IF YOU HAD A $1 MILLION TO GIVE AWAY, WHERE SHOULD IT GO?
Trying to choose your cause is not particularly well served by hunting for that supremely special, really deserving organization. In truth, there are thousands of them. Or, put the other way round, no totally perfect group exists. The most honorable, effective, dedicated, and ethical organizations also make some mistakes and suffer glitches. How could they […]
KICKING ASS AND GIRL-ING OUT
In the “We’ve Come a Long Way” department, Prudential has recently released its latest women and money research, a 10th anniversary edition. Results? It would seem, dear ones, that we the American women are simultaneously kicking ass and girl-ing out. Take a cruise of the findings from the “Financial Experience & Behaviors among Women, 2010−2011 […]
WHY THE PROFIT MOTIVE WILL PUSH MULTINATIONALS TO ENFORCE HIGHER SOCIAL AND ETHICAL STANDARDS
As we all know, growing profits at a company boils down to a simple equation. Boost sales while holding prices and cutting costs and the profit margin widens. For multinational companies, a preferred route to doing just that is to rely on volumes of scale. If you make and sell more products more cheaply and […]
WHY FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES WILL DO THE RIGHT THING
Several years ago, Socially Responsible Investing maven Peter D. Kinder, then president at KLD Research & Analytics (KLD) in Boston, and currently Strategic Advisor to ESG Analytics, wrote a white paper called “Values and Money.” His stated goal was to trace the history of SRI and to provide some real definitions, context and metrics about […]