BAT Industries – Tackling the inner city blues

August 01, 1993 Sir Patrick Sheehy's report for the Home Secretary on the future management of the police force has put the spotlight onto the chairman of BAT Industries, a £19 billion world-wide business employing 200,000 people. Read more >

The business of bettering schools

August 01, 1993 Despite figures showing the growing involvement of business in school management and raising standards, there remains a hard core of under-achievers which two new initiatives aim to help. Read more >

Regeneration

August 01, 1993 At a seminar in London on July 30, a group of community development specialists heard Joan Shapiro from the South Shore Bank of Chicago explain how her bank is making money through reviving distressed communities. Read more >

Piling on the pressure

August 01, 1993 At the fifth national TEC conference, the mood was of a still-young movement maturing and facing the challenges, while a government speakers exhorted them to greater effort. Read more >

Twenty Green Reporting Tips

August 01, 1993 Many companies are responding to the green agenda by published corporate environmental performance reports, but some are so poorly prepared they become counter-productive; here is how to get it right. Read more >

Employee involvement

August 01, 1993 Two thirds of employee volunteers (67%) believe it is important that senior management set an example by becoming involved in the community themselves and nearly three quarters (71%) prefer to chose their own area of voluntary activity rather than be led by the company. Read more >