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Posted Jun 16, 2010
Different companies have different priorities when it comes to being good corporate citizens. Your firm may be focused on feeding the hungry, while another may be into cleaning up the environment (or at least committed to preventing it from becoming more polluted). Or maybe you're lucky enough to work for a company with a wide target list of how to help out humanity.
Posted Apr 4, 2010
We have seen reports on environmental issues as they relate to travel. We have heard rhetoric, statements of intent, proud boasts, thinly veiled self promotion statements and promises of a ‘greener’ future. There have been board level corporate policies, conferences, business ventures linked to sustainability and a large number of ‘holier than thou’ declarations between competing companies. Strange how many of the leading standard bearers might be viewed as causing the problem like the fuel and energy giants But what has really happened?
Posted Oct 29, 2009
How do you measure your travel and meetings Corporate Social Responsibility ("CSR") program? What are your CSR priorities?
Posted Apr 9, 2009
An Association of Corporate Travel Executives conference session this week on the trafficking of children for the purpose of prostitution offered a rude awakening to the goings-on that international travel may facilitate. But perhaps more disturbing was the fact that just three U.S. companies from the travel and tourism sector had signed a "no tolerance" code of conduct that the not-for-profit organization End Child Prostitution and Trafficking created in 1998.
Posted Apr 1, 2009
Will green initiatives/CSR Survive a Down Economy? I ask my Magic 8 Ball for today’s outlook and it says: Not likely. If I ask for the future it says: Probable. This is common sense, right? But in actuality, a recent poll of corporate travel managers in the U.S. and Europe for The Wire ... from AirPlus shows that 41% have increased their commitment and/or awareness during this down economy. And another 56.8% feel that a corporate commitment to CSR/green initiatives will increase a company’s brand perception either overall or per industry. I found all of this encouraging, but I didn’t trust it. The results seemed too optimistic to be true, and don’t really match other study findings.
Posted Feb 6, 2009
Who cares about Corporate Social Responsibility when the economy is in a freefall? The answer is simple ... any company with the insight for long-term sustainability in a volatile marketplace. Those that want to emerge on the other side of this recession with a real chance at growth and profits.
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