corporate social responsibility program Articles
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Ebook: A Practical Guide for CSR Implementation
Looking to implement a Corporate Social Responsibility Program in your organization and not sure where to start? Here is a small eBook to guide you through the typical steps of an effective implementation, you will learn how-to: Prepare Your Implementation Sequence Your Implementation with great SMART Goals Track and Monitor Progress Enjoy and as always, share ...
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Corporate volunteerism comes clean (and comes of age)
Here the author examines how a growing number of companies that have adopted corporate social responsibility programs, especially those that harness the immense power of volunteerism, are building the business case for these social investments and encouraging them to take root and grow so they are more than just a passing fad. Jeff Schwartz, CEO of Timberland, a $1.5 billion New Hampshire-based ...
By AHC Group
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Social response capitalism: Product development strategies for 21st-century innovators and investors
A new set of industrial products — from cars to computers — has shown that leading firms now compete on price, technical quality, and social response. This excerpt from Piasecki's latest book, World Inc., describes the revolutionary development of social response product development (SRPD) within Toyota and Hewlett-Packard. AN ARGUMENT WAITING TO HAPPEN: SUPERIOR PRODUCTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE ...
By AHC Group
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4 Steps to Engaging Stakeholders in your Sustainability Reporting Process
In a recent blog post, we outlined four simple steps to a materiality assessment that you should consider when developing a corporate social responsibility (CSR) or sustainability program. Now that you’ve identified your internal and external stakeholders and defined the key indicators you plan to measure, the next step is to outline a stakeholder engagement strategy. Below we listed four ...
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Four Years Since Rana Plaza: Retailers urged to increase supply chain transparency
Today marks the four-year anniversary of a tragic incident in which 1,134 workers were killed, and thousands more injured, when an eight-story garment factory came crashing down in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital. The Rana Plaza collapse attracted significant media attention toward popular apparel brands sourcing from the factory due to their lack of supply chain oversight. This event and other ...
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Once a response company, always a response company
Lamor has responded to oil spill and environmental disasters throughout its history. Deepwater Horizon in 2010. I’m not sure you can call yourself a response company if you didn’t have some type of involvement. It’s almost like a right of passage when it comes to the response world (OSR), the gap year or university days of the oil spill response. The ‘just in time’ ...
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Five Ways to Become the MacGyver of Sustainability Reporting!
First things first, why should you track and report on sustainability? There are many ways in which organizations who report on corporate sustainability benefit both internally and externally. From an internal standpoint, Sustainability Reporting provides a deeper understanding of a business’s risks, opportunities, strategic direction, operating efficiency, and how they rank in the market ...
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MSDS evolution: from document to data to globalization
OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) was first adopted in 1983 for the manufacturing sector. In 1987, the agency expanded the scope of coverage to include all industries where employees are potentially exposed to hazardous chemicals. The catalyst for HCS was the powerful Right-to-Know (RTK) movement that gained momentum in the late 1970s, first at the state level, as it forged ahead to ...
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What is Corporate Social Responsibility and Why is it Important?
(Read orignial story here) Does a company’s commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) factor into your purchasing decisions? More than ever before, consumers are pushing companies to be environmentally aware. In 2019, the Governance & Accountability Institute found that 90% of companies in the S&P 500 Index had published a sustainability or corporate responsibility report ...
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