CSR Futures: the practitioner perspective
August 2, 2012
One of the highlights of CSR Futures was the practitioner panel, who were asked to consider the future of CSR and Sustainability, the following summarises the key points: Gerry Boyle, Head of Business Relations, Oxfam Emphasised the importance of ensuring that corporate sustainability agendas embrace social as well as environmental impacts. That there remains a …
CSR or sustainability education – the practitioners perspective (or wearing many hats).
July 18, 2012
As a precursor to CSR Futures – the conference marking the 10th anniversary of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility – Alumni of the MBA in CSR and MA/MSc in CSR programmes – now working in related fields, were invited to share their views on the profession with students past and present. In particular, …
Conflict Diamonds: A Hollywood Ending?
June 26, 2012
On a particularly rainy day I found myself re-watching Blood Diamond, the Hollywood blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou. It tracks the fate of a prisoner of war (Hounsou) who is separated from his family during the civil war in Sierra Leone. His path crosses with diamond smuggler DiCaprio, and they both end up …
Presenting to the media: a survivors’ guide.
May 21, 2012
Following the latest week long Sustainable Decisions and Organisations MBA Module (see changing behaviours ), John Ware former BBC Panorama Journalist and a regular at the ‘faux’ press conference offered the following advice to students. With his permission, we thought it was advice worth sharing more broadly. ———— I want to stress again that NO CRITICISM was intended last Friday when abuse was …
Doctoral CSR Research: future themes, novel methods and getting published!
May 2, 2012
On the 25th of April, the ICCSR welcomed 24 PhD students from Europe, the United States, Australia and UK for the ICCSR 10th Anniversary PhD workshop titled ‘Experimental Economics & Qualitative Research in Business and Society Studies’. During this day, we were able to share ideas, exchange tips and discuss issues faced during the exciting …
CSR Futures: Knowledge and Practice
April 25, 2012
Recent ICCSR symposiums and conferences have addressed more narrow topics such as: ‘Business, Government and CSR’; ‘Comparative CSR’; ‘Learning about Responsible Business from Stakeholders’; ‘Corporations and Human Rights’; and ‘Corporate Innovation and Sustainable Community Development’, ‘Stakeholder Democracy’. Others, in partnership with our colleagues at Nottingham’s Malaysia and China campuses, have addressed regional questions: ‘CSR in …
Sustainability reporting on the SGX: A driver for better business?
April 16, 2012
As I laid out the name badges on the decadently dressed registration table, rifling through my bag for a Nottingham branded pen, I sat back and smiled. My guests would soon arrive, and the delicately robed perch-tables would, I hoped, be awash with neatly placed nibbles and confidently extended hands, aptly framed with the magnificent panoramic view …
Margin Call
March 22, 2012
Margin Call was the final film in this year’s series Doing the Business, a series designed to use the medium of film to encourage discussion and debate on social and ethical issues in business. It was the most mainstream of the films we have screened this year, with an academy award nomination for the screenplay …
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
March 13, 2012
Or officially POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. That’s for sponsorship reasons which will be made clear shortly. The Greatest Movie is the third movie in our annual Doing the Business film season, in partnership with the Broadway Cinema. Launched in 2011, The Greatest Movie is, narrowly, about product placement and, more broadly, …
China’s Three Gorges Dam an Expensive Lesson?
February 29, 2012
The prize-winning documentary “Up the Yangtze”, shown in Nottingham last night as the second event in the “Doing the Business film series organised by the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, is a heart-wrenching story of the sad fate of a peasant family forced to leave their home as it is flooded by the giant …
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