In advance of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference , I recently gave a presentation at Copenhagen Business School on Business Schools, Society and Climate Change. Here is a short video overview of my presentation: [...]

Recently both Andrew and I appeared (on different nights) on Phillip Adams’s Australian radio programme ‘ Late Night Live .’ Andrew discussed the financial crisis and our book The Elephant Hunters (you can download the podcast here ), while I was part of a panel discussing corporate social responsibility (available here ).
We both think that CSR in theory is a good thing, but often it manifests itself as government absolving itself of responsibiliy and foisting it on the private sector. The sentiment behind the Caux Principles at the beginning of the CSR movement was “Let’s do something socially responsible as businesses before government intervenes and forces us to do something.” Businesses do need to show that they’re sufficiently capable of acting responsibly (and if they want to be successful with their CSR, they need to entwine it in their company’s [...]