Harvard Business Review on Corporate Responsibility (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

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Harvard Business Review on Corporate Responsibility (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)
by Harvard Business School Press, C. K. Prahalad, Michael E. Porter
from Harvard Business School Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Excellent collection of Harvard Business Review publications
  This book is excellent for the researcher who has been trying to find some older works on CSR, which originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review.
  There are some "classic" articles in this book, however I would not full-heartedly recommend this collection to the general public:
  As one would expect by a Harvard Business Review collection anyway, the topic CSR is not dealt with in a consistent manner, the publication rather adds a number of distinguished articles one after the other.

• Harvard CSR
  As an educational leadership professor, I am interested in learning about corporations and how they impact educational settings. This text was one of the most comprehensive collections of essays to offer a wide range of perspectives on the issues of corporate social responsibility. With its researchers and the commentary, this text provides a novice, like myself, with the background, application and insight as to how the business world perceives CSR within its own environment. For those of you who are new... more info

• 8 articles on Corporate Social Responsibility
  This collection of article opens interesting lines of reasoning and might just get fresh ideas in front of decision makers who can use business as a tool for good on the global scale. The eight articles cover a broad range of topics and vary in tone from sweeping philosophical musings to rigorous academic pieces. The first article is a very strong lead-off, I will try to summarize this piece in hopes of giving you a flavor for the whole collection:
  * Serving the world's poor, profitably - C.K. Prahalad... more info

• 8essays that see corporate responsibility as an opportunity
  Traditional corporate executives may shudder when they hear the term "corporate responsibility". In their view, the corporation's responsibility is to maximize shareholder value within the bounds of the law. That's a tall order as it is, so resistance to the thought of additional sources of responsibility and additional relevant "stakeholders" isn't surprising. The writers gathered in this collection of papers from HBR see corporate responsibility less as a burden and more as an opportunity. The opportunity... more info

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