Tag: CSR
CSR Advantage: David, Goliath, or Tom, Dick & Harry?
April 13, 2010
The current small company CSR project I am working on brings many interesting points to light, but as my mind tosses around so many integral ideas, one overarching factor has caught my attention – size. Yes, size. How does a company’s size,…
Branding Corporate Social Responsibility efforts
March 31, 2010
As I flew back home on Delta airlines over the weekend the flight attendant announced that all cans and bottles would be recycled using Delta’s Sky High In-Flight Recycling program. When I got home I looked up the program and ended up spending 10…
Mitsubishi and Sustainable Sushi
March 28, 2010
Just a few days ago, a proposal to ban all international trade of bluefin tuna, put forth by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), was voted down 68 to 20 at a United Nations meeting in Doha, Quatar. In spite of the…
Socially Responsible Product Design
March 16, 2010
While our CSR course here focuses more on sustainability programs within companies, I am passionate about creating products that are fundamentally sustainable themselves. If customers see cool, visually appealing, highly functional products that are…
CSR for the Skeptical
March 09, 2010
This blog is for business managers or students, who see Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), also known as Corporate Citizenship as the amount of capital companies donate every year to get a good PR. CSR is much much more and believe it or not it…