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Feb 18, 2019

The year of corporate acting—does business need a new approach to palm oil?

By Amanda Williams, Steve Kennedy and Gail Whiteman. 2018 went down as the ‘year of corporate caring’ about the palm oil controversy. A banned...

Dec 11, 2018

Current issues in Business and Human Rights: report from the 2018 Annual Forum in Geneva

By Karin Buhmann. ‘Building on what works’ was the key topic for the annual Forum on Business and Human Rights that took place in...

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Aug 1, 2018

Feeling the Pain

By Robin Porsfelt. While the recent US ’opioid crisis’ has been widely reported, a second, less recognized, crisis related to opioids has been taking...

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When Good CSR Intentions With Communities Go Bad

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Oct 30, 2017

By Rajiv Maher. Can companies get CSR efforts “right” by engaging in dialogue with communities, thus improve relations and their impacts? Reality shows that companies tend...

Another Inconvenient Truth: “Win-Win” Only Won’t Transform Our World

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Oct 16, 2017

By Katherine Richardson. A green growth project can contribute to sustainable development, but this is by no means a given Characterized by a singular...

CBS new Knowledge Partner of the OECD

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Aug 3, 2017

By Karin Buhmann. In early 2017 CBS accepted an invitation from the Organisation of Economic Collaboration and Development (OECD) to become an OECD Knowledge...

CSR and the role of business in Areas of Limited Statehood

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Jun 9, 2017

By Sameer Azizi. The global search for new markets has pushed corporations to operate in national settings in the Global South that differ tremendously...

Creativity: Africa’s new gold?

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May 30, 2017

By Ana Alacovska and Thilde Langevang. Cocoa, precious minerals and crude oil ceased to be Africa’s only natural resources. Creativity is ‘the oil of...

Business integrity, ideas and developments in the ASEAN way

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May 4, 2017

By Luisa Murphy. As a former employee of the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, I worked on corruption cases involving companies accused...