Sentences with phrase «responsible businesses»

Many responsible businesses attempt to support former employees when they are displaced through layoffs or other terminations.

«Instead of paying workers» compensation premiums to cover all of its workers, as responsible businesses do, Uber will charge drivers for the medical care and time - loss benefits that the rest of us get by virtue of working at a job,» Smith says.

Crowd - funding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo help artists and designers fund their projects, but increasingly the funding strategy is helping entrepreneurs to build responsible businesses.

The UN says «As one of the major contributors of carbon emissions, responsible businesses and organisations need to measure, reduce and offset their emissions.»

Discover thousands of socially and environmentally responsible businesses.

Having reduced what they can, responsible businesses offset remaining, unavoidable emissions.

SB 852 would have targeted responsible businesses and empowered unethical ones, but thanks to independent retailers, legislators realized what they were about to do.

I am exploring opportunities that fall in the spectrum between socially responsible businesses and education - centric not - for - profits.

The Green Business Network (GBN) offers a vibrant community of over 4,000 environmentally and socially responsible businesses, the oldest and largest of its kind in the US.

Saunders said such gifts are not improper but something responsible businesses do to help their communities.

Rainforest Alliance Leadership Summit May 10, 2017 - New York City, New York, United States This is an opportunity to bring together executives from companies that produce, source and promote Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ products along with other environmentally and socially responsible businesses.

The People, Profit, Planet concept is one that has been growing in popularity among socially responsible businesses in the past several years.

We believe that responsible businesses are those who don't just tackle the company bonuses at the top — but take steps to ensure a fairer deal for the workers and farmers at the bottom of the supply chain too,» says Harriet Lamb, executive director of the Fairtrade Foundation.

Creating socially responsible businesses is not only a good thing to do, but it will give you company a unique competitive advantage.

Last October, for example, Cascade became a certified B Corporation, a sort of LEED certification for socially responsible businesses.

Do the best you can at the time In today's socially responsible businesses, understatement is the name of the game.

«That's not the process kind of approach that today's socially responsible businesses are taking.»

But somehow, Seventh Generation managed not only to survive but to thrive, as have the two entrepreneurs — although the beliefs of both men, and their philosophies about entrepreneurship in general and socially responsible businesses in particular, have changed in ways neither would have thought possible.

You may disagree with how to alleviate inequality, but as responsible business owners you can't ignore it.

The reason is their (common) misconception that the costs will outweigh any benefit, that there is no bottom - line value in environmentally responsible business practices.

If we were to accept lower margins because of our commitment to social responsibility, then we'd be doing the broader socially responsible business movement a disservice because we wouldn't be as competitive or as attractive to investors.»

Now he's happy to see the progressive meet the practical in the socially responsible business movement.

«Twenty years ago, the socially responsible business movement was focused more on business practices — not on ownership and size.

The issue is a basic one: What does it mean to run a socially responsible business?

The times they are a-changin» Chances are, when you hear the term socially responsible business, a handful of companies — and their founders — leap to mind: Ben & Jerry's Homemade (Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield).

But the new breed has added its own, decidedly more pragmatic ingredients to the socially responsible business mix.

«They're not buying the old line of having to choose between financial returns and sustainable, responsible business practices.

What's a responsible business to do in the face of a Trump presidency?

Owners need the critical information to make responsible business decisions and keep the business growing.

I was finishing up my MBA at Schulich School of Business at York University with a focus on sustainability and responsible business, and a background in environmental science, and that really just synched up with how Pangaea was looking to grow their team.

More companies are focusing on socially responsible business practices.

«At the end, the casefeatured how responsible the business wasto the environment, and how that was beneficialto the business.»

So what is a socially responsible business?

David is coordinator of ICCR «s Bangladesh Investor Initiative, a global collaboration in support of the Accord for Fire and Building Safety; member, Steering Committee of the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment; member, Advisory Group of the newly formed Responsible Labor Initiative of the Responsible Business Alliance and former chair, Advisory Board, Global Social Compliance Program.

Before joining Ceres, he worked for Pact, Inc., where he was responsible for helping build a program focused on responsible business practices in developing countries.

The genuine concern leaders in the Middle East have for responsible business was evident at this years World Economic Forum.

www.asyousow.org Proxy Impact provides shareholder engagement and proxy voting services that promote sustainable and responsible business practices.

It outlines six key rights the Responsible Business Lending Coalition believes all small business borrowers deserve:

It was created by B Lab, a U.S. not - for - profit organization, to enable corporations to define themselves to consumers and investors as socially and environmentally responsible business entities.

The second initiative is the creation of a multi-stakeholder Advisory Body to advise the Government and the CORE on responsible business conduct abroad.

They contribute 10 percent of their profits to «non-profit community, environmental, health and responsible business organizations working for positive change.»

«I look at it as running a responsible business and giving the customer what they want.

With its motto of «Not Just a Cup, But a Just Cup,» the company also has been a leader in socially responsible business practices, «cause coffees» and community support.

The Rainforest Alliance is an international nonprofit organization working to build a future in which nature is protected and biodiversity flourishes, where farmers, workers, and communities prosper, and where sustainable land use and responsible business practices are the norm.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Experts gathering at the 5th Responsible Business Forum (RBF) on Food and Agriculture have stressed the need for multi-stakeholder collaboration to upscale the sharing of proven best practices in sustainable rice production among Asia's smallholder rice farmers.

«These developments have negatively impacted our profitability, and as a responsible business we have to act to remove the impact of these new developments, and the action we are taking is a three - year transformation program which cuts across our whole business and sets out to restore our profitability.»

McCain was founded six decades ago on good and responsible business ethics.

Responsible Business Summit NY March 27 - 28, 2017 - Brooklyn, NY, US Kiku Loomis, Director, Claims, Traceability & Trademarks was a speaker.

Responsible Business Forum On Food & Agriculture 2017 March 14 - 15, 2017 - Grand Hyatt Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia Nurdiana Darius, Director Southeast Asia, spoke.

Responsible Business Summit March 26 - 27, 2018 - Brooklyn, New York, United States Jakob Schenker, Markets Transformation Coordinator, will be participating.