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 is guaranteed for encouraging and helping millions of women tell their stories…
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 Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to combat climate change and global warming….
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, in time for the World Environment Day’s Beat Plastic Pollution theme, the…
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 companies across sectors to understand how they currently deal with such cases,…
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 movement have been felt by possibly every woman and man with access…
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. What kind of measures have been taken? Are they drastically cutting down…
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 was a fairly well-known personality in Indian academic circles and came into…
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 Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) as CSR spend. This new request was…
Companies covered: Apollo Hospitals | Cipla | Dr Reddy’s Laboratories | Fortis | ICICI Lombard | Max India | Piramal Healthcare | Sun Pharma | Wockhardt ere, we take a look at the CSR strategies and activities embraced by some of the country’s top healthcare companies and assess their dedication, or lack of it, to…
With inputs from: Yes Bank | Hero MotoCorp | HCL | Godrej | Toyota | JK Tyre ith CSR rapidly gaining social and economic currency, so much so that it was made mandatory by the government (through the CSR Act of 2013), companies have scrambled to get their programmes in order. But with great (social)…
