The private and public sectors have been urged to benchmark their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities with international standards. Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) Managing Director ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies are creating new ways to show they care about their employees, customers, and cities. I have written about companies like AWS, Amazon, Cloudera, Dell ...

As businesses increasingly strive to live up to their stated values, considerable reputation risk lingers within their supply chains around substandard labor practices, environmental degradation, ...

There has been an influx of CSR collaborations among competitors—some initiated by governments and NGOs, and others established by industry participants themselves. In each case, generally, the goal ...

Companies are increasingly aware that human rights problems are bad for business. Human rights issues are having a decided impact on how companies do business. In a survey of the world’s 500 largest ...

The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once stated that a business' sole responsibility is "to use its resources ... to increase its profits." This mentality has persuaded many business ...

Before I arrived in the U.S. as a political refugee at the age of 28, I worked in many factories in China. As a factory worker, I experienced harsh conditions. For many of us, it was a daily reality ...