To begin with If you have to handpick anecdotes, stories, people, developments, incidents… to tell a story summing up what happened in this particular domain in the past decade, a domain that you have been actively involved in and one where you are professionally, personally and emotionally invested, what would you pick and how? It…
‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.’ ~ Leonardo Da Vinci …
Companies covered Reliance Industries | ONGC | Tata Consultancy Services | HDFC Bank | Infosys Companies seeking to squeeze the most brand value out of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) spends is fair enough. Yet, when they go on and on about the lives they ‘touched’, livelihoods ‘impacted’, ‘money’ donated, and suchlike, the…
‘Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.’ ~Issac Newton The recently released annual reports (including sustainability and CSR reports) of some of India’s largest public sector undertakings and large business entities have one thing in common. They all claim commitment to the same vision – to be carbon-neutral by 203o. …
hile the next few months are about guessing when will the new guidelines making CSR impact reports mandatory be passed, one must also wonder who will be measuring the ‘impact’ in the first place. While I write down a few principles that social and environmental impact evaluators must follow, here’s sharing with you an abstract…
With inputs from: Aditya Birla Group | Hero MotoCorp | Tata Power | Toyota | Volvo | Mahindra | Standard Chartered | Piramal Swasthya What if the company does not make profits? Will your social interventions be able to sustain themselves? In the last decade, Team CB has posed this question to almost…
n March, just before the lockdown started, I managed a visit to Imphal to evaluate if Mary Kom’s boxing academy was doing fine. I had to meet a few kids training under her and maybe predict if the academy had the potential to give India its next Olympian, if not another Mary Kom. Around the…
Over a week before the launch of Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM-CARES Fund), several corporate groups were mulling over ways in which to do their bit towards relief measures for the Covid-19 pandemic with their corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds. Although the same would have qualified as CSR spend…
Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all. ~ Paul Hawken For nearly a decade, Team CauseBecause has been propagating the ‘people’ and ‘planet’ aspects of sustainability amongst Indian corporate houses that have sort of mastered the profit aspect of business. This…
‘Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an “Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition†right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?’ ” Arianna Huffington ur edgy editor, sitting just a shout away, had…
