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Sustainable Inspiration
I was quite excited when Greenleaf Publishing sent TBL a copy of Sustainable Value hot off the press for us to review. Written by Chris Laszlo and published earlier this year, its first few pages are filled with impressive enough praise from academics and business people alike, including a foreword by Patrick Cescau, Unilever’s Group […]
CSR and Low-Income Housing: A Plausible Framework
Currently, Pakistan has an overall housing backlog exceeding 6 million units with an annual addition of 300,000 units – based upon conservative estimates from the Population Census of 1998 and the National Housing Policy of 2001. Roughly 30-40 percent of the demand is addressed by mainstream developers who cater to the high-end market. The remaining […]
Etsko Schuitema: Intent – Care & Growth
At the core of the crises humanity is facing is the spectacular failure of controls and policies – be that in food management, financial sectors, international relations, governance systems, or even inter-personal relationships. In a world that is becoming fragmented and franchised, more controls are impossible to implement. Yet there is a need of collective […]
CSR for CSR
Businesses are increasingly expected to solve social problems with the efficiency technically inherent in business processes. This expectation, coupled with the downsides of a short-term, profit maximizing motive, gave birth to the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSR has caught the fancy of business leaders across the world. In order to live or (show) […]