Monthly Archives: November 2011

What more does it take to get senior execs on board with CSR?

Another study finds that companies can do well by doing good! This recent working paper from Harvard Business School shows companies that take sustainability seriously – that integrate it into their business culture – perform better over the longer term. What I … Continue reading

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Can Mining Companies Do Sustainability?

By Jonathon Hanks, writing for Anglo American’s A Magazine. For many people the concept of mining companies being committed to sustainable development is a classic oxymoron. Not only is their business model entirely dependent on the extraction of a finite … Continue reading

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Why the message from Rio+20 matters more than ever

The participants in Rio+20 need to think  about the psychological and sociological dimensions of the public’s attitude  toward sustainability. George Bernard Shaw saw the world as divided into two sorts of people. Those who looked at it and asked “why?”, … Continue reading

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