by Carol Sanford | Sep 11, 2010 | Business Development
Book Review: Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie The push to save the wilderness, wildlife and rivers, whether on the North American Continent or in the Amazon, or in Burma, seems such a worthy...
by Carol Sanford | Aug 16, 2010 | Business Development
As I read three articles in close succession, I found a tough pull between three really important concerns. The Financial Times on August 11,( Alan Beattie in Washington and Alan Rappeport in New York) reported that the trade deficit has risen to its highest level in...
by Carol Sanford | Jul 30, 2010 | Business Development
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper when they create widespread empathy by Dev Patnaik with Peter Mortensen. Twitter.com/devpatnaik This week, we have been looking at companies who are “taking more care” in communities that they affect, either as suppliers to them,...
by Carol Sanford | Jul 28, 2010 | Business Development
For a company to go Beyond Corporate Responsibility as currently conceived, it takes a human and economic interest in the vitality and viabilities of the communities from which they source materials and affect labor. The key to such human interest is the connecting of...
by Carol Sanford | Jul 26, 2010 | Business Development
Co-creators are any player in any part of the value-adding chain contribute to creating of products and services. To avoid conflicting minerals and other such problems, responsibility must go beyond the usually supply chain certification. This week’s blog focus is...