Businesses That Engage With Society: The Financial Times highlights some socially responsible businesses sprouting up in Brazil.
“The feelgood stories coming out of these companies are by no means the norm. Many Brazilian companies are still far behind and stuck at the stage of merely thinking about the issue.”
Cityboy on Corporate Social Responsibility: A skeptic’s takes on CSR, saying that greed will always come before altruism.
“Frankly, the idea that huge, rapacious corporate entities think we’re naive enough to believe that they’re not just out to make as much wonga as humanly possible makes me cry into my beer.”
Is Your Business Useless? A writer on NewMediaHire responds to Umair Haque’s article for the Harvard Business blog.
“Value consumption is driven by relationships and production is fueled by a new kind of social responsibility.”
Creating Opportunity: Engineering Course Empowers Princeton’s Social Entrepreneurs: Hilary Parker showcases the “SE Lab” course at Princeton, taught by Gordon Bloom, the Dean’s Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship in the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education.
“After my own sense of frustration due to lack of support in launching different projects, I vowed I would try to provide opportunities for students to have ways to turn their visions into reality.”
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