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Video: Leading Thinkers - corporate responsiblity
Talking money, not guilt
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Can integrity drive profits?
Monday, Jul. 18, 2011 11:07AM EDT
Our expert panel looks at just how important CSR is to consumers when it comes to purchasing criteria. Sure, it can raise awareness of a brand, and can enhance the attractiveness of a product - particularly if its a cause that resonates with Canadians - but does it really drive up sales?
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What ethics means in business
Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 10:36AM EDT
The Globe and Mail convened a panel of experts to discuss the why companies should act with integrity. The group consisted of Paul Klein, the founder of Impakt; James Temple, director or corporate responsibility and PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada Foundation; Don McCreesh of Imagine Canada; Andrew Wilcynski, director of cause marketing for Telus and Ben Packard, VP of global responsibility with Starbucks.
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CSR: Can the C stand for Canada?
Friday, Jul. 15, 2011 10:36AM EDT
Finally, our panel discusses the roles and responsibilities of corporations when it comes to solving social problems, and the difference between CSR programs in Canada and those in the rest of the world - in this country, for example, environmental issues are to the fore.
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Talking money, not guilt
Thursday, Jun. 30, 2011 2:39PM EDT
Customers are far more likely to change behaviour if it saves them money, says Jim Harris, citing the plastic bag tax in Toronto as the perfect example - achieving something 30 years of moral suasion couldn't.
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Going green when oil hits $225
Thursday, Jun. 30, 2011 2:19PM EDT
When the price of oil soars, the companies who don't change their energy practices soon may be left in the cold, warns Jim Harris
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Why the best impact you can make is none
Thursday, Jun. 30, 2011 1:19PM EDT
Ex-Green party leader Jim Harris calls himself an environmental conservative. He believes that going green is hugely profitable, because by eliminating carbon, you're cutting costs.
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What cancer can teach us about the environment
Monday, Jun. 27, 2011 11:47AM EDT
Professor Karl-Henrik Robert's experience as part of a large cancer care team inspired him to create The Natural Step, a group of environmental experts whose goal is the creation of a sustainable society.
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First class perks, on a sinking ship
Monday, Jun. 27, 2011 11:47AM EDT
Society is in danger of sliding further down a funnel of declining resources, according to Dr. Karl-Henrik Robert. We need to stop seeing sustainability as purely a cost, rather than an investment.
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How can our economy become sustainable?
Thursday, Jun. 23, 2011 1:07PM EDT
Prodessor Karl-Henrik Robert, Md, PhD, is one of Sweden's foremost cancer scientists and the founder of The Natural Step. He argues that, considering our planet's limited resources, there is no chance our economy will remain the way it is.
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What can individual organizations do to embrace sustainability?
Thursday, Jun. 23, 2011 1:04PM EDT
Professor Karl-Henrik Robert believes that before they tackle the question of environmental sustainability, corporations must first take the time to define it.
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How much to promote your good works
Monday, Jun. 20, 2011 9:00AM EDT
Ed Clark, president and CEO of TD Bank Group, talks about the fine line between too much and too little advertising of corporate charity programmes and finding the right way to communite with the community to let them know what the company is doing.
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Community involvement vs. political activism
Monday, Jun. 20, 2011 9:00AM EDT
Ed Clark, president and CEO of TD Bank Group, talks about the value-added service of advising the company's clients on environmental issues in order to direct them towards the right kind of democratic debate.
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Banking on social responsibility
Monday, Jun. 20, 2011 9:00AM EDT
Ed Clark, president and CEO of TD Bank Group, explains that in order to create a sustainable corporate social responsibility program, the company as a whole feels it must be an issue worth working towards.
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Europe can overcome currency 'stumble'
Friday, May. 25, 2012 4:45PM EDT
The former EU Commissioner for Trade tells the Globe's Sonia Verma that Europe has achieved too much over the past 60 years to throw it away because of a currency crisis. The economic union can weather the storm though to do so will involve some pain.
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European integration has failed to deliver
Friday, May. 25, 2012 4:45PM EDT
The Harvard professor tells The Globe's Sonia Verma that economically, Europe has never been able to properly integrate vastly divergent nations into anything remotely uniform
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Abandoning the Euro would cause colossal pain
Friday, May. 25, 2012 4:23PM EDT
The British Lord and former EU commissioner for trade tells The Globe's Sonia Verma that the European union was flawed in implementation but not in principle
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He predicted the Euro crisis, but he'd rather fix it than gloat
Friday, May. 25, 2012 4:08PM EDT
The Harvard professor tells the Globe's Sonia Verma that the conditions that dragged the world into the Great Depression in 1931 are upon us again, and it is imperative for people on both sides to get the Eurozone crisis fixed.
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Video: John Ralston Saul on the state of global press freedom
Friday, May. 04, 2012 3:26PM EDT
The noted academic and presidnet of PEN International discusses the current climate for Press Freedoms around the wold with the Globe's Marina Jimenez
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One-on-one with Howard Lutnick and Edie Lutnick
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 1:39PM EST
The Lutnicks on charities and the lessons to be taken from the 9/11 tragedy
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Healing a company deeply wounded by 9/11
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 12:46PM EST
Financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees to the terrorist attacks. CEO Howard Lutnick and his sister, Edie Lutnick, on a commitment to remembering them and rebuilding their organization
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The six killer apps of Western civilization
Friday, Dec. 09, 2011 12:29PM EST
Historian Niall Ferguson, author of Civilization: The West and The Rest, explains how six ideas – competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, the consumer society, and the work ethic – ensured Western predominance for so long.
