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December 14, 2006				Business & Government Seminar Series Corporate Responsibility and the Seven Deadly Sins Herman "Dutch" Leonard, George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management at the Kennedy School and Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School PRESENTATION & Harvard Gazette Article

December 4, 2006				Special Event Harvard CSR Initiative and APCO Worldwide Panel Discussion Global Business Diplomacy: New frontiers in corporate social responsibility? John G. Ruggie, Director, M-RCBG, Kennedy School of Government; and Special Representative to the UN Secretary-General on Business and Human Rights Ben Heineman, Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government Ambassador Elizabeth Jones, Executive Vice President, APCO Worldwide Bryan Dumont, Senior Vice President, APCO Insight Jane Nelson, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Kennedy School of Government Read the APCO Insight Global Diplomacy Study Results. Read Mr. Dumont's presentation on this study. For more information about the study, please go to the APCO Worldwide web site.

November 30, 2006				Business & Government Seminar Series Building the Institutional Infrastructure for Corporate Responsibility Sandra Waddock, Visiting Scholar, M-RCBG at the Kennedy School Over the past 30 years or so an amazing array of new organizations and institutions have emerged around the issue of creating greater corporate responsibility. This talk focuses descriptively on the emerging institutional infrastructure that has resulted in the evolution of initiatives like the Global Reporting Initiative, the social investment movement, and related efforts to create more corporate responsibility, accountability, and transparency. Positioned predominantly in the practical realm, the talk addresses the evolution of some of the major initiatives around corporate accountability, responsibility, and transparency (what Waddock has elsewhere termed the ART of corporate citizenship or corporate responsibility), the emergence of other types of institutions that both foster greater responsibility and criticize current corporate actions. CSRI Working Paper No. 32 and PRESENTATION

November 21, 2006				Visiting Practitioners Series Corporate Social Responsibility: A European Business View Gary Campkin, Head of International Group, Confederation of British Industry The European landscape for corporate social responsibility differs from what we know in the United States. These differences reflect historic relationships between business and government as well as public perceptions about the appropriate role of business in society.

November 9, 2006				Visiting Practitioners Series What does Corporate Responsibility mean for Small Businesses? David Grayson, Senior Fellow, M-RCBG at the Kennedy School of Government, and Chairman, Small Business Consortium and a Partner at Irwin Grayson Associates

November 8, 2006				Corporate Responsibility Council Event Consumer Democracy: When Voting is Not Enough Frances Moore Lappé (Author of Democracy’s Edge) TJ Whalen (Green Mountain Coffee Roasters) Barbara Fiorito (Fairtrade Labelling Organizations [FLO]) David Grayson (Business in the Community-UK), Moderator What happens after Election Day? Millions of Americans have found a new way to vote. Every day, shoppers cast their votes for socially and environmentally responsible products. Frances Moore Lappé, author of Democracy's Edge and Diet for a Small Planet, proposes a new role for citizens in catalyzing social change and influencing business behavior through their everyday purchases. Barbara Fiorito, Board Chair for Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International and former Oxfam America Board Chair, discusses the potential for a Fair Trade lifestyle and the impact for producers. VP of Marketing for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, TJ Whalen, shares the business case for CSR and his experience educating mainstream consumers about new purchasing choices. Is consumer citizenship the new frontier of democracy? Do consumers really care? Read Ms. Lappé's handout from this event. Read Ms. Fiorito's presentation from this event.

October 10, 2006				Visiting Practitioners Series The Strategic Integration of Corporate Social Responsibility Mark Kramer, Senior Fellow, CSRI at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Founder and Managing Director, FSG Social Impact Advisors Mark Kramer describes the elements of competitive context and the way social issues play a role, and discuss the implications both for companies wishing to engage in "strategic CSR" and for governments and NGOs wishing to support it. The content he will be presenting will be featured in a forthcoming article co-authored with Professor Michael E. Porter and titled "Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility;" this article appears in the December 2006 issue of Harvard Business Review. PRESENTATION

September 27, 2006				Corporate Responsibility Council Event The Triple Bottom Line Andrew W. Savitz, Author of The Triple Bottom Line discusses his book.

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