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by Miche on June 16, 2007
A couple days ago I told you about Big Pharma funding doctor education, and the bias it creates. If you didn't already, you should also know that studies are developed to prove a hypothesis that...
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by Miche on June 15, 2007
I like Google. Really, I do - but I'm slightly disappointed. Google has made my life so much more efficient. I use my Gmail not only to communicate, but with the way it is set up I don't feel...
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by Miche on June 14, 2007
Believe it or not, medicine causes illness. Avandia causes heart disease. Vioxx doubles the risk for heart attacks and strokes. Zyprexa causes diabetes. It makes you think - what will that blue pill...
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by Miche on June 03, 2007
A few weeks ago I reported on that Fleshman-Hillard survey, and if you will remember, it stated that the American public felt the government should do more to enforce CSR. Personally, I am opposed to...
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by Miche on May 30, 2007
There's a lot to watch out for when you're checking out a corporation. It's not just their green practices, budgeting, or volunteer work. Remember Enron? Tyson? MCI? Martha Stewart? Yeah,...
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by Miche on May 26, 2007
A teaspoon of sugar may help the medicine go down, but Mary Poppins will find herself in a load of trouble if the U.S. FDA gets their newest bill passed. They want to make it so that anything you...
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by Miche on May 25, 2007
I have already mentioned there's a problem with corporate transparency on the matter of organic food - and apparently there are zero regulations on natural personal care products. I hadn't...
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by Miche on May 21, 2007
You need to read this today, because if you have anything to say about it, today is your last chance. They only gave the public a 7-day review process, and this only crossed my desk about 10 hours...
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by Miche on May 18, 2007
Forget "Don't Ask" - the US government is adopting a policy of flat out "Don't Tell." Or at the very least the military is - but if the military can do this, how can we...
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by Miche on May 17, 2007
Isn't it amazing how doing one thing right can be so gosh derned beneficial to everyone? The new trendy thing for corporations to participate in is volunteer work. Of course corporations would...
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by Miche on May 13, 2007
Jim Talent and Arianna Huffington on the FH NCL Corporate Social Responsibility Panel. Photo courtesy of Fleishman-Hillard, rights reserved. A few days ago I was contacted by Rachelle Lacroix at...
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by Miche on May 11, 2007
It would appear that higher education is gradually losing sight of their social bottom line, seeking instead to increase their financial profits. Financial aid advisors at certain colleges and...
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by Miche on May 10, 2007
Do you like where you work? What you do? ...Why not? I've mentioned before at LoanShak that I stopped working in the mortgage industry because it didn't agree with my ethics. I hated my job -...
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by mstandaert on January 04, 2007
(Pic) A simple roundup of CSR news for you today ... *At Social Funds: CSR is good for business, and telling the good from the bad. *CSR Wire's overview of the top CSR news of 2006. *A journalism...
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by mstandaert on December 12, 2006
A story from my colleague Stephen Gardner at Euro-correspondent.com on CSR in Romania and Bulgaria, originally for Ethical Corporation magazine. For both Bulgaria and Romania, things will change. EU...
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by mstandaert on December 03, 2006
Two articles from the past weeks caught my eye here since they're basically the same article, although one calls CSR bunk and the other that CSR is immoral. While there's room to criticize CSR...
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by mstandaert on November 26, 2006
I was browsing through some of the CSR resources at Case Place and thought I'd point to some of interest as an open source CSR exercise ... unfortunately a lot of case studies in CSR, social...
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by mstandaert on November 26, 2006
Some 'off day' (is it ever an off day around here?) thoughts from Notes from Sweden ... Back when I was a kid in the early 60's I remember very well a debate in society over what was...
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by mstandaert on November 22, 2006
Some bark to the bite for CSR here, according to CSR Wire. Gap released its CSR report yesterday and also announced that it had sacked 62 factories for code violations. With all the Red promotion...
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by mstandaert on November 19, 2006
(Photo from Wonkette) I meant to post this about a month ago! Shows you how much I'm behind. This is the text of a talk Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, gave at Harvard in the middle of...
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by mstandaert on November 08, 2006
Once again, I can't figure out how to download and upload Mp3's directly to the posts, so I'll have to link to this instead. There's a nice, from what I've listened to,...
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by mstandaert on November 08, 2006
It has been a rough year or so for U.S. domestic automakers like GM as they restructure, but all is not always so gloomy. A couple days ago I got this press release stating GM has won an award from......
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by mstandaert on October 31, 2006
Today GlobaLab points out a project at One World Trust called the Global Accountability Index, which will launch in December. The GAI will look at 30 top organizations from public, private and...
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