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The beauty of the sustainability sector is that it recognises gender issues aren’t confined to within office walls
August 26, 2013
The business case for gender equality has really taken off. With the help of reports from McKinsey, Forum for the Future and Oxfam, the message to boost opportunities for women in business is finally getting out. Getting women into leadership positions and particularly on the board, is an especially hot topic. As recruitment firm Korn/Ferry …
Twitter and Freedom from Fear
August 19, 2013
The use of Twitter to communicate bomb, death and rape threats, and engage in misogynistic speech, has been brought to the fore in recent weeks. This relates to a number of high profile cases in which prominent female figures – such as Labour MP Stella Creasy, the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, and the Guardian journalist …
Corporate social responsibility in Asia: understanding business from beginning to end
August 12, 2013
In a recent interview with Sara Bice of the University of Melbourne, Professor Jeremy Moon discusses Corporate Responsibility in Asia*. This interview was originally published in The Conversation ——————— As Asian economies grow and corporate ventures become increasingly multinational, big challenges are emerging for corporate social responsibility and business ethics. But how can Australian corporations advance socially …
Beer and Corporate Social Responsibility
August 5, 2013
The occasion of International Beer Day prompts me to think aloud on this one … and thinking aloud is one of the (usually positive) features of English pubs famous for their distinctive bitters, ales and stouts… which may or may not be associated with Pliny the Elder’s motto ‘in vino veritas’. By virtue of the …
The future of business school teaching: the challenge of sustainability
July 25, 2013
Programs like the MSc in CSR here at the University of Nottingham have played an important role in ensuring that citizens are well equipped to understand ethical considerations in navigating complex and often contradictory demands from business and society. The main aim has been to ensure that natural resources and societal stakeholders are taken into …
Business School Staff vs MScs cricket match report
July 13, 2013
The Business School staff team continued their run of industrious defeats on Wednesday 26th June against a squad of talented MSc players in a fine day of cricket at Grove Farm. The match ended in dramatic fashion, with the final outcome of the game in the balance up until the last ball of the game …
Staff vs MBA: Match Report – The smell of victory in the afternoon
In cricket, catches win matches. Runs are nice and economical bowling not to be sniffed at. But the true art of cricket is catching. Keep that in mind. The game began amid the kind of low hanging cloud that makes an MBA pace bowler salivate. Yet, favourable bowling conditions could not stop Simon M (24) …
News from a BESTS Scholar in Toronto
June 24, 2013
I had read their work. I had written about their contributions. I had even admired them from afar. Now it was time to spend some quality academic time with some of the most established CSR and Marketing scholars at Schulich School of Business (York University, Toronto) as part of my BESTS award from the University …
Is Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Practice an Emerging Profession?
June 18, 2013
I recently moved to the UK after writing my PhD dissertation on the topic of professional ethics (at the University of Toronto). Upon arriving at ICCSR, I was interested to learn that several organizations in the UK (e.g. GACSO and CRG) are considering establishing professional bodies (or institutes) for Corporate Responsibility (CR) and Sustainability practitioners. What …
Gender and Responsible Business – What’s the link?
June 10, 2013
Like many feminists, I have spent much of my life encouraging, supporting, and pressurizing policy-makers to advance gender equality through legislation, and through gender sensitive budgeting and policy development. To this end I have worked with government representatives in the UK, Australia, and internationally, and with numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In the 1980s and 90s …
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