The article in Saturday's Globe and Mail about business schools introducing oaths of ethical conduct for MBA graduates is worth reading. (Here's a link to MBA oaths from Harvard, Telfer School of Managements, and Richard Ivey School of Business: Sampling of Oaths.)

In addition to some lively feedback (positive and negative) to my recent post about the The Bay's current Think Pink campaign, I also heard from a number of people in the last week about the $2.7. million g0lden parachute that the SickKids Foundation gave former president Michael O'Mahoney (as it ...

Almost a year ago Dennis Schaal, Editor of CRO Magazine (CRO being Corporate Responsibility Officer) interviewed me for an article he wrote called 10 Ways to Stay Responsible During an Economic Slowdown. I just re-read it and thought it was worth sharing the highlights:

There are two aspects of corporate responsibility that I refer to as the "final frontiers" in giving CSR real traction inside corporations. One is communication (both internal and external) and the other is accountability.

On the one hand, the world of business has indeed changed and corporations can no longer ignore the environmental impact of their operations or the social/community priorities of their employees and external stakeholders. On the other hand, in recently memory, there's never been so much emphasis on profits, earnings, and ...

I am still looking for responses to the question I asked three days ago. London-based CSR authority Fabian Pattberg wrote in to say that he believes that in the U.S. the combination of the downturn in the economy with the "Obama Wind of Change" is being viewed as a CSR opportunity. ...

Have the irresponsible actions of banks, mortgage lenders, and others in the financial sector pushed other corporations to be more responsible and community-minded? Has the corporate responsibility "bar" been raised to a level that wouldn't have happened without such extraordinary avarice from the some in the corporate sector? Beyond the dangerous ...

Can these words be anything other than mutually exclusive? I think so but luxury brands will need to dig deep into their history and values to come up with social attributes that will be seen as authentic in the minds of customers and employees. Especially today when corporations that suddenly ...

I just got a notice about what sounds like an interesting event called GoingGreen in San Francisco on Sept 15-17. According to the notice, this is where "cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth."

Should corporations trim their CSR budgets in an economic slowdown? Yesterday, I was asked to comment on this question by Dennis Schaal, Editor-In-Chief of CRO Magazine. Here's what I told Dennis: