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Customer Dialog Drives Sustainable Product Innovations
Yvonne Benkert, MAN SE
MAN SEStakeholders present companies with very different challenges. The MAN Group responds by inviting stakeholders to communicate their expectations and opinions. To this end, MAN conducts systemized surveys every year and discusses specific issues with selected stakeholders. As customers represent a very important stakeholder group for MAN and also have a major influence on whether efficient products are used, they are central to our corporate responsibility activities. In 2012 we further intensified our dialog with customers at the two leading trade fairs for our industry: IAA Commercial Vehicles and the SMM maritime trade fair. more[...]
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Sustainable Project in “27 de Octubre” Community of Chimbote
Francesca Carnesella, Camposol and Copeinca
CopeincaBy mid-2011, COPEINCA made contact with the Stromme Foundation and the NGO Tierra de Niños with the aim of evaluating sustainability projects with surrounding communities. The company wanted to contribute toward the development of the surrounding families near the Chimbote industrial plant. They began working together in order to define a meaningful strategy for the future of the “27 de Octubre” residents. more[...]
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Should the UN Global Compact have sharper teeth?
Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of BusinessThe Author
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Three New Year’s Resolutions for The Responsible Entrepreneur
Carol Sanford, InterOctave GlobalThe Author
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International Peer Review to focus on Germany’s Sustainable Development Policy – Initial Decisions now taken
German Council for Sustainable DevelopmentThe Federal Government has officially requested the drawing up of a second international peer review of its sustainable development policy. In keeping with the 2012 progress report on the National Sustainable Development Strategy, the respective invitations have been issued to internationally recognized experts. more[...]
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Blood on your mobile phone? Capturing the gains for artisanal miners, poor workers and women
Dr. Dev Nathan, Institute for Human DevelopmentCapturing the Gains research into the global production of mobile phones traces the connections between armed factions, poverty and violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and mobile phone users worldwide. The critical link is coltan, or columbite tantalite. It is the raw material for tantalum, an essential mineral in the manufacture of mobile phones, computers and other electronic equipment. more[...]
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A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility
Prof. Adam Lindgreen, University of CardiffA Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility provides a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge theories and research that can lead to a more multifaceted understanding of corporate social responsibility in its various forms, the pressures and conflicts that result from these different understandings, and some potential solutions for reconciling them. more[...]
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Managing Biofuels Portfolio Risk – The Role of Financial and Risk Analysis
DeloitteThis white paper explores managing biofuels portfolio risk – the stakeholder’s targeted value approach and the financial and risk analysis roles. The Department of Navy (DON), Department of Energy, and United States Department of Agriculture are together pursuing an ambitious program to support military requirements for viable and cost effective biofuels and to accelerate the growth of a national biofuels industry to address strategic energy security concerns. Source: All information taken from the website. more[...]
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Women's Empowerment Principles - Equality Means Business
United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)The Women's Empowerment Principles are a set of Principles for business offering guidance on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. They are the result of a collaboration between the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, part of UN Women) and the United Nations Global Compact. The development of the Principles included an international multi-stakeholder consultation process, which was launched in March 2009. more[...]
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Innovating for a Brighter Future: The Role of Business in Achieving the MDGs
Dalberg Global Development AdvisorsAssesses the contribution that the private sector has made to UN development goals, including progress made since 2000. The report identifies the most significant and scalable trends. (Source: UN Global compact) more[...]
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Coming of Age: UN-Private Sector Collaboration Since 2000
United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)Collaboration between the United Nations and the private sector has become ingrained in the way the United Nations and its Agencies, Funds and Programmes function; but it was not always this way. The report charts the evolution of UN-business engagement since 2000. Source: UN Global Compact more[...]
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