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This chapter looks at different dimensions of corporate social responsibility and stresses that the ethical responsibility of business must be a core component of…
The Moral Basis for Business Activity
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the role of profit-oriented business in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. He explores the considerations that…
The Role of Business in the SDGs
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Speaking from West Papua, Indonesia, where he was attending a high-level meeting on green investment, business leader Paul Polman shares his thoughts on the challenges…
Leadership in the Corporate Sector | Paul Polman
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This chapter overviews investments in oil, gas and mining projects. It includes a comparison of private and state ventures. Sources of income include: cash from existing…
How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project
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In this case study, Emilio Guzman shares some insights and thoughts about corporate social responsibility and sustainability being integrated in a business partnerships…
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water…
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Good governance is a tenet of development, and when governments are corrupt, economic development and individual sense of well-being within the government's reach…
Corruption and Global Business
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses ways that investors can be civil society activists in addition to environmental, social, and governance investing. He explains…
Investor Activism
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It is time to think about how SDG 5 on gender equality could be implemented! SDG 5 aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. In this video…
Implementing SDG 5: Gender equality
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This chapter describes the issues with current-day capitalism, using Faustian logic, and explains why it is neccessary to devise new institutions of governance,…
Global Capitalism is a Faustian Bargain: Greed in…
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En este vídeo, Pedro Less contesta preguntas generales sobre la perspectiva y el rol del sector privado en el desarrollo sostenible. This video is licensed under…
La perspectiva del sector privado
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This chapter focuses on the process of using ethical business practices to build communities of opportunity. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
Business Leadership for Community Well-being
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In this chapter, Peter Bakker talks about the role of business in fighting climate change. He declares the Paris Climate Agreement as a success and outlines the three…
Business Solutions for Climate Change
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This chapter discusses interactions between the public and private sectors through the role of pressure groups, who push the government in the direction of higher…
Interactions Between the Public and Private…
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This chapter looks further into the business manager’s perspective on the Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizing the need for business managers to understand…
Shareholders and Stakeholders
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This chapter talks about the arrival of capitalist institutions which remade societies by creating market relations for labor, land, intellectual property, and other…
The Market Economy: Specialization, Division of…
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In this chapter, Sonia Massari discusses why sustainability issues require new skills and professional profiles. She proposes the idea of sustainability natives, similar…
Professionals Need to Face Sustainability Issues
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