Search Results

Showing 41 - 50 of 75 results for "corporate social responsibility"

Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... launching pad for business innovation. Leeora Black, managing director, Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility To start with the prosaic, this year, listed companies will have new guidelines to consider when reporting environmental, social ...

RIAA panel discusses tackling ESG duties, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... (RIAA). Sarah Barker, special counsel at Minter Ellison Lawyers and a corporate governance and corporate social responsibility advisor explained that superannuation fund trustees must consider ESG impacts as part of their fiduciary obligations to exercise ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... an ad hoc policy, but grounded in the bank's wider sustainability policy, said Corin Millais, corporate social responsibility strategist at Teachers Mutual Bank. "We're continuing to strive to be an ethical and sustainable business, and to lead by example ...

Governance Institute of Australia questions shareholder primacy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Winemakers Federation of Australia, and Dr Leeora Black, managing director, Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR). "Part of the discussion yesterday was, are we in biz to serve society or to exploit it," said Judith Fox, national ...

Northern Trust names new global head of ESG investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... Trust Asset Management. "Expertise in ESG investing is integral to Northern Trust's comprehensive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) platform, and the appointment of Mamadou-Abou Sarr to this new role underscores our commitment to these principles ...

ACCSR: Australian CSR integration is too little, too slow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
Progress in integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Australia has been too little and too slow, according to the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ACCSR). Leeora Black, managing director, Australian Centre for Corporate ...

Sustainability reporting a source of key business value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... academic body of research has demonstrated the overall links between a strong demonstration of corporate social responsibility and positive generation of shareholder value, it is still very much necessary to make those links explicit to individual CEOs ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... programs, according to expert practitioners. Leeora Black, managing director, Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility These themes are interrelated and draw in other issues, including policy uncertainty around how carbon will be priced ...

Looking for social, economic return by creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... scalable way to answer social challenges, after a corporate meeting in Japan in 2012 on the question corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how Hitachi could use its products and services to "address the needs and challenges of society," Cobourn said. ...

bankmecu: integrated reporting develops integrated thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... but for us, the value is really about articulating the business case so that others can see that corporate social responsibility isn't a nice thing to have, it's not about a charity or giving money away, it's actually about doing good in the communities ...