All Articles About Governance & Accountability

BSR Insight Article: Business and Government: Working Together in the Reset World

Aron Cramer, President and CEO

I've just returned from a few days in Washington, D.C., and with that fresh in mind, the link between public policy and corporate responsibility seems a perfect topic for this inaugural edition of the BSR Insight. Read more →

Posted: July 14, 2009 | Topics: Governance & Accountability, Reporting & Communications, Stakeholder Relations, Strategy & Integration

Blog: The Next Big Ideas: Postcard from the Aspen Ideas Festival

Kara Hurst, Former Vice President

Here at the Aspen Ideas Festival (where, at 8,000 feet in elevation, every idea has the propensity to seem lofty), I have spent the better part of the week talking and debating about “ideas that work.” Read more →

Posted: July 2, 2009 | Topics: Governance & Accountability

Blog: The Future of the Corporation

Aron Cramer, President and CEO

I am just back from Boston where Corporation 2020—the ambitious effort to redefine corporate purpose—completed its second Summit on the Future of the Corporation. Read more →

Posted: June 15, 2009 | Topics: Governance & Accountability

Case Study: Promoting Business Engagement in Enhancing Effective Public Governance

Companies are increasingly finding that the boundaries between public and private responsibilities are unclear. Many CSR challenges flow directly from weak or poor governance, or from a lack of clarity about how to address questions of global significance. Appropriate business efforts to address topics ranging from climate change and labor standards to bribery and corruption are more likely to be successful where effective public governance is present. Indeed, true sustainable economic growth is more likely where governance mechanisms function effectively. Learn more →

Posted: June 1, 2009 Topics: Governance & Accountability

Blog: Facebook Is… Asking Users to Set Company Policy

Aron Cramer, President and CEO

You don’t have to be younger than 25 to know that Facebook is reshaping the way we communicate. Social networking is now mainstream, and with Facebook’s fascinating decision to open up the terms of use to definition by its users, the company may be reshaping corporate governance the same way it’s reshaped the web. Read more →

Posted: February 27, 2009 | Topics: Governance & Accountability, New Media, Stakeholder Relations