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"Here is the story of Corporate Social Responsibility--what it means, where it came from, where it is going, what it requires of business. Told in an eyewitness, I-was-there style by a pioneer of the study of CSR in the nation's business schools, it takes the reader through a half century of corporate scandals and fierce struggles over corporate ethics--from Ralph Nader's 1960s Campaign GM to today's white collar crimes at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and...

"Capitalism took the blame for Enron. Yet Enron was anything but a free-market enterprise, and company architect Ken Lay was hardly a principled capitalist. On the contrary, Enron was a politically dependent company and, in the end, a grotesque outcome of America's modern mixed economy. That is the central finding of Robert L. Bradley's Capitalism at Work: The blame for Enron rests squarely with "political capitalism"--A system in which business firms...

"In Corpocracy, longtime corporate lawyer, venture capitalist, and shareholder activist Robert Monks reveals how corporations seized control, how they abuse their power, and what we can - and must - do to rein them in. In this clear and careful analysis, Monks outlines a plan for reconciling the competing interests of corporations and society through thoughtful shareholder activism that protects the interests of corporations and everyone else. Shareholder...

On this episode of Ethical Markets Hazel Henderson and Marcello Palazzi, president of the Progressio Foundation and founder of B-Lab Europe, discuss benefit corporations. Topics include: shareholder value, b corporations, health care, cooperatives, impact investing, and environmental concerns.

We are fed up with the greed of Goldman Sachs, sickened by BP's pollution, tired of tainted food, tightfisted employers, and phony "corporate social responsibility." In this book the author, a noted economist and human capital expert, together with a multidisciplinary team, show that we have entered a new era in which good corporate behavior is no longer optional, it is the new imperative for success, and they have the data to prove it. Their Good...

Energy, the master resource, is the world's largest industry and the bedrock of modern life. Without carbon-based energy, in particular, production and consumption as we know it would not exist. During the last 150 years, the United States has been at the forefront of energy development. This book chronicles important swaths of history by focusing on the great entrepreneurs of electricity and natural gas: their lives and labors, their faults and failures,...

"In Profits with Principles, Ira A. Jackson and Jane Nelson show the quantifiable and enduring business advantage or "doing the right thing." The sixty companies profiled in Profits with Principles - including Starbucks, Citigroup, Alcoa, General Motors, General Electric, DuPont, and Dell - come from different industries and have implemented different strategies to build trust and gain a competitive advantage. What they share, however, are basic operating...