The Good Company: The movement for corporate social responsibility has won the battle of ideas
The Good Company: The movement for corporate social responsibility has won the battle of ideas By The Economist Full report
Helping Nonprofits Do Business
Helping Nonprofits Do Business By Heinz-Peter Elstrodt, Anamaria Schindler, and Andréa C. Waslander, McKinsey Consulting McKinsey Quarterly illustrates ways that businesses can assist NGOs in developing plans to help both sectors increase the success rate for development projects. Full report
Cultivating Environmental NGO-Business Partnerships
Cultivating Environmental NGO-Business Partnerships Summary: From creating a green hotel certification in preparation for the 2008 Olympics to advising Yunnan tea plantations on nontoxic pest control to partnership with factories to develop sulfur dioxide emissions regulation, environmental NGOs in China are developing innovative new ways to partner with business. View the full report
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance By James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco, and SEKN research team, Harvard Business School Full report
Business/NGO Partnerships—What’s The Payback
Business/NGO Partnerships—What’s The Payback, Source: Ethical Corporation, by Roger Cowe Full report
NGO & Business Partnerships: Battling system failure by Bill Shireman
Abstract: system failure by Bill Shireman The partnership model demands innovation in the outlook of both business and non-governmental organisations, says Shireman, and CAW found that approach worked principally “because we focused on what united us rather than what separated us”. Future 500 brings companies and NGOs and activist investors together to tackle a range […]
Avian flu: Expanding global vaccine production
“If governments are to be prepared for a potential avian-flu pandemic, they must bring pharmaceutical companies and health organizations into the strategic-planning process.” By Kenneth Bonheure, Pierre Keller, and Ken Somers Source: McKinsey Weekly Web exclusive, July 2006 With avian influenza spreading from Asia to Africa and Europe, governments are under increasing public pressure to […]
Private Environmental Governance and the Sustainability Transition: Functions and Impacts of NGO-Business Partnerships by Philip
Abstract: The report looks into whether firms involved with NGOs for the purpose of furthering sustainable development, are actually doing so. A key concern of the report is that NGO-business “voluntary initiatives” may weaken traditional engines of corporate responsibility such as governmental and inter-governmental regulation as well as critical NGO and civil society activism. Utting […]
