Results for February, 2002
Health is everybody’s business
February 01, 2002 "Companies must commit to the fight against HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria," reads a recent World Economic Forum report. In our first guest editorial, Robert Davies asks why businesses must see health as an integral CSR issue. In rich and poor countries affordable access to health and medicines has emerged as a high profile challenge placing unfamiliar demands on businesses Read more >
Disability: CSR’s elephant in the bedroom?
February 01, 2002 2003 is the European Year of Disabled People, but who's noticing? Susan Scott-Parker examines why so few companies seem to be truly engaging with this key CSR issue, despite the clear business case for doing so. Read more >
Retaining Talent: can CCI provide the missing corporate glue?
February 01, 2002 In the fifth in our series on mainstreaming CSR, Mike Tuffrey examines current issues in human resource management and asks whether the latest emphasis on volunteering withstands scrutiny from a business case perspective. Read more >
Roger Cowe: 15 minutes of fame?
February 01, 2002 Does CSR need the photo opportunities of street riots and anti-globalisation protestors to get in the spotlight? Roger Cowe takes the World Economic Forum as a test bed to judge the media?s priorities, while also questioning if the media has its own house in order. Read more >
Contributions: Do companies give enough
February 01, 2002 Latest figures on corporate contributions show a more confusing picture than the usual story of UK companies lagging their US counterparts in the generosity stakes. Read more >
The Briefing Interview: Gareth Williamson, Smartchange
February 01, 2002 When many Generation Xers were chasing the big bucks of the dot.com boom one chose another course, we ask one of CSR's brightest young things why he put his chips on a dot.org dream. Read more >
Health: The business of life and death
February 01, 2002 Millions are dying each year through poverty and the lack of the basic healthcare many of us take for granted. Now the economic case for action is crystal clear. Read more >
Managing CSR: The importance of leadership
February 01, 2002 Within companies, who should really drive the CSR agenda forward? Is the cult of leadership and the charismatic CEO overstated? Read more >