Monthly Archives: October 2009

The last few weeks have seen a concentration of stories relating to women in business hitting the headlines. Apparently, female-managed hedge funds lost less money than male-managed ones, Harriet Harman will shake things up in the City and get more women on boards, and we can invest in a fund that specialises in gender-diverse companies.
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Whilst a significant proportion of global listed companies have, over the past few years, chosen to represent their approach to CSR in the exclusive setting of an annual standalone publication, others have attempted to deploy the latest internet technologies, in a bid to bring this slice of corporate information to life organically ‘on the page’.
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The United States Chamber of Commerce is a not-for-profit business federation that lobbies and campaigns for the interests of businesses across the US. That’s the idea, anyway. Right now, the US Senate is debating whether to pass the Waxman-Markey bill on climate change, a piece of fairly serious legislation, and the Chamber has stated its [...]

Tomorrow evening I shall be speaking in front of 150 MBA students at the launch of the Net Impact Chapter at Leeds University Business School (UK). Net Impact’s mission is “to make a positive impact on society by growing and strengthening a community of new leaders who use the power of business to make a [...]

The other day we received an email here at CO3 Towers, alerting us to a number of forthcoming CSR industry events that we might wish to consider attending. Nothing too unusual in that – we are a CSR consultancy after all. But the email got us thinking: what are the respective merits of these numerous [...]