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Entergy Celebrates Educators and Invests $2.2 Million in the Future of Students at the Fried Chicken Festival

3BL Media

“Entergy has long been committed to supporting education and we are thankful to our teachers for everything they do to invest in the future of our students,” said Patty Riddlebarger, Entergy vice president of corporate social responsibility.

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The Business Roundtable’s statement of purpose, one year on

GreenBiz

As I noted in a 2006 essay on the occasion of Friedman’s passing: We know better now. For example, we understand that ignoring environmental and social issues can be bad for business. Corporate Social Responsibility. Companies that pollute their local communities risk poisoning their customers. Leadership.

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How this IoT device from charity: water could advance water access for billions

Cisco CSR

Founded in 2006, nonprofit charity: water has shown an incredible commitment to ensure that more people have access to enough clean water. We started looking into academic patents in 2012, but what we found in our searches were basic proof of concepts with no potential to scale the technology.” Having helped over 14.7

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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

James Militzer

That’s why the William Davidson Institute is sponsoring the Energy Innovation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Global Case Writing Competition , which aims to increase the number of academic business cases available about this very important topic. One of its goals was to reduce emissions to 25% below 2006 levels by 2025.

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Should corporations be activists?

Corporate Knights

Her previous research on corporate social responsibility found that investors, though initially skeptical, ultimately saw value in corporate commitments to sustainability. I have always been intrigued by the gap between what companies say and what they actually do,” says Hawn. It is bigger than a business case.”.