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CSR Starts with HR: Connecting the Dots

HR Digest

In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on corporate social responsibility (CSR), which refers to the ethical and social responsibilities of companies towards society and the environment through building community engagement.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. Rotten to the Core.

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Why I Appreciate Starbucks

Harvard Business Review

At Starbucks, that has meant contributing both money and time to meet local needs in the communities it serves, promoting sustainable farming communities and ethically sourcing coffee, and packaging and transporting its products with sensitivity to their environmental impact.

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What Leaders Need To Do To Successfully Resolve A Crisis

Tanveer Naseer

Include specific executive leadership instructions in all plans and response scenarios. The Grand Strategy is a 5-step leadership-driven process. Surgical facilities had to be as close as possible to the battle lines to reduce even further the risks and damage associated with transporting the wounded to urgent care.

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Seven Lessons American Manufacturing’s Decline Can Teach Any Company

Strategy Driven

Its workforce was inspired and committed. And that is a failure of American leadership on an epic scale; a failure of government to work with manufacturing instead of against it; a failure of business to adapt to the global marketplace instead of running from it. How can a company with those supposed ethics commit such an act?

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? One challenge, as you might expect, was introducing a software center that disrupted the existing GE’s power structure, which resides in its business units, such as Aviation, Healthcare, Power and Water, and Transportation.