Loews Hotels employees say that CEO Jonathan Tisch formed the hotel industry’s first comprehensive community service and outreach program in 1990. Continuing to evolve each year, it still functions under the same name, “Good Neighbor program.”
As the world stood transfixed at the ascension of the 33 Chilean miners from the depths of the earth, a wonderful feeling arose that is all too absent in these dire and dour times: Jubilation!--at both the miracle of their resurrection and at humankind’s capacities to collectively turn things ar
Another food fight has broken out on campus -- this time over a Wall Street Journal special report (August 23, 2010) that featured University of Michigan professor Aneel Karnani’s “case against corporate social responsibility.” Professors all over the world have pilloried (though a few
It can be helpful to see the world through another’s eyes. So how does CSR look through the prism of the people, culture, and historical perspective of a land halfway across the world from our homeland?
Wanted: High potential corporate executives to work, at 50% salary reduction, for up to six months with global nonprofit to bring business solutions to humanitarian problems. Warning: Could lose promotional visibility with corporate officers.
The “cola wars” between Coke and Pepsi in the 1970s were all about tasting good. Visiting newly built shopping malls, consumers would take a blind taste test of Coke and Pepsi—then state their preference. Who won? Both sides enjoyed annual double-digit sales growth for the next three
By Cheryl Kiser, Managing Director of the Lewis Initiative at Babson College
While BCLC was incorporated ten years ago, its spiritual founding happened the year before at a conference called “Corporate Citizenship and Globalization.”
Today, March 22, is World Water Day (WWD). WWD is held annually on this day as a means to focus attention on the importance of fresh water and advocating for the sustainable management of fresh water resources.
By Cheryl Kiser, Managing Director of the Lewis Initiative at Babson College
