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Starting the search for ‘Global Value’ in Vienna

Last week, Sareh Pouryousefi and I attended the kick-off meeting of the new EU FP7 research project – “Global Value.” This is a 2.5 million euro project to develop an innovative framework and tool-kit for assessing the contribution of multi-national corporations (MNCs) towards goals of the millennium declaration – including sustainable development, human rights, transparency, …

Beyond 2015: Moving Forward on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

The role and impact of business in development continues to generate a lot of discussion and debate.  At CSR Futures the ICCSR’s 10th Anniversary Conference, a track was dedicated to discuss the contribution of business to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  Participants in the track were eager to discuss whether business as development stakeholders …