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Over the course of two days last week, the U.S. Chamber’s Business Civic Leadership Center hosted its 2011 Global Corporate Citizenship Conference, which was attended by business leaders from around the country, including Brad Smith, General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Microsoft, and
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As the business sector’s ‘keeper of record’ in times of disasters, the U.S. Chamber Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) keeps up-to-date contributions for Japan. Today we are happy to report that the business community has made cash and/or in-kind contributions of more than $200.8 million.
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This week was a tale of two events that underscored a tension many people in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) world face – are we in philanthropy and humanitarian assistance or are we in development? Are we giving out fish or are we teaching people how to fish? Are we prioritizing busine
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In yesterday’s post, I examined the impact and fallout of the current economic situation. So what are corporate citizens doing about it?
During this economic crisis, corporate citizens are operating at multiple levels.
Employee Relations – Particularly if you have lay-offs, you are going to be on
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Taking Stock of the Current Situation
The data is grim at every level -- local, state, and national. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the House Majority Whip, says that unemployment is hitting close to 24% in Sumter County, SC. Michigan has over 11.6% unemployment.
According to Jeff Finkle, the head
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"May you live in interesting times."
It’s an old Chinese curse that has seldom been more true than today. In one day, more than 70,000 job cuts were announced. The stock markets are down nearly 40% from their high water marks. Bankruptcies are up, investment is down. A quick survey of the rest of
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In this post Edward Glaeser asks if businesses can do well and do good. The answer is, of course, yes. This is a no-brainer; or rather, businesses have to embed "goodness" in their business practices in order to succeed.
For example, in order for businesses to be able to sell their products more th
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As we look back at 2008, we've seen three bubbles pop: housing, energy, and finance. We’ve had an unusually heavy disaster year, with wildfires in southern California, floods in the Midwest, hurricanes affecting the Gulf Coast, and an earthquake and cyclone hitting China and Myanmar, respectively.
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For the first time, FEMA invited a private sector organization -- namely BCLC -- to sit in a Joint Field Office as they coordinate the response to a major storm, in this case, Hurricane Ike. So Ollie Davidson and I jumped on a plane on a Tuesday and went down to Austin where the JFO is headquarter
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Concerned about differences in levels of disaster preparedness in the U.S., Allstate has awarded the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) $100,000 to identify and benchmark effective disaster assistance and recovery practices across states. The study will help state and
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Amid the angry political debate swirling around the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, there is a real concern that people may lose sight of some of the positive contributions multinational companies are making to the region.
Just as critics would ask that criticisms of the Colombia FTA be taken seriou
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Long-time friend, advisor, and contributor to the BCLC Don Eberly has just written a book titled "The Rise of Global Civil Society".
The book provides a close look at the "shift from vertical to horizontal power that official aid agencies are only beginning to comprehend. Whereas twenty-five years
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While the Bush Administration has received its share of criticism after Katrina, at least one federal government official genuinely deserves to be recognized for his service to the people of the Gulf Coast and our country.
Today, Don Powell submitted his resignation as Federal C
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One of the best aspects of capitalism is that if you have the vision, the will, the capacity, the drive, and the chutzpah, you can create value anywhere. I sat in on a briefing yesterday where John Orrison, an assistant vice president at BNSF Railway, talked about creating a $1 billion railway to c
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Bill Gates recent speech in Davos sure generated its share of mixed reactions.
Larry Kudlow completely trashed him, while ivory tower economists gave him a skeptical thank you. Every pundit worth their punch went to Bill “White Man’s Burden” Easterly for a negative comment, and Bono just ate it
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Over the past few years, the disaster response process had become very “front-loaded” – focused on mobilizing resources for the emergency response and relief activities, while recovery was kind of an afterthought.
Next week on January 17, we are going to host a forum in San Diego to capture lesson
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For some reason, if all you saw was political news, you would think that the pharmaceutical industry was made up of inhuman robots who only care about vacuuming up gold ducats wherever they find them. The rhetoric – even coming from some supposedly responsible presidential campaigns – is so overhe
