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2009
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English
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Spread over 30 chapters in six units, Politics, Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business is a comprehensive guide to corporate social responsibility (CSR). It explains how the bases of CSR are politics and ethics, without which the role of business in society cannot be understood. Though designed for the students of B. Com, University of Delhi, this book will be useful for all students of management as well as practicing managers and professionals....
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2020.
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"How can today's leaders, who often kick off their enterprises with high hopes and short timetables, navigate the challenges of poverty and war, of egos and impatience, which have stymied generations of investors who came before? Drawing on ... stories from change-makers around the world and on memories of her own most difficult experiences, Jacqueline divulges the most common leadership mistakes and the mind-sets needed to rise above them"--
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"CEOs are now expected to deliver results that both increase the bottom line and drives value for all stakeholders, not just shareholders. But they aren't equipped with the understandings necessary to remake their organization and business model for sustainable business goals. Sustainable Leadership provides that education. It's the toolkit for leaders in the age of stakeholder capitalism, who are tasked with producing extraordinary profits while...
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"Our society is at a crossroads. It is no longer enough to have the best product or the most value add for your customers. Today consumers are considering more than just product quality and price. They are looking at how your company aligns with their values, how tapped into the social climate you are, and how authentic your social stances appear. To increase revenue and seize the competitive edge, your organization needs to embrace social causes...
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2005.
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English
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Capitalism is indeed at a crossroads, facing international terrorism, worldwide environmental change, and an accelerating backlash against globalization. Companies are at crossroads, too: finding new strategies for profitable growth is now more challenging. Both sets of problems are intimately linked. Learn how to identify sustainable products and technologies that can drive new growth while also helping to solve today's most crucial social and environmental...
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The Founder and CEO of the KIND brand of healthy snacks shares the story of his childhood in Mexico as the son of a Holocaust survivor and his professional successes, outlining his philosophies about business practices that combine profit goals and social consciousness.
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2022.
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English
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The authors present a framework for assessing a company's social and environmental performance based on four levers businesses can use to create impact: (1) the products and services the company develops or sells, (2) the customer segments it targets, (3) changes in operations, and (4) how profits are used. They explain the levers in detail, highlight links to the legacy concepts of ESG and impact investing, and identify tools for assessing a company's...
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2022.
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Corporate purpose will deliver on the promise of a more engaged workforce and more loyal customers only if companies develop the capacity to accurately assess the results of executing their purpose-driven strategy, particularly its social and environmental impact. To accomplish that, they must first understand the organization's current impact and shift thinking about ESG performance indicators from tracking inputs to showing evidence of results.
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Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity.
Through the exploration of robust cases and stories packed with deep insight and vital science, this extraordinary collection explores how we can adapt our notions of value, markets, and models of cooperation...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Do you assume the products you buy, the food you eat, the medicines you take, and the cars you drive are safe? Think again. We're exposed on a daily basis to life-threatening hazards of which we're often unaware. From defective airbags that can explode and kill us to poisonous additives in food, we're often the unknowing victims of corporate malfeasance and shamefully incompetent government oversight. In this hard-hitting expose′, Dr. Gerald M....
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©2005
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English
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Everyone agrees that firms should obey the law. But beyond what the law requires-beyond bare compliance with regulations-do firms have additional social responsibilities to commit resources voluntarily to environmental protection? How should we think about firms sacrificing profits in the social interest? Are they permitted to do so, given their fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders? Even if permissible, is the practice sustainable, or...
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2023.
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Welcome to Audio Learning from Assemble You. The further we get into the 21st Century, the more apparent it becomes that we're reaching a crucial turning point. The need for a better and more conscientious focus on sustainability is a global issue, and many businesses can do their part to help protect the environment. For understandable reasons, there has been significant pushback to this in the business world. Many business owners speculate that...
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2023.
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Welcome to Audio Learning from Assemble You. In this track, we will take a look at how this applies to the workplace and why it matters. Then we'll provide actionable steps for how to go green at work. So what is sustainability? According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, "Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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This provocative book takes us inside the fight to save capitalism from itself. Corporations are broken, reflecting no purpose deeper than profit. But the tools we are relying on to fix them--corporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government control--risk making our problems worse. With lively storytelling and careful analysis, O'Leary and Valdmanis cut through the tired dogma of current economic thinking to reveal a hopeful...
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