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Unlocking Corporate Social Responsibility: 10 Impactful Ways to Give Back as a Business Owner

Strategy Driven

Adopt Ethical Supply Chain Practices Building an ethical supply chain system is another effective way to become a socially responsible company. Every organization has a supply chain that affects multiple stakeholders. Work with the NGO to reform the affected after the disaster has passed.

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

I studied indigenous Amazonian languages and Ethnobotany in college and managed to avoid taking any math, science or business courses (yes, I went to Brown University). We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets.

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Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra

QAspire

Akshaya Patra is an Indian NGO that provides mid day meals to about 1.2 They have built their own standard for supply chain right from procuring raw material to delivery of these meals in schools across. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL First, some background information. 600 (or ~$13).

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Morning Advantage: A Supply Chain Solution to an Age-Old Problem

Harvard Business Review

Here in the Guardian , two business professors offer a practical solution to all three problems using developing nations’ supply chains. When disaster strikes, the NGO would set up pop-up warehouses in those locations to channel relief directly from the manufacturers to the myriad micro sites.

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A Business Model for Bangladesh

Harvard Business Review

The true solution, we think, lies in understanding the changed nature of modern supply chains and identifying new business models better suited for managing them. The need to improve supply chain compliance does not come from moral arguments alone; the business consequences are also increasingly unescapable.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

These ranges were wide due to the relative size of the different players in the supply chain (for example, a company that has higher revenues will realize greater benefits than a smaller firm). Measuring Sustainability’s Impact Across the Value Chain. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%

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Can Walmart Get Us to Buy Sustainable Products?

Harvard Business Review

TSC has evolved into a collaboration of more than 100 of the world’s largest retailers, consumer product companies, and NGO and academic partners. That said, helping all of us as consumers understand which companies are managing their environmental and social impacts best is a good thing.