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[Spot Sri Lanka - Spot.lk - Daily Sri Lankan News] How CSR relates with HR - Business & Financial News - Spot Sri ...: HR departments are responsible for many of the key systems and processes, including recruitment, training and communications, on which effective delivery of CSR initiatives depends. "HR can give substance to company aspirations to be - and be seen to be - a good employer by championing policies on diversity, work-life balance, employee involvement and training and development," the report said.

[Safe High Return Investments Downers Grove] Investing With A Conscience | Safe High Return Investments Downers ...: At the same time, however, most investors still want or need to earn a reasonable return on their portfolios.Socially responsible investing (”SRI”) seeks to reconcile these two objectives by helping investors create diversified portfolios designed to deliver an acceptable level of performance, while at the same time excluding companies that don’t meet the their ethical standards. SRI investing recognizes that corporate responsibility and societal concerns are an important part of many investment decisions””particularly with the world’s increased focus on sustainability and climate change, among others.

[Dynamic Business] Doing ethical business overseas | Dynamic Business: Conversely, doing business with ethical suppliers supports their benevolent practices, which then spreads as success of the business grows. Initiatives such as the Fair Trade movement, which supports the social and environmental sustainability of producers and suppliers through positive commerce, are common in markets such as the United Kingdom and Western Europe where consumers demand such standards.

[M'illumino] INSEAD Professor incites corporate irresponsibility « M'illumino: Vermaelen argues that the MBA Oath is a misplaced response to the GFC.  He suggests the crisis was due to a lack of financial expertise at the highest echelons in the financial industry.  He further says “So the solution is not more ethics or pledges, but more finance education and better forecasting and risk management models.”  Now we are getting to the crux of the article.  Professor Vermaelen’s motives are perhaps to discredit a competitor, Harvard Business School, and market his finance faculty at INSEAD as the world’s saviour from further financial meltdowns. Might I suggest to the good Professor that the GFC has produced a very significant re-evaluation of our society and what it means to lead and conduct business with integrity.   A significant segment of society believes that shareholder value goes beyond mere financial returns to shareholders.

[Opinion] The pledge remains a misplaced response to global financial crisis: For example, a non-profit organisation can make it clear that the objective is to leave the shareholders with nothing, and this is of course ethical. So, if you want to promote "global environmental prosperity", you should set up your own ... money but about doing good to promote global environmental prosperity" then the management did not behave unethically, even if they were fully aware that their policies were expected to generate zero returns for their shareholders. ...

[How Online] The Rise of the Ethical Consumer | How Online: Since 1995, the number of socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds, which generally avoid buying shares of companies that profit from such things as tobacco, oil or child labor, has grown from 55 to about 260. SRI funds now manage approximately 11 percent of all the money invested in U.S. financial markets —

[Today from The OBE Community] What Does Social Responsible Investing Mean? | Our Big Earth: It is what we choose to do with the money we earn, and another significant opportunity to ”˜vote’ on the way business and corporate interests behave. This expression has its roots in the campaign to divest from businesses that cozied up to the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 70’s, and has come to be known as ”˜Socially Responsible Investment’ (SRI).

[Comments for Sustainablog] Are Large, For-Profit Corporations Intrinsically Less Ethical ...: So, we see that ethical lapses are something that is associated with certain individuals independent of their type of business or the scale of their company.  In fact, large publically held corporations are under more intense scrutiny by shareholders, NGOs, regulators, and activists, not to mention lawyers who are always attracted to the “deep pockets.”

[DealBook] Debt Crisis Tests Dubai's Ruler - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com: Destroy (Permanent destruction) of environment, sea/marine life, adding pollution, extreme wastage’s of resources, environment disaster, behaved like the law of Jungle / Man eater Tiger (Committing one destruction after another - First Palm, second Palm, Third Palm, World, Islands, extending beaches, canals, lakes, etc.). Destruction of Corals, fishes, marine life;

[Ethical Man blog] BBC - Ethical Man blog: Can rural America hold the world to ransom?: Big Coal created the "clean coal" ads, and the phrase is much more mature as a marketing term than as a proven set of technologies, even though there are several Federally-funded coal research centers (yes, our evil national government is sepnding a lot of tax dollars to help the coal industry). Acid rain is no myth, even natural gas fired turbines need scrubbers to remove the NOX created from the high combustion temperatures.

[The BrandBuilder Blog] Let's get constructive about the future of Social Media ...: What seems more logical is a slightly more operational approach to both social media training and social media certifications/accreditation: Instead of looking at Social Media as some sort of broad ranging field of study with an endless list of applications, look at Social Media as a skill-set that applies differently to each function within a business. In other words, give social media training and certs specific professional focus.

[The Business Ethics Blog] The Business Ethics Blog: Can Ethics Be Taught in Business Schools ...: While business schools have excelled at producing graduates that demonstrate competence in engineering investment products based on complex mathematical models (derivatives, ETFs, Swaps etc.) and implementing their exceptional ability at marketing and optimizing productivity, little has been done to enlighten the student as to how to use his/her acquired intellectual virtues in a manner which promotes morality. Although students leave the university environment excelling with intellectual resources, there is no attempt being made to demonstrate how these attributes can be used to habituate excellence of character.

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » OzoneGate: The Montreal Protocol is the most successful environmental treaty ever (the only successful environmental treaty?). The hole has been gradually shrinking and is expected to disappear later this century.

[Mises Economics Blog] Sustainability: An Assault on Economics - Mises Daily - Mises ...: Back to whales: in the late 70s, I recall a math prof explaining why it might make more sense for whalers to extinguish a species rather than converve, even if the whalers 'owned' the whales. I can't remember his explanation, but I'm guessing it's along these lines: the profit from harvesting all of the whales ASAP could be invested;

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