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Patsy Doerr, global head of Diversity — Inclusion and Corporate Social Responsibility at Thomson Reuters, was recently featured in the Business Reporter, a publication from the UK's Daily Telegraph.

With this in mind (and because it's Fair Trade Month), I'm pleased to post a «Your Dot» contribution from Mike Dupee, the vice president for corporate social responsibility at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which is the largest purchaser of «fair trade» coffee in the world.

Today's NWEI Changemaker Interview is with Chef Instructor Ramona White, who teaches food ethics and social responsibility at Oregon Culinary Institute.

With social responsibility at the forefront and a genuine commitment to positively impact the destinations it calls home, every Swissôtel upholds industry - leading sustainability standards and is committed to treating guests, colleagues, and the environment with equal respect.

With social responsibility at the forefront and a genuine commitment to positively impact the destinations it calls home

Children can grow up with hugely improved and much more respectful communication skills than most adults do currently and a greater sense of social responsibility at the same time.

«Working with Restore the Earth gives corporate volunteer teams a real, meaningful opportunity to take a high - profile issue, restoring a critical environmental site, and really give back,» says Patty Riddlebarger, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Entergy Corporation.

This isn't about discouraging drinking — it's about rewarding people who are making responsible decisions early on about whether they will be drinking or driving during festivities,» said Stephanie Johnston, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at HEINEKEN USA.

Demanding authenticity, Cape Classics operates the «old - fashioned» way, with the relationships and social responsibility at the forefront of our business.

While price, quality and portion size of course remain primary factors in this equation, new research from Technomic's «2017 Value & Pricing Consumer Trend Report» shows that consumers are placing increasing importance on sustainability and social responsibility at the dining venues they visit.

«The Juno Beach Centre is an important resource for all of Canada,» said John Lawrence, director of corporate social responsibility at Walmart Canada.

Head's up, business owners: Neglect corporate social responsibility at your own peril.

As Caroline Wanga, vice president of corporate social responsibility at Target Corp., explained to me when we discussed the story of Yasir, Dennis and Cathy, «Headquarters works nothing like the stores.

Not exact matches

With any expenditure aimed at bettering employees, the environment, and community instead of maximizing profits for shareholders, there arises the conflict between shareholders and corporate social responsibility.

Yesterday, at Canadian Business for Social Responsibility's annual Forum, I got the chance to ask keynote speaker Stephen Lewis about the ethics of lobbying.

«For a long time, climate change was pushed by EU diplomacy and the U.S. was largely absent,» said Edward Cameron, managing director of the New York - based Business for Social Responsibility, which organized numerous briefings and panel discussions at COP 21.

ING's relationship with the Stop might just look like a variant of corporate social responsibility, but it hints at the more symbiotic manner in which corporate and charitable organizations can — and likely should — work.

A recent study by two assistant professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management found that while consumers» overall behaviour is shifting toward greater social responsibility, the rise in ethical, or green consumption hasn't made people more altruistic.

Here are the facts: 77 percent of Americans look at the corporate citizenship of a company before deciding whether they want to work there, while a whopping 85 percent of employees say they'd quit if it came to light that their employer had negative social responsibility practices.

At a recent Nasdaq luncheon Q&A, Schultz was challenged about his expansive view of «corporate social responsibility»: Was it not the role of the corporation simply to maximize profits for shareholders, who in turn can use the proceeds to do good in the world if they choose?

As I've argued frequently on this blog, we ought to reserve the term «corporate social responsibility» to refer to obligations that a company owes to society at large, in some sense, rather than responsibilities it owes to particular individuals.

Ante Glavas, an associate professor with a specialization in organizational behaviour at Kedge Business School in Marseille, France, says employees of companies that promote social responsibility tend to feel more connected to their work: «They are more engaged, because instead of leaving values at the door when they leave home, they can feel like they are doing something good that aligns with who they are as a person.»

She was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law for the Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility course.

Ali Edelstein joined KDA in 2017 as the organization's first Director of Social Responsibility, after serving as Senior Sustainability Advisor at Yum!

Denise Taschereau, manager of social and environmental responsibility at Mountain Equipment Co-op, was at the BALLE BC conference and said Wilson demonstrated a marked lack of understanding of the issues surrounding offshore manufacturing.

He launched that challenge right from his first interaction with the class at the program orientation dinner, as he addressed a subject he is particularly passionate about: social responsibility.

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It signals to the rest of Corporate America that many investors now look at social responsibility as an item just as deserving of funding in the bond market as any other core business activity.

«It's clear that the Kremlin will use any means at its disposal to spread propaganda and misinformation, and we each bear some responsibility for exercising good judgment and a healthy amount of skepticism when it comes to the things we read and spread on social media,» Warner said.

Consumers and the media are looking much more holistically at issues of social and environmental responsibility — and social transformation

Extremely well written... also motivational and covers beyond what the title suggests... You will learn that at the very least, 1/3 of people make purchasing decisions based on social responsibility.

Global Salon Global Finance sat down with Ommeed Sathe, vice president and head of impact investing at Newark, New Jersey - based insurer Prudential Financial, to discuss how corporate social responsibility and profitable investing can go hand in hand.

«The only way the boycott will be effective is if it creates enough reputational damage that regulation becomes a reasonable option or if advertisers leave en masse,» says Brayden King, a professor at the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management who studies how social movement activists influence corporate social responsibility and policymaking.

Canadian embassies and trade commissions have aggressively promoted the mining industry's agenda on foreign soil, while large - scale public media campaigns, both at home and abroad, promote corporate social responsibility practices.

While working at Bestinver he created the «Fondo de Ayuda para África» platform, with the objective of centralising the company's Corporate Social Responsibility activities.

Before joining Glass Lewis, Courteney worked on corporate governance and corporate social responsibility issues at the California Public Employees» Retirement System and the Colorado Public Employees» Retirement Association.

At the UNO College of Business Administration (CBA), we are preparing students to become professionals with academic acumen and a sense of social responsibility.

Courteney holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in business administration, with a concentration in corporate social responsibility from Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.

Calgary Economic Development's Mandate The Rise of Shared Value and Four Other Trends in CSR - Forbes There couldn't have been a better way to approach the end of 2011 than at the ambitious and cheerful Net Impact conference followed by Business for Social Responsibility's (BSR) annual conference.

Oct. 03 — Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, discusses the responsibilities of social media and his views on bitcoin with Bloomberg's Emily Chang at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in Los Angeles.

The company has at times appeared anxious to cultivate this image, pouring funding into «corporate responsibility» initiatives to produce «social change» — exemplified by Google Ideas.

Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, Workshop: CSR Governance: Assessing Ownership and Accountability of Sustainability at Your Organization, Toronto, ON, October 22, 2010.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

To repeat: a cursory look at the nations of the world makes it clear that the important differences in social responsibility and freedom are between the democratic types (of both capitalist and socialist economic system) and the despotic types, not between capitalism and socialism as such.

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

Christian activity has been responsible for introducing new concepts of social responsibility, while at the same time alleviating some of the suffering, injustice, and oppression caused by society.

We noted at the outset that reformed spirituality is concerned to emphasize not only the cultivation of this personal triadic relationship with God and others, but also to cultivate a sense of responsibility to the larger social dimension of our lives, including the affairs of state and nation.

At a Consultation in 1982 at Grand Rapids in the United States of America on «The Relation of Evangelism and Social Responsibility», the Consultation explained the Lausanne statement, concerning the primacy of evangelism, in two wayAt a Consultation in 1982 at Grand Rapids in the United States of America on «The Relation of Evangelism and Social Responsibility», the Consultation explained the Lausanne statement, concerning the primacy of evangelism, in two wayat Grand Rapids in the United States of America on «The Relation of Evangelism and Social Responsibility», the Consultation explained the Lausanne statement, concerning the primacy of evangelism, in two ways.

They had been at least minor movers and shakers in their communities, people who felt some responsibility for what went on around them largely because of a match between the moral teachings they grew up on in church and the possibilities inherent in their middle - class social roles.

Instead they reaffirmed the centrality of evangelism but at the same time insisted that social justice is also a central part of our biblical responsibility.