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Happy New Year! We at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative would like to start off the new year by sharing with you an update of our activities from the Fall 2006 semester. We also would like to say thank you for your interest and participation, both of which have contributed to a very successful first half of the academic year.
Core Programs News
Events
Publications
Over the past semester, the research of CSR Initiative faculty, fellows, and staff achieved significant results and attention.
- CSRI Faculty Chair John Ruggie is approaching the release of his final recommendations as UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights. Since the inception of his mandate, Prof. Ruggie has undertaken human rights consultations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, drafted an interim report, and prepared working papers that will support his final recommendations. Embassy Magazine, a Canadian newspaper on foreign policy, recently summarized developments in Prof. Ruggie's work. For a comprehensive account of his human rights activities, go to the Business & Human Rights Resource Center. Prof. Ruggie was recently interviewed on his work with the United Nations for the Kennedy School of Government's Insight Series.
- CSR Initiative director Jane Nelson co-organized seven leadership dialogues in support of the goals of the Clinton Global Initiative. These dialogues identified and promoted models of collective corporate action aimed at finding systemic solutions to selected global challenges such as responding to natural disasters, combatting youth extremism, strengthening public health systems, tackling malnutrition, improving global road safety, and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The results of these dialogues are being distributed through a series of policy briefings with our partners, the International Business Leaders Forum and The Conference Board. See the publications section below for two of these briefings.
- Jennifer Nash, CSRI Executive Director and Director of the Regulatory Policy Program, and Cary Coglianese, Senior Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, released Leveraging the Private Sector, the first sustained analysis of public and private sector initiatives designed to encourage firms and industries to use their own management expertise to improve their environmental performance. For more information on this book, click here.
- Dr. Simon Zadek, CSRI Senior Fellow and Chief Executive of AccountAbility, received the Academy of Management’s 2006 Social Issues in Management (SIM) Book Award for his book The Civil Corporation: The New Economy of Corporate Citizenship. For more information on this award and Dr. Zadek’s book, click here.
- Mark R. Kramer, CSRI Senior Fellow and Co-Founder/Managing Director of FSG Social Impact Advisors, and Prof. Michael E. Porter, Harvard Business School and Co-Founder/Senior Advisor of FSG Social Impact Advisors, were named winners of the McKinsey Award for the Best Harvard Business Review Article in 2006 for their article "Strategy & Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility." See our events below for information on our Fall 2006 event with Mr. Kramer and links to this paper.
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Fall 2006 was a busy time for the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. We sponsored and co-sponsored events that included over 15 speakers. Agendas, PowerPoint presentations, and research papers are now available for many of these gatherings including:
- Mark Kramer on The Strategic Integration of Corporate Social Responsibility
- Frances Moore Lappé and Barbara Fiorito on Consumer Democracy: When Voting is Not Enough
- Bryan Dumont on the APCO Insight Global Diplomacy Study
- Sandra Waddock on Building the Institutional Infrastructure for Corporate Responsibility
- Herman B. “Dutch” Leonard on Corporate Responsibility and the Seven Deadly Sins
This event was profiled in the December 18, 2006 issue of the Harvard Gazette.
For a list of all our Fall 2006 events and the presentations, please visit our website.
Upcoming events we are planning for Spring 2007 include:
Business & Government Academic Speaker Series
- March 15: Daniel Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University, will speak about his book "Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage"
- March 22: Richard Locke, Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science at MIT Sloan and CSRI Visiting Scholar, will speak on "Pedagogical vs Policing Approaches to Monitoring: What Really
Improves Labor Conditions?"
- April 5: Alnoor Ebrahim, Visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, will speak on "Creating Accountability: What do Business, Government, and Nonprofits have in Common?"
CSRI Visiting Practitioners Series
- February 20: Mandy Cormack on Business & Society (see related publication below)
- February 27: Graham Sinclair from Net Impac tBoston will speak on "Analysis of Investing in CSR from Wall Street to Main Street"
- March 20: Liz Fleming from Shell Exploration and Production will speak about Shell's role in disaster relief and the New Orleans experience
Please be on the lookout for updates to our Spring 2007 events calendar.
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Since September, the CSR Initiative completed three reports and five working papers. All of our publications are available to download on our website.
Reports
Working Papers
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