Volunteer for a cause”and employee goodwill
Companies covered GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) | Hero MotoCorp | ICICI Lombard | IndiGo | Microsoft | NetApp | PwC | SAP For CSR, there’s no dearth of causes or the kind of forms that it can take. The most popular (and hands-off) approach remains
The art of evasion: Corporate India and MeToo
MeToo in India is just about a year old. While plenty of brave survivors of rape, assault and sexual harassment have been speaking out against their perpetrators even before feminism became a term, the MeToo movement’s place in the annals of feminist history
Three years since Paris: India’s progress, missteps, and way ahead
The COP24 (Conference of the Parties) will take place in Katowice, Poland, on 3″18 December 2018. This is the United Nations climate-change conference that involves almost every country in the world. The COP is the main decision-making body of the United Nations Framework
The Maharashtra plastic ban – why it exists and how it can work
2018 is turning out to be a watershed year for plastic, or rather, the demonisation of plastic. From Starbucks’ announcement that it is phasing out plastic cups from its stores to the slew of pledges from multiple Indian companies to reduce plastic use,
Sexual harassment at workplaces in India: Separating myths from facts
In this second part of CB’s deep dive into sexual harassment at workplaces, we try to dispel some myths and look at some studies on how corporate India is dealing (or not) with this problem. CB had reached out to over 50 large
Sexual harassment at workplaces in India: Time’s not up yet
If 2017 will be remembered for anything, it won’t be GST, the cartoonish villain that is Trump, or the bluster of North Korea, it will be an innocuous little hashtag that blossomed into a full-fledged movement: #MeToo. While the far-reaching effects of this
How the world’s best does Green (and so should India)
Companies covered Cisco | Natura Cosmeticos | Neste Corporation | Societe Generale | Toyota Continuing with our curiosity about the Paris accord, team CB wanted to understand how some of the world’s most green and sustainable companies are responding to climate change.
The mystery that is social entrepreneurship
When this author was young(er), one of the many mistakes she made was to get an MBA degree. However, one of the few good decisions while getting that degree was to opt for the social entrepreneurship course in her second year. The teacher
CSR: Responsibility towards society or government?
Last month, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about including contribution from businesses to the chief minister’s relief fund (CMRF) as money spent on CSR activities. Currently the 2013 CSR Act only considers donations to the Prime
CSR of healthcare companies: Health(care) is wealth
Companies covered: Apollo Hospitals | Cipla | Dr Reddy’s Laboratories | Fortis | ICICI Lombard | Max India | Piramal Healthcare | Sun Pharma | Wockhardt Here, we take a look at the CSR strategies and activities embraced by some of the country’s