NZ Property Investor

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FIRE is an acronym for Financial Independence, Retire Early. The basic premise is that FIRE is attained by aggressive saving – for example, if you’re saving 50% of your annual income it will result in a year of living expenses for retirement. Some de

NZ Marketing

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I attended design school with the late Brent Chambers, a great guy and the talented owner of Flux Animation until his premature death late last year. Back then, he was constantly sketching people and thoughts as they came to him. One memorable exampl

NZBusiness and Management

2 min. di lettura

A GOOD definition of virtue signalling is from the Urban Dictionary: “To take a conspicuous, but essentially useless action, ostensibly to support a good cause but actually to show off how much more moral you are than everybody else.” CSR (Corporate

NPR

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As Corporate America seeks to redefine its mission as a force for social good, new studies in economics are showing that there are self-serving reasons why they'd want to do that.

strategy and business

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is complicated. The public frequently dismisses it as “greenwashing.” A company’s reputation and bottom line take a hit when goals on environmental and other social efforts aren’t met. Conversely, when a company

Newsweek

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IT WAS QUITE A YEAR IN THE WORLD OF corporate activism. In 2020, businesses and their leaders stood up like never before. CEOs and their boards halted campaign contributions to politicians who spread lies about a stolen presidential election, contrib

Kiplinger

1 min. di lettura

Industrials stocks have been slammed so far in 2020, and that has Wall Street's analysts pounding the table for select names in the beaten-down sector. There's little wonder why. The sweeping coronavirus pandemic and related lockdowns have derailed e

WellBeing

9 min. di lettura

Corporate. Social. Responsibility. Three words that, each on their own, are perfectly intelligible but, until recently, when placed together as a phrase became like something from a Lewis Carroll poem: nonsense. “Corporate social responsibility” as a

Business Today

1 min. di lettura

A total of 113 companies out of 130 (87 per cent) which responded to a Nielsen survey have supported India’s fight against Covid Of these 113, 84 have made cash contributions totalling ₹7,537 crore, which can be classified as CSR spend; of this, 57 p

India Today

2 min. di lettura

The present government got rid of two excellent economists—Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian. It has presided over the worst economic downturn in a quarter century. Its ministers keep saying the crisis will be over soon, that good times are comin

Business Today

1 min. di lettura

State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF): Primary source of funding for states in case of a disaster ₹28,983 crore Combined share (Centre and states) allocated for 2020/21 National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF): Supplements SDRFs during disasters of sever

Working Mother

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THE DILEMMA An accommodating boss and three work-from-home days a week might sound like an ideal combination. But new mom Amanda Riego, a director of academic operations at a New York City university, feels she’s achieved all she can in this position

Farmer's Weekly

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Striking a balance between economic realities and political issues was the biggest difficulty facing South Africa’s grain producers at present, according to Derek Mathews, newly elected Grain SA chairperson. Speaking to Farmer’s Weekly, he said dwind

Hong Kong Tatler

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Pat Dwyer has always wanted to make an impact. She began her career working with NGOs before becoming Ayala Land’s first manager of corporate social responsibility (CSR). She went on to become director of CSR and sustainability at Shangri-La Hotels a

Business Today

4 min. di lettura

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in India has evolved since 1965 when Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, at an event inauguration in New Delhi, urged the corporate fraternity to fulfil its obligations towards customers, workers, shareholders an

NZBusiness and Management

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IT’S NOT unusual for corporate giants to make sweeping statements and grand promises to do better – for their communities and for the world. Often, these commitments to “change for good” come in the aftermath of financial scandal like 2007-08 Global

HOME MAGAZINE LEBANON

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Alexis Nasard will soon celebrate his second year at the helm of Bata, the top-selling footwear and accessory manufacturer and retailer in the world. In his illustrious business career, he also played leading roles in two other world-class organizati

The Christian Science Monitor

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Patience is often thought of in terms of social interactions. But the ability to bide one’s time also plays into national economics.

The European Business Review

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Raben Group has branches in 13 European countries, employs a total of 10,000 employees, and dispatches over 8,500 trucks on the road each day. However, it all started really inconspicuously, with a small Dutch family business. Today, the values chara

Newsweek Europe

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IT’S HARD TO TAKE CORPORATE KINDNESS at face value. Chrysler’s Drive Forward ad campaign is about how we’re in this pandemic thing together. And it wants to help. By selling you a car. Amazon’s new commercial is about how you can order without feelin

The European Business Review

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As the market for eco-friendly and sustainable consumer goods grows and marketing campaigns emblazoned with environmentally conscious messages begin to reign mainstream advertising, what once appealed to customers may have aged into a model of the pa

Marketing

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Straight after finishing university, Terri Martin was lucky enough to find exactly what suited her from the very beginning of her career. It was actually a fluke that led her into the marketing industry, “I desperately wanted to work in the music ind

Fast Ford

1 min. di lettura

Spares cars can cost less, but a repairable Cabrio should start at around £1000, with (just) roadworthy examples for double that price, and usable cars for around £3000. Value decent bodywork higher than spec or mechanical components. Tidy cars start

HOME MAGAZINE LEBANON

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Corporate volunteering has existed for a long time in Lebanon. Virtually every non-governmental organization in the country is governed by a volunteer board of directors. And many of those board members are corporate executives, recruited for the pos

AdNews

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The heritage-listed Bushells Building in The Rocks, at the northern end of the Sydney CBD, brings the 10 Havas agencies together across five levels to create the Havas Village; a workplace where teams can work side by side, leveraging knowledge and t

HOME MAGAZINE LEBANON

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The Three Pillars in Alfa’s Sustainability & Community Engagement Strategy Alfa’s sustainability strategy over the past years reflects a continuous determination to fully integrate sustainability in all aspects of the business by taking into consider

Entrepreneur

2 min. di lettura

I'm convinced that more people would achieve financial success if they managed their home economics as if they were running a small business. As a business owner, you do snap cost/benefit analysis on nearly every decision you make, but for some reaso

The Christian Science Monitor

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Deutsche Welle / Bonn, GermanyEurope is using Syria as a Guantanamo for Islamic State fighters “The message came in typical Donald Trump manner: lacking in style...,” writes Matthias von Hein. “But, like it or not, there is some validity to the Unite

Business Today

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A 90 minute drive from Delhi lies Birondi Chakrasenpur village in Dadri block of Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddha Nagar district. The government run secondary school in the village is as plush as any private institution its well maintained classrooms

India Today

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Arun Nagpal's tryst with rural India started as a curious youngster accompanying his father, a Maharashtra government official, into the state's villages. That is where he went back in 2013, after spending three decades in the corporate world with fi