In a cutthroat business environment, when the going is tough, demands are seeing a slump, and sales across product segments are sagging, it is a rarity to see the chief executive officer of a company talking about the significance of their social investments, implementing new strategies for corporate social responsibility. When Team CauseBecause met Kazutada…
The ‘Conversations around CSR’ continue with Urja Shah, president, Setco Foundation. Keeping in view the areas mandated as part of CSR, how does it impact your organisation’s focus and investment? Setco Foundation was set up in May 2007 to implement the corporate social responsibility initiatives of the Setco Group of companies. Both our current projects…
As part of the ‘Conversations around CSR’ series, we have here Indira Varadarajan, executive director, SNSF Foundation. Keeping in view the areas mandated as part of CSR, how does it impact your organisation’s focus and investment? One great thing about our funding corporate is that despite the highs and lows in their business, the annual…
The dynamics of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the country are changing – the unfocused charities are becoming ‘seed funds’ for practical social programmes, social organisations are conceptualising scalable development programmes, and then there is this new law… With the objective of gaining some sort of a glimpse into the thoughts of individuals who are…
Hong Kong is an international financial centre that has the world’s 6th highest GDP per capita, supporting 33 per cent of the foreign capital flows into China. In size, it is a mere 1,104 km ², which is less than 1/100th of 114,840 km ², the size of the to-be-formed Telengana state. Why am I…
Looking to the future, what is needed – and what is just starting to emerge – is a new approach to CSR, which I call Systemic CSR, or CSR 2.0. This is a purpose-driven, principle-based approach, in which business seeks to identify and tackle the root causes of our present unsustainability and irresponsibility, typically through…
Looking to the future, what is needed – and what is just starting to emerge – is a new approach to CSR, which I call Systemic CSR, or CSR 2.0. This is a purpose-driven, principle-based approach, in which business seeks to identify and tackle the root causes of our present unsustainability and irresponsibility, typically through…
Wow. What a seminal year for CSR and sustainable development it has been, for bad as well as good! The corporate scandals came thick and fast – ranging from News Corporation hacking the phones of victims of serious crime through to Barclays manipulating market interest rates at a time of taxpayer-funded bank bailouts. Political power…
SMEs face many barriers in adopting sustainable business practices but with a little creativity, collaboration and help from government, things could change Mexico’s small and medium sized enterprises account for more than 99% of the four million businesses in the country, generate 52% of GDP and provide 72% of employment. The government’s business accelerator programme…
The Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath has declared that giving ‘legal sanction’ to all religious structures in Delhi is ‘part of our community service’. Temples, mosques, gurdwaras and other places of worship built prior to 2007 and are on land that is unauthorized or partly unauthorized will be given legal sanction. The minister said…
