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- At Aetna, a C.E.O.’s Management by Mantra
At Aetna, a C.E.O.’s Management by Mantra
David Gelles, NY Times, Feb 27, 2015
"In recent years, following a near-death experience, Mr. Bertolini set about overhauling his own health regimen, as well as reshaping the culture of Aetna with a series of eyebrow-raising moves. He has offered free yoga and meditation classes to Aetna employees; more than 13,000 workers have participated. He began selling the same classes to the businesses that contract with Aetna for their health insurance. And in January, after reading “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the treatise on inequality by the French economist Thomas Piketty, Mr. Bertolini gave his lowest-paid employees a 33 percent raise."
- Craig Smith - Corporate Social Responsibility: Not Whether But How
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: NOT WHETHER, BUT HOW?
N. Craig Smith, London Business School Centre for Marketing Working Paper, No. 03-701, April 2003
- Five Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, BP’s Most Vulnerable Victims Are Still Struggling
BP agreed to a $7.8 billion settlement, but still hasn’t paid out most Gulf Coast businesses.
Katy Reckdahl
April 15, 2015 | This article appeared in the May 4, 2015 edition of The Nation.
- Global Survey: Injection of ESG Builds Corporate Value
FTI Journal, January 2019
An FTI Consulting survey of 130 global institutional investors conducted between May and July 2018 provides insight into how influential ESG principles have become. An overwhelming majority of the investors — whose firms manage a sum exceeding US$8.4 trillion in assets — said they attribute extra corporate value to a company with a high ESG rating.
- IBM Health Corps
"IBM has launched a new global corporate citizenship program to help reduce pressing health disparities across the world. Modeled off of IBM Corporate Citizenship’s award winning programs Corporate Service Corps and Smarter Cities Challenge, and leveraging IBM’s leadership and vision for cognitive computing, IBM Health Corps brings IBM experts to work with health organizations to help address systemic health challenges."
- Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
"The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility is a coalition of faith and values-driven organizations who view the management of their investments as a powerful catalyst for social change. Our membership comprises nearly 300 organizations including faith-based institutions, socially responsible asset management companies, unions, pension funds and colleges and universities that collectively represent over $100 billion in invested capital".
- Joni Madison Mtern Diversity Scholarship honors former COO
Durham, NC May 17, 2016 — McKinney has established the Joni Madison Mtern Diversity Scholarship to help students from unrepresented minority groups learn from working at the agency as interns.... As chief operating officer from 2003 to 2016, Madison helped create an agency culture that champions diversity. She was a human rights advocate and leader both in the public and private sectors. As a volunteer for Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights agency, Madison served as a member of the board of directors from 2007 to 2014. This month, she became HRC’s chief operating officer and chief of staff.
- NPR - When Corporations Take The Lead On Social Change
When Corporations Take The Lead On Social Change
April 4, 2015 9:12 AM ET
Jim Burress, NPR Weekend Edition
"Back in 1964, social conservatives in Atlanta refused to support an integrated dinner honoring Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. But then Coca-Cola put its giant corporate foot down, and changed Atlanta's history."
- NY Times - One Company’s New Minimum Wage: $70,000 a Year
One Company’s New Minimum Wage: $70,000 a Year Patricia Cohen, NY Times, April 13, 2015 "The idea began percolating, said Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, after he read an article on happiness. It showed that, for people who earn less than about $70,000, extra money makes a big difference in their lives. "His idea bubbled into reality on Monday afternoon, when Mr. Price surprised his 120-person staff by announcing that he planned over the next three years to raise the salary of even the lowest-paid clerk, customer service representative and salesman to a minimum of $70,000." Plus video of the announcement.
- Showing CSR is good strategy
Proving that it pays to be green and socially responsible is the lifework of Olga Hawn, an associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, the Sustainability Distinguished Fellow and the faculty director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
- Starbuck's CEO Schultz defends company support for gay marriage
"Starbuck’s CEO Just Made A Shocking Announcement That Has Christians Standing Up For Their Faith"
Qpolitical, by Rachel (linked on 3/30/2015; undated)
- Tim Brown, President & CEO of Nestle Waters, on bottling California water