Tag: corporate social responsibility
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Just good business
The Economist: Just good business Corporate social responsibility, once a do-gooding sideshow, is now seen as mainstream. But as yet too few companies are doing it well, says Daniel Franklin. ………. Since there is so much CSR about, you might think big companies would by now be getting rather good at it. A few are,…
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Taking Internet Finance to the Next Level, Part 2: A Case Study
E-Commerce Times: Taking Internet Finance to the Next Level, Part 2: A Case Study Peer-to-peer consumer lending sites are shaking up the world of Internet finance. Be it the Internet or broadband wide-area networks, growing capabilities and increasing standardization are changing the way finance organizations do business, as Part 1 of this series discusses. The…
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Taking Internet Finance to the Next Level, Part 1
E-Commerce Times: Taking Internet Finance to the Next Level, Part 1 Internet banking and stock trading was all the rage during the late 1990s. Now, two emerging areas of e-finance — peer-to-peer lending and microfinance — are disrupting the status quo even further and moving their markets into a new stage of development. Facilitators of…
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Stop the World (and Avoid Reality)
New York Times: Stop the World (and Avoid Reality) by Alan Blinder Many Americans are justifiably distressed about rising income inequality, but foreign competition gets far too much of the blame. In fact, the best and most comprehensive studies of the inequality question assign international trade only a bit part in the drama. The main…
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Speaking in Tongues
Speaking in Tongues is an article about corporate social responsibility in TCS Daily. It highlights the disconnect between various camps who talk about corporate responsibility. Professor Elaine Sternberg of Tulane University made a solid case against CSR. She argued that, by giving a hazily defined class of "stakeholders" a say over corporate decisions, "CSR would…