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As we begin the 2006-2007 academic year, we are pleased to share with our sponsors a brief update on opportunities for engagement, staffing changes, and highlights from a busy summer.
Please contact us if you would like to give a talk at the Kennedy School about your corporate social responsibility activities. We would like to showcase your programs and expose students to the most dynamic private sector leaders in this field. Contact Jennifer Nash.
In addition, please let us know if you would like Kennedy School students to review your corporate sustainability reports and related policies, in draft or final form. The review process is led by students and provides corporate sponsors with detailed and candid feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of their important CSR documents. Usually students review written materials in advance and then discuss their reactions in a closed-door meeting with representatives of the sponsoring organization. To date, General Motors, Coca-Cola, and InBev have sought CSRI review of their corporate social responsibility publications. Contact Jennifer Nash.
Staff & Fellows Changes
External News
Research & Publications
External Outreach & Partnerships
Jennifer Nash, formerly senior research associate at the CSR Initiative, is now executive director. Jennifer will assume more responsibility for day-to-day operations in addition to pursuing research in governance and accountability.
Beth Jenkins, formerly a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined the CSR Initiative as Director of Policy Studies. Beth received her masters in public policy degree from the Kennedy School and founded the school’s student Corporate Responsibility Council.
Rick Locke and Sandra Waddock have joined the CSR Initiative as visiting scholars. Rick is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and Department of Political Science where his research focuses on economic development, comparative labor relations, and political economy. Sandra is a professor at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management where she studies corporate citizenship, responsibility management, multi-sector collaboration, and management education.
David Grayson has joined the CSR Initiative as a senior fellow. David is Chairman of the UK Small Business Consortium and Director of Business in the Community, UK.
In August the Academy of Management, Social Issues in Management Division, awarded Simon Zadek the 2006 Book Award for The Civil Corporation: The New Economy of Corporate Citizenship. Simon is a Senior Fellow at the CSR Initiative.
Earlier this month, Resources for the Future published Jennifer Nash’s book Leveraging the Private Sector, which she edited with Cary Coglianese.
The CSR Initiative co-sponsored 6 Clinton Global Initiative roundtables this past spring and summer. We will present reports from the roundtables at an event later this month.
The following list summarizes CSR Initiative publications and presentations since our Second Anniversary event in May. We welcome your thoughts and suggestions for the Initiative this year.
June
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United Nations System Private Sector Focal Points Meeting 2006:
Towards Impact, Scale and Local Ownership: New tools and
mechanisms for effective partnership management; 1-2 June 2006—(Paris, France) Jane Nelson, Facilitator
- International Council on Mining and Metals(ICMM)/Brookings Institution Resource Endowment initiative Discussion Panel;
Jane Nelson, Panelist
With Speakers Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (Anglo American, Global Compact Foundation), Wayne W. Murdy (Newmont Mining Corporation, ICMM), Paul Mitchell (ICMM); Moderated by Lael Brainard (Brookings Institution)
- Clinton Global Initiative Leadership Dialogue: Taking Joint Action on Malnutrition:
Business as a Partner; Jane Nelson, Panelist
- Extractive Industries Initiative Luncheon: Sharing Experience: Enhancing the Benefits to Communities from Extractive Industry Projects; Jane Nelson, Keynote Speaker
July
- Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2006: " The Internal License to Operate: Managerial Perceptions and Corporate Environmental Practice"
Jennifer Nash, Presenter
- 52nd Annual Rocky Mountain Law Institute:
The Operation of NGOs in a World of Corporate and Other Codes of Conduct
Jane Nelson, Speaker
August
- Brookings-Blum Roundtable: The Tangled Web: Breaking the Poverty-Insecurity Nexus
“Operating in Insecure Environments"
Jane Nelson, Speaker
- Academy of Management Meetings - Business as an Agent of
World Benefit: Management Knowledge Leading Positive Change;
Jane Nelson, Speaker
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