Stakeholders are individuals or companies with a vested interest in the outcome of their specific projects. Stakeholders have legal decision-making rights and may control project scheduling and ...

The corporate social and environmental responsibility movement, known more generally as corporate responsibility (CR), shows little sign of waning. Almost all large corporations now run some form of ...

In an effort to meet sustainability challenges companies are striving to live up to stakeholder expectations. It is now widely accepted that the way in which organisations, particularly mining and ...

Company stakeholders are not merely investors in a company -- stakeholders typically have voting power that can influence the social and financial impact of a company. With this voting power comes a ...

The youngest generational group of employees is often not treated as a priority in companies. Companies may doubt their ability to effectively meet the needs of young employees. Moreover, in the past, ...

Lazy corporate managements will love the Business Roundtable’s new statement on the purpose of a corporation. The new statement suggests, vaguely, that managements should consider all stakeholders: ...

(Editor’s note: This post is part of the HBR Debate “What Does Business Owe the World?“) David Chandler is co-author of Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Stakeholders in a Global Environment, ...

Whose interests should a company serve? How does corporate social responsibility (CSR) fit into that outlook? In this audio lecture, former Hewlett Packard VP Debra Dunn draws on her own background to ...

For several years now the World Economic Forum, host of the annual corporate celebrity bash known as the Davos Summit, has been a driving global force behind a move to overthrow market capitalism and ...