International News Round Up Sept 2003

September 01, 2003 International News Round Up Sept 2003 Read more >

Elena Bonfiglioli: the full interview

August 31, 2003 The full Briefing interview with Elena Bonfiglioli, who six months ago swapped her advocacy hat and convenor cloak at CSR Europe, for the garb of the day-to-day CSR practitioner. Briefing asked Microsoft’s new CSR manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa how she feels in her new clothes. Read more >

Partnerships: an irrelevancy…or worse, a distraction?

July 01, 2003 For some, our usual round-up of community partnerships adds little or nothing to important CSR challenges. We disagree. Read more >

Diversity: bridging the gender gap… and the age barrier

July 01, 2003 Monitoring, measuring, benchmarking and reporting are the unglamorous but essential tools first to identify and then to overcome persistent discrimination in employment. Read more >

Suppliers: corporate responsibility from field to fork

July 01, 2003 We are coming up against limits of what consumer driven labels can achieve, unless the business case can be demonstrated. Read more >

International: open for business

July 01, 2003 There is a certain irony in the fact that transparency is a word so frequently used, but so frequently misunderstood. At last, tangible examples are bringing clarity to the term, and possible benefits to all. Read more >

Ellen West: CSR across the pond (part one)

July 01, 2003 European CSR practitioners are wont to comment that their US colleagues just “don’t get it Read more >

Mark Eckstein: facilitating corporate citizenship

July 01, 2003 The International Finance Corporation is at the forefront of efforts to support responsible business practices in emerging markets. The Equator Principles, launched in June, prove the world's commercial financiers are also beginning to see value in responsible lending to the private sector. Read more >

Roger Cowe: are CSR managers in line for a promotion?

July 01, 2003 The recent furore over executive pay demonstrates that the inner sanctum of many corporate boardrooms still remain beyond the bounds of the humble CSR manager. Here Roger Cowe makes the case for CSR considerations to be promoted onto the corporate governance agenda. Read more >

Never the twain should meet?

July 01, 2003 Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility experts rarely have occasion to speak with one another. But the time is nigh for the two to talk, argues Rob Lake, and where better to start than inviting CSR specialists into the boardroom. Read more >