying from that same strange disease, despite – or because of – the seemi...
Organizational Sustainability
CSO vs. CEO: Owning Sustainability
Last Fall, the Weinreb Group published CSO Back Story , identifying 29 Chief Sustainability Officers with that exact title working in the U.S. for publicly traded companies. Of the 29, we highlighted five CSOs (from SAP, EMC, AT&T, UPS and Dupont) whose perspectives included the value their role ...
Business, Brand Your Social Signature ©
I don’t think it’s been done yet, but I would love to see some research that explores how visible and instrumental the brand team is in the sustainability team’s life, and vice versa. My hunch: They barely know each other.
This is a challenge on several levels.
Resources + Utilities
B-Corporations: Solving The Ben Jerry's Problem Again
For B Corporations and for the movement being enshrined into law in several states around the country, that means making it legal to have language in a company’s operating agreement that enable it to push back against investors and shareholders who think that the duty of a company is to maximize sha...
Organic Farmers Fight For Survival Against Monsanto
It was standing room only in a courtroom in Federal District Court in lower Manhattan on January 31. The family farmers and supporters gathered were a little like David going up against Goliath, hoping for a green light in pursuing a landmark case against the giant pesticide and GMO seed company, Mo...
CSR + Investors
EFQM CSR Framework
CSR has been and is interpreted in many ways with differing organizational importance and values, from occasional volunteering to something that is embedded within an organization’s DNA and culture. Emergence of CSR thinking over the years has blurred boundaries of Corporate Social Resilience, Corpo...
5 Trends for CSR Sustainability in 2012
Every year, MHC International's annual CSR & Sustainability Update expert group meeting looks at the prospects for CSR in the coming year in the context of changing trends and themes in the corporate, social, political and economic spheres. Now in its sixth year, the group is comprised of a rang...
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