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What actions are companies taking in China to support the country's sustainable development imperatives?
Report
| 64 pages |
December 2011
David J. Vidal, Anke Schrader, David Hoffman, Kaying Lau
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report is based on the 2011 edition of The Conference Board Corporate Contributions Survey, which gathered data on charitable contributions made by U.S.-based companies in FY2010.
Report
| 64 pages |
November 2011
Matteo Tonello, Judit Torok
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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For CEOs in China, the challenge of sustainability was ranked higher than anywhere else in the world. But how will business meet this challenge?
Executive Action
| 11 pages |
November 2011
Anke Schrader
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report highlights issues to consider when approaching the task of overseeing a sustainability strategy.
Report
| 92 pages |
October 2011
Matteo Tonello
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report discusses the issues surrounding corporate philanthropy and provides practical recommendations to companies and boards for increasing the accountability and transparency of corporate giving programs.
Executive Action
| 9 pages |
August 2011
Baruch Lev, Christine Petrovits, Suresh Radhakrishnan
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report documents some of the potential bottom-line benefits to companies of being attentive to CSR: reducing cost and risk, gaining competitive advantage, developing and maintaining legitimacy and reputational capital, and achieving win-win outcomes.
Executive Action
| 7 pages |
June 2011
Archie Carroll, Kareem Shabana
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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The Directors College presented this webinar featuring Coro Strandberg, Principal, Strandberg Consulting and Associate, Canadian Business for Social Responsibility and Adine Mees, President and CEO, Canadian Business for Social Responsibility. This webinar will be of interest to those directors on boards who seek to understand their emerging fiduciary role with respect to providing oversight over their company’s non-financial performance. Increasingly social and environmental factors are becoming material to shareholder value and good governance practice is evolving to address the board’s mandate in this area.
Recorded Webinar
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May 2011
| The Conference Board of Canada
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To protect a company's integrity, there must be a strong ethics, compliance, and integrity program in place—one that is fully integrated into the organization’s mission, strategy, and operations.
Executive Action Report
| 11 pages |
April 2011
Conference Board Inc., New York
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report discusses a model for measuring the efficient and effective use of corporate resources allocated to CSR activities.
Executive Action Report
| 13 pages |
April 2011
Conference Board Inc., New York
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report discusses what to communicate (i.e., message content) and where (i.e., message channel), as well as the major factors (internal and external to the organization) that affect the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility communication.
Executive Action Report
| 11 pages |
March 2011
Conference Board Inc., New York
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report, which is based on the analysis of 163 articles from the most relevant empirical literature on the subject, offers a number of practical recommendations to business leaders embarking in CSR programs for their companies.
Executive Action Report
| 10 pages |
February 2011
Conference Board Inc., New York
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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Despite formal assignment of responsibilities to top business leaders, many companies still lack the structural framework to enable proper director oversight of corporate sustainability.
Executive Action Report
| 20 pages |
June 2010
Matteo Tonello
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This webcast discussed why GRI is gaining ground, especially among mainstream financial institutions and how GRI helps companies manage and measure their sustainability strategies.
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June 2010
Conference Board Inc., New York
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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Join the The 2010 Philanthropy Agenda's author, Carolyn Cavicchio, for a pre-release look at the report’s findings.
Recorded Webinar
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May 2010
Conference Board Inc., New York
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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The CSR Review presents the perspectives of leading thinkers and practitioners on the important issue of corporate social responsibility. Articles range from theory to practical applications and provide examples of CSR.
Review
| 32 pages |
April 2010
| The Conference Board of Canada
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The economic downturn took its toll in the U.S. corporate philanthropy arena but the negative impact seen in 2009 may have reached its peak.
Executive Action Report
| 6 pages |
March 2010
Carolyn Cavicchio
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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Sustainability–however defined or understood–is increasingly seen as the pivotal driver in a fundamental business and social transition likely to be of enduring global significance.
Executive Action Report
| 16 pages |
February 2010
David J. Vidal
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report examines the implications of sustainability on business corporations and on the body of law that governs them.
Executive Action Report
| 9 pages |
January 2010
Janet E. Kerr
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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Responses to this year's edition of The Conference Board Annual Survey on Corporate Contributions indicate that for companies for which we have multi-year data, U.S. charitable giving declined in FY 2008, while international giving increased.
Report
| 66 pages |
January 2010
Carolyn Cavicchio, Judit Torok
| The Conference Board, Inc.
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The Conference Board Inc. in New York will soon be releasing The 2009 Corporate Philanthropy Agenda: How the Economic Downturn is Affecting Corporate Giving. This report presents the statistics. And we want to give you the story behind the numbers. The 2009 Corporate Philanthropy Agenda Webinar—a 60-minute session that brings the research report to life. It goes beyond the data and delves into what organizations are doing to adjust their contributions programs in response to the economic downturn. Explore ways to engage employees in community involvement efforts during a time of downsizing, budget cuts, and higher-than-normal stress levels.
Recorded Webinar
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October 2009
Paul Forgues
| The Conference Board of Canada
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