Sentences with phrase «social impact rather»

In the wake of an open letter in January from Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, exhorting businesses everywhere to focus on their social impact rather than simply maximizing profits, they wondered whether Moynihan might feel under more pressure to do so now that tax reforms would be lightening the burden in the future.

Not exact matches

(And of course, claiming to adhere to CSR is even easier if you use a mushier definition, one that only asks that you «manage» your social impact, rather than aiming at any particular objective.)

Rather than just talking about how green your company is (in manufacturing process, recycling, or use of materials), your marketing can impact lasting social change.

Crispin suggests that rather than focusing on safety as a guiding principle to govern or advocate for, the focus should be on peace, where there is a focus on addressing social problems and systemic issues that impact homelessness, mass incarceration and mental illness.

ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

In this economy, I see this as a social issue of serious impact — the big retail giants are getting richer by manipulating information sources to support their casues, rather than provide facts that could really help inform people and change lives.

The majority of research on Head Start focuses solely on children's cognitive and social outcomes rather than on the impacts on parents.

If we expand the scope of reform efforts «to include the social, economic, racial, and political contexts of students» lives, we'll surely be more successful,» she writes, taking care not to be dismissive of those goals, but noting how «their collective impact leaves me limp and rudderless, rather than inspired.

Indeed, the social scientists» brief rather cautiously claims the existence of any benefit at all, describing the «positive impact» as «modest,» id., at 13, acknowledging that «there appears to be little or no effect on math scores,» id., at 14, and admitting that the «underlying reasons for these gains in achievement are not entirely clear,» id., at 15.11

But it seems to me that if they are to have much of an impact, they must build social capital rather than just provide services to individual kids.

It explores how the development and widespread use of ICTs have a radical impact on the human condition.ICTs are not mere tools but rather social forces that are increasingly affecting our self - conception (who we are), our mutual interactions (how we socialise); our conception of reality (our metaphysics); and our interactions with reality (our agency).

Rather than grouping the artists geographically, the exhibition explores the thematic and material relationships between the artists to address themes that transcend particular locations such as peace and social violence; race, power, and identity; informal economies and corporate impact on the environment; memory; architecture, light and space.

This does not mean we should entirely reject the quest to understand both the natural and social science of «climate emergencies», but rather adds weight to the argument that we need to understand better what it might mean to agree criteria about impacts, vulnerability and so forth that are sensitive to the real challenges of knowability and unknowability involved in such a process.

The reviews will be known as impact assessments, rather than environmental assessments, because they are to consider a broader range of factors including the health, social and economic impacts of a project.

The combination of a «whistleblower» with pink hair, a huge botched job by FB, quite clever coordination with the New York Times which has a very strong incentive to blame Facebook for Trump (rather than their own coverage of Hillary's emails and so on, which dwarfed all «fake news» social media in impact — cf. physicist Duncan Watts for detail), and the desire of many established players to screw Silicon Valley tech companies gave the story more legs than her previous ones.

When you post your love, compliments, and praise for each other on social media rather than sharing it directly with your partner, you run the risk of strengthening the world's awareness while weakening the impact you would have had on the one person it was truly meant for.

Her interest in social emotional development began while working with students with disabilities and realizing that their issues did not begin and end in the classroom, but rather impacted the away they interacted with others and how others interacted with them This led to a career long passion to help all students strengthen their character by teaching them how to develop social and emotional competencies.As an elementary school principal, she and her staff implemented school - wide philosophies that focused on SECD.

The findings illustrated that relationship satisfaction is impacted by how, rather than how often, social media is used.

In the interview Brooks describes how current neuro - science points to a view of human nature based not on rational beings operating independently, but rather on complicated and emotional people deeply impacted by social connections and relationships.

Rather, compliance requires an indication of the impact of the proposed act on the community or social activities of the native title holders or areas or sites of particular significance or any land or waters concerned (section 237 (a) NTA) and so requires a statement of the community or social activities that are likely to be interfered with and the likely impact on them of the future act.

Second, regression analyses revealed that social support functioned as a moderator of the impact of autism severity on sibling adjustment rather than a mediator or compensatory variable.