Corporate Social Responsibility Educational Podcasts
As corporate social responsibility takes hold, big business is increasingly becoming part of the solution rather than the cause of the problem. From cleaning up their own act to taking proactive steps to help others, companies are stepping up to do more than just make money. In these Social Innovation Conversations educational podcasts, learn what businesses are doing to improve our world by investing in local communities, improving labor practices, greening supply chains, and generally giving back. Get inspired about how you can turn your company into a force for corporate social responsibility in big and small ways.
Why are researchers in the United States accepting money from the government of China, in exchange for improving their surveillance ability? This is one of many uncomfortable questions Evgeny Morozov submits for consideration. He reminds us that although China may be the elephant in the room among obviously repressive governments, the role played by Western policymakers, corporations, and institutions which trade with them, make excuses for them, and profit from business with them is a more immediate peril to us all.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author Jeremy Rifkin about European energy conservation and what there is to be learned from it from his new book, The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World.
Businesses are in the business of business. But they are beginning to be in the business of doing social good as well. As companies shift to incorporate environmental, social, and welfare-based themes into business plans and products, Aron Cramer points out a trend of decreasing poverty and improving the environment as corporations look to increase both profit and human development.
Imagine completing two rounds of interviews, beginning your job orientation then being offered a choice by your new employer: feel free to continue with training or take $3000 to quit. According to Tony Hsieh, this is one of many ways to keep a company's culture intact as it manages hypergrowth. He and Susan Lyne, Chair of the Gilt Groupe, share their strategies for maintaining customer-centered excellence as e-commerce proliferates.
Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with Pulitzer prize-winning author, Ed Humes, to talk about his new book, Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of WalMarts Green Revolution.
What does it mean for a company to fully engage in corporate social responsibility and become a global citizen? In this audio lecture at Stanford, former Hewlett-Packard VP Debra Dunn talks about the opportunities and challenges of implementing a robust Corporate Social Responsibility strategy and aligning with the demands of numerous stakeholders. Dunn draws on her own experience working for the technology giant.
Deborah Estrin talks about GIS tracing of individual activity, it's fascinating usefulness, and potential privacy drawbacks. She assesses how combining tools such as location trace and environmental data with a wellness focus can inform public policy and personal decision making. According to Estrin experience sampling can yield data points which help patients to adjust and cope with medications. On the other hand, these living records can be intimate traces almost impossible to erase.
Consumer mapping on the web and traditional back-office geographic information systems (GIS) are becoming less distinct. Both are more accessible, standards-based, and flexible. Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI, speaks about the creation of a publicly accessible GIS mapping system, ArcGIS.com, a web platform that works with maps from various authoritative sources and provides the public with useful tools to add and use their own crowdsourced, volunteered geographic information (VGI).
Good corporate citizenship starts with your own customers. That's the message of Tony Hsieh, CEO of the online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos.com. In this audio lecture, delivered to Stanford MBA students, Hsieh reveals the secrets behind the Zappos outstanding customer experience, and discusses how the company is helping businesses deliver better customer service using the retailer's culture-building techniques.
When a company like Wal-Mart decides to work with suppliers to reduce their emissions, a positive ripple is created throughout the global economy. However, is there room for smaller innovators when it comes to greening the supply chain? In this audio interview, part of the Future of Green series from Stanford's Center for Social Innovation, Professor Gary Gereffi and EDF's Andrew Hutson talk about opportunities for sustainable supply chains in the age of globalization.
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