Tag Archives: CSR Strategy

Why sector-based initiatives will take sustainability into the future

[Originally published in The Guardian Sustainable Business Blog.] CSR and sustainability departments of emerging market and mature market multinational companies face very similar and familiar challenges. Internally, these include difficulties convincing CEOs and CFOs of the business relevance of CSR. Externally, … Continue reading

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Transforming business from the inside

Very few significant New Zealand businesses need to be convinced that adopting a strategy that ensures they have a positive operating impact for consumers, employees and other stakeholders, as well as the environment, is good business. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) … Continue reading

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The ACCSR Conference on Responsible leadership – the summary

The ACCSR Conference on Responsible leadership – summarised on twitter. This year our 6th Annual Conference ‘The State of CSR’ explored the issue of leadership in an age of  responsibility. Our speakers inspired and challenged us with endless ideas and hints … Continue reading

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Responsible leadership: the foundation for corporate social responsibility

In the lead up to ACCSR’s Annual Conference, we spoke with Professor David Allen, management academic and strategy expert about the perils of responsible leadership and delivering value through CSR. Ongoing financial crises and institutional scandals have highlighted the role (and … Continue reading

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CSR wears a shiny new suit

Mark Kramer’s recent visit to Melbourne has once again stirred welcome discussion on the role of business in society. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have by now read, or at least heard of, Kramer’s article in … Continue reading

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Mammoths and future proofing

We are more creative, more productive, and feel more rewarded when we work against a clear immediate problem. HBR says. Why? Possibly because we haven’t changed that much in the last 50,000 years. In fact we have the same brains that we … Continue reading

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Gunns: Should we be happy or sad?

An international colleague and long term Australia-watcher recently wrote to me to ask if we should be happy or sad about the demise of Gunns, Australia’s largest listed forestry company. I said it’s more complicated than that. Gunns first came … Continue reading

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Why we need holistic approaches to sustainable innovation

In proposing the concept of sustainable development, the Brundtland Commission  argued that improvement of ecosystem health, without the alleviation of poverty, the redistribution of economic opportunity, community self-sufficiency, and human freedom, could only lead to incremental results. In the approximately … Continue reading

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The importance of CSR impacts: Measuring the intangible?

I joined ACCSR six months ago, and one of my first tasks was to manage the State of CSR survey – the roll out of the new innovation measures, making sure we could get as many people as possible to … Continue reading

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Why the private sector is holding back on sustainability

Next year’s UN conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro will be my third such event. Already I am torn between disempowering premonitions of a “Rio lite” outcome, which fails to match the substance of its namesake 20 years … Continue reading

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