Texas Corporate Responsibility

Summit, 2011

The Council for Corporate Responsibility will be holding a summit at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas on September 14th. The Summit will feature three seminars presented by our guest speakers from Baker Hughes, the Lumina Foundation, and Johnson Controls, as well as a roundtable discussion, all designed to inform companies large and small on how to better integrate corporate responsibility into their organizations' value system ...

Conducting and Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility

An exciting trend in the global business community is that corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to grow rapidly – even through tough economic times. CSR has become ubiquitous throughout the business world, to the point that it's no longer a "nice to have" component of business. Today, CSR is a ...

Can a Corporation Have a Conscience?

As early as 1982, Harvard professors Kenneth E. Goodpaster and John B. Mathews, Jr. asked the question "Can a Corporation Have a Conscience?" Nearly thirty years later, the widely accepted concept of corporate responsibility suggests that the traditional definition of organizational success has evolved beyond merely generating a profit. Instead, corporations are more likely to consider the impact on stakeholders who may be directly or indirectly affected by business decisions ...

As Wall Street Welcomes GRI, Executives Put CSR Reporting in Perspective

Annual reporting isn't the most exciting topic of discussion for even the geekiest of people. To then expand the discussion to integrated reporting—when companies integrate their financial report with sustainability and CSR indicators—is a formidable task ...

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Seven Myths of Corporate Governance

This case examines seven commonly accepted myths about corporate governance. How can we expect managerial behavior and firm performance to improve, if practitioners continue to rely on myths rather than facts to guide their decisions? ...

Fair Trade Coffee - A Status Report

This morning cup of coffee I'm drinking means I'm not alone. The International Coffee Organization reports that my cup is one of 1.4 billion to be consumed on our planet today, and that even though the U.S. will account for 400 million of today's cups, we're only number 22 on the world list in per capita coffee consumption ...

Socially Responsible Investing: Reaching New Heights

We at Equal Exchange appreciate Ted Ketcham's status report on Fair Trade coffee in the Winter 10/11 edition of GreenMoney Journal ...

Good Corporate Citizenship is good for Business

In an article posted on Forbes.com by David Vogel entitled "CSR Doesn't Pay," Vogel outlines why he thinks Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is all well and good in writing but has little reward for companies that do abide by CSR ethics, and few punishments for companies that don't. He states, "Corporate managers should try and act responsibly. But they shouldn't expect the market to reward them for doing so" ...

Regional Collaboration as a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

Collaboration requires transparency, reciprocity and accountability as essential elements. Most collaborative models require leadership within a decentralized environment that advocates and encourages high levels of communication and participation in decision-making and goal setting. Effective collaboration require sharing knowledge and the building of consensus within e group. Teams that work collaboratively can obtain greater resources ...