by Carol Sanford | Jan 12, 2011 | Business Development
John Broder’s story in yesterday’s New York Times, “Blunders Abounded Before Gulf Spill”, reports on the analysis seeking where to lay the blame for the spill. And it is clear the failure is systemic. The Lead-in: “The Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill in the...
by Carol Sanford | Jan 8, 2011 | Impact Investing
Gregory Zuckerman, Wall Street Journal special reporter, and author of The Greatest Trade Ever, just tweeted: “Spoke re my book at Peking University, great questions-Everyone’s a capitalist today in the East, even as capitalism is disparaged in West” @GZuckerman...
by Carol Sanford | Jan 7, 2011 | Impact Investing
The New York Times reports that, “Micro lending is losing its halo in many countries”. It was the darling of the economic development world and its greatest advocate won a Nobel Prize. The idea is excellent and is still working in many places. But there are two...
by Carol Sanford | Dec 13, 2010 | Business Development
The Guardian Sustainable Business section offered an article by Sandra Macleod, CEO and founder of Echo Research this weekend (Dec. 10, 2010) on the shifts in CSR as perceived by executives in global companies. The synthesis is that, “Only companies that put corporate...
by Carol Sanford | Dec 3, 2010 | Business Development
I did a review of CSR for HR: A Necessary Partnership for Advancing Responsible Business Practices, by Elaine Cohen. I asked her to answer some questions about her book. Here is her reply. 1. Why HR? It seems they have so much to do anyway with the people side. To add...