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Women's Empowerment Principles Make It Clear: Equality Means Business

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, United Nations Global Compact, Women, Fortune 500, UN Global Compact, United Nations, Glass Ceiling, Discrimination, Women in Business, Un Women, International Women's Day, Video, World News
Kiyotaka Akasaka

Let's face it, while the glass ceiling may have hundreds of thousands or even millions of cracks, it is made of sturdy silica and has yet to crumble at our feet.

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The Road From Ruin: Why We Are In The Driver's Seat

Steven G. Brant | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Business for Social Responsibility, UN Global Compact, The Economist, Arianna's Reading, Books, Book Reviews, Harvard Business School, Corporate Social Responsibility, The Road From Ruin, Professionalization, Books News
Steven G. Brant

The progressive community can choose to transform the business world from within, or it can try to destroy the corporate sector altogether, as nothing but a harm to society. The choice is up to us.

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The United Corporate States Of America

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Business for Social Responsibility, UN Global Compact, Keith Olbermann Special Comment, Corporate Responsibility, Lobbying, Trinity Church, Corporate America, Davos, Financial TImes, Corporate Power, Corporate Social Responsibility, Keith Olbermann, W. Edwards Deming, Corporate Greed, Citizens United, Business News
Steven G. Brant

We have been handed the basic tools for replacing the old values that make corporations "evil" with the new values that will make corporations "good". The Citizens United ruling need not be so bad.

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PetroChina, the UN and Blood Money

Susan Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darfur, Petrochina, Omar Al-Bashir, Human Rights, UN Global Compact, Sudan, Genocide in Sudan, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, Business News, Corporate Social Responsibility, China Darfur, Oil Companies, John Ruggie, Business News
Susan Morgan

As Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir boasted, "Just when some countries gave us sanctions, God gave us oil." It's expensive to wage genocide.

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