Corporate Citizenship

“OK folks let’s hear it for Tesco!
Tesco – the inventor of clone town Britain! (Boo! Boo!)
Tesco- who want to open their 14th (!) store in Cambridge (How greedy can you get? Boo!)
Tesco- who…
… who? Who is that man over there who is cheering when I say Tesco? Outrageous!”
“Err well actually he’s from India. In fact, [...]

At this time of year you can be sure of several things: shoddy Christmas number 1’s being pumped out of each building on the high street; a drying up bank balance as present shopping takes over; forgetting what things look like in natural light. 
In this business we are starting to come to terms with another. [...]

Well greener than the US.
Bill Gates has been calling for the US government to invest more in clean energy technology to ‘ensure the US is not left behind in the search for alternative energy.’
This comes a day after South Korea announces a £20 billion green energy plan. The aim is to achieve a 10% share [...]

Stonewall recently ran some ads with the strap-line: “Some people are gay. Get over it!” I am going to pay for some ads that say “Some governments are broke. Get over it!”
Ernst & Young are the latest offender. Their ‘shock’ exclusive story is that : “A worsening of the euro zone debt crisis could increase [...]

Karin Laljani to judge the Guardian Sustainable Business Awards
Collaborating to drive innovation in corporate sustainability
The judging panel for the 2012 Guardian Sustainable Business Awards was announced today.
Guardian Sustainable Business approached Karin Laljani to join a panel of industry leaders, renowned in the communications, environmental and sustainability fields.
The awards, now in their second year, highlight leadership [...]

An opportunity has arose for a intern to join our New York office.
Position Summary
The successful candidate will assist in delivering client projects, business development activities, and marketing Corporate Citizenship.  Key responsibilities include:

Conduct web-based research on corporate responsibility topics and analyze research to identify key findings.
Develop [...]

Recent press coverage of Corporate Governance has been like South Pacific. The show-stopping  number is There is nothing like a dame.
The FT tells us that the share of women on FTSE boards rose from 14.6% in December 2010 to 14.6% in October.
Good.
A+ for direction of travel. C- for attainment.
It is asserted that more women on [...]

Time was when British industry only got into the news because of strike action.  That’s now decades in the past.  Now one can barely switch on to the Today programme without hearing some captain of industry telling us that the there is no fat-cat pay problem or that the St Paul’s protestors are just a [...]

We know that nothing that takes more than 120 characters to say is worth sharing.  Wrong!
KPMG’s conclusion on Assurance (http://www.kpmg.com/Global/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/corporate-responsibility/Documents/2011-survey.pdf) is spot on – even though they take 678 characters to say it.  (mve in2 the rl wld pls!).  Here it is:
 Making the most of assurance
A growing number of companies look to external assurance providers [...]

Thoughtful coverage of corporate responsibility reporting is rare. KPMG are to be congratulated for the thoughtful analysis included in the KPMG International Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting 2011
The top prize goes to Spain. KPMG says Spain is top for quality of communication and outstripped only by the tiny Indian reporting effort on process maturity.
That [...]