Published on Nov 6, 2015

A plenary address by Denise Morrison President and CEOof Campbell Soup Company. BSR Conference 2015, San Francisco, CA.

Published on Oct 16, 2015

BSR Conference 2014: Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation talks about the "burning patience" and his personal narrative and path to the Ford Foundation.  Published on Nov 11, 2014

Conference Programme highlights

Speakers at the Global Ethics Forum 2014 Conference at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) in Bangalore/India were influential high profile leaders from business, government, academia, civil society, and other key stakeholder groups. Speakers included:

• Walter Fust, International Chair Global Ethics Forum, President, Globethics.net and Former Ambassador, Switzerland;
• S.D. Shibulal, International Chair Global Ethics Forum and CEO and Co-founder, Infosys, India;
• Mervyn King, International Chair Global Ethics Forum and Chairman, International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), UK/South Africa;
• Le Ping, Deputy Director, Research Institute of Globalization and China's Modernization, UIBE. China;
• Arnold Smit, BEN Africa, Driector of the Centre for Buinsess in Society, University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa;
• Klaus Leisinger, Chairman Emeritus, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, Switzerland;
• Yahya Wijaya, Director, Center for Business Ethics, Indonesia;
• Prof. HH Sri Sri Ravi, Shankar, Art of Living, India;
• Alexander Ageev, Director General, Ethics Institute of Economics, Russia;
• Kumud Srinivasan, President, Intel India; and many others.

Interview with Carmen Perez, Senior Research Analyst, Global Valuation at the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) at the 2013 VolunteerMatch Client Summit in New York City, May 2013. Carmen talks about the role of volunteering in CECP's partnerships with businesses around the world on the most important societal issues. She discusses the growth of volunteering as a priority for large corporations globally, and how it's becoming a strategic focus on both social and business levels.

Aaron Hurst, Taproot Foundation - Imperative and CECP: The CEO Force for Good are teaming up with a small group of leading employers on a new initiative to redefine corporate service and volunteering through the science of purpose.

Aaron Hurst, Imperative's CEO, founded the Taproot Foundation and led the skills-based volunteering and pro-bono revolution. He then catalyzed Billion + Change and discovered the Service Enterprise. CECP, since its founding by Paul Newman, John Whitehead and others, brings together CEOs of the world’s largest corporations -- and their trusted delegates -- to advance new perspectives and pioneer more effective collaborations and innovations as they work to create a better world through business.

Democracy Now for today, May 20th reports on the hundreds of farmworkers and their supporters who are in New York City ahead of Wendy's shareholder meeting to ask for improved working conditions for those who pick its tomatoes in the Fair Food campaign organized by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. CIW farmworker and organizer, Gerardo Reyes-Chavez talks about the campaign.  So far McDonald's, Subway, Burger King and Taco Bell have all joined the White House-recognized Social Responsibility Program, agreeing to pay an extra penny per pound of tomatoes to raise wages and only buy from fields where workers' rights are respected.

Business and Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility

Part One of the second panel of the Business in the Community Ireland Summit on Corporate Responsibility: Transforming to a Sustainable Business was held on Thursday 18th November 2010.

The panel includes James Quincey, The Coca Cola Company; Sir Stuart Rose, Chairman, Marks & Spencer; Prof Roger Steare, Cass Business School; Richard Jackson, Olympic Delivery Authority; and Gerard O'Neill, Amarach

Published on Mar 27, 2013

Renee Payton, Vice President of Business Development North America, for Tradegood caught up with 3BL Media at the Ethical Sourcing Forum hosted by Intertek on March 7th and 8th, 2013.  Identifying manufacturers with verified factories.