Tag Archives: CSR

Employee since 2007

Posted on May 27, 2010 by

The next time you’re in CostCo, check out the employees’ badges.  Right under the employee’s name, the badge say “Employee since _______”.  Subtle, but powerful. From what I know about CostCo, this is the real deal – they care about … Continue reading →

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CSR 2×2 Redux Part II – What are we really learning?

Posted on February 6, 2009 by

(Part 2 of 2 on “Should foundation program officers be more like venture capitalists?” is coming soon) A press release on CSR just came over the transom today, and I read it as validation of the Corporate Responsibility 2×2 post … Continue reading →

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The Corporate Social Responsibility 2-by-2

Posted on January 28, 2009 by

Nathanial Whittmore, who writes a great blog at Change.org, posted yesterday about Brad Googins’ response to Barack Obama’s inauguration speech (Brad runs the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College).  Nathanial was very enthusiastic about Brad’s call for corporations to … Continue reading →

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Do you just do “more than nothing”?

Posted on September 24, 2008 by

I recently had the chance to look at the corporate responsibility / poverty alleviation project of a major multinational corporation, and it looked very familiar.  As far as I could tell, they took a set of things they already did, … Continue reading →

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