Archives for the 'Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility' Category

Impressive Video about the Consumption Society

Here is “The Story of Stuff”: an excellent video about the consumption society and about how we are destroying our planet. It criticizes specially the United States.
At least the end is kind of positive because it mentions some “green” trends taking place…

28 June 2008 | Trends At Work, Trends in Marketing, World Business Trends, Globalization, Into the Future, Lifestyle Trends, Advertising Trends, Trends in Retail, Trends in Food, Trends in Ecology and Environment Conservation, Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation, Trends in Culture, Trends in Energy, Trends in Moral and Ethics, Trends in Entertainment, Trends in Products, Changing Business Models | No Comments

Compensate Inefficacy With Inmorality

This seems to be the piece of advice given by an article published in the last North American edition of The Economist. It is surprising, coming from such a prestigious magazine.
Must we, then, also follow the recommendations of the book “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli, which states that “the end justifies the means”?
Do we live […]

28 December 2007 | Trends in Management, World Business Trends, Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility, Trends in Culture, Trends in Moral and Ethics | No Comments

Thomas Friedman And The Energy Crisis

Pop!Tech defines itself as a network of remarkable people, extraordinary conferences, powerful ideas & innovative projects that are changing the world.
At their website you can watch and listen to many conferences.
In this post we want to talk about the conference of Thomas Friedman, the author of “The World is Flat”.
In this conference, Friedman talks about […]

31 October 2007 | World Business Trends, Into the Future, Books about Trends, Trends in Ecology and Environment Conservation, Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation, Trends in Energy | No Comments

The Meatrix and “Factory Farming”

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development are two concepts relatively new in business administration.
Corporate Social Responsibility suggests that commercial corporations have a duty of care to all of their stakeholders in all aspects of their business operations.
Sustainable Development argues that enterprises should be obliged to make decisions based not only on financial/economic factors but also […]

2 February 2007 | Trends in Food, Trends in Ecology and Environment Conservation, Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility | No Comments