Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review is an award-winning magazine covering best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. Published quarterly by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Articles: Corporate Social Responsiblity

Date Author Category Title
Spring 2006
Alessandra Bianchi
Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Rethinking Corporate Philanthropy [Free!]

Exploiting core competencies is only half the story.

Spring 2006
Mark Dowie
Environment • Corporate Social Responsiblity • Government The Hidden Cost of Paradise

Indigenous people are being displaced to create wilderness areas, to the detriment of all.

Winter 2005
Anne Stuhldreher
Economic Development • Corporate Social Responsiblity 15 Minutes with Margaret Henningsen

How an African-American banker is rebuilding her community.

Winter 2005
Alessandra Bianchi
Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing The Other 95 Percent [Free!]

How a community foundation uses proxy voting to advance its mission.

Winter 2005
Cliff Terry
Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing All Fired Up

How an insurance company helps its workers support their local fire departments.

Fall 2005
Deborah Doane
Human Rights • Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsiblity The Myth of CSR [Free!]

As nice as it is to think that modern corporations can do well while also doing good, there are serious limitations that the market imposes on their CSR initiatives. In addition, the legal obligations of corporations to their shareholders further restrict CSR’s potential to help solve social and environmental problems. At some point, we should be asking ourselves whether or not we’ve been promoting a strategy more likely to lead to business as usual than to tackling the fundamental problems of our time. 

Fall 2005
Jonathan B. Levine
Health Care • Nonprofit Management • Corporate Social Responsiblity Sharing Power

How Merck and the WHO have sustained a fragile balance
of power in their battle against river blindness.

Summer 2005
Ricardo Sandoval
Economic Development • Corporate Social Responsiblity Block by Block [Free!]

How one of the world’s largest companies builds loyalty among Mexico’s poor.

Summer 2005
Keith Epstein
Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Philanthropy, Inc. [Free!]

How today’s corporate donors want their gifts to help the bottom line.

Summer 2005
Marguerite Rigoglioso
Corporate Social Responsiblity In Bad Times, It Pays to Be Good

A reputation for CSR may shield
companies from the public’s ire.

Summer 2005
Stuart L. Hart & Ted London
Economic Development • Corporate Social Responsiblity Developing Native Capability

What multinational corporations can learn from the base of the pyramid.

Spring 2005
Pamela Yatsko
Corporate Social Responsiblity Managing Medusa

A Hong Kong manufacturer brings business practices to social services in Asia. 

Spring 2005
Gerald Burstyn
Corporate Social Responsiblity Hidden Agenda

Corporations give away billions each year,
but what’s the real reason why?

Winter 2004
Wayne Dunn
Economic Development • Corporate Social Responsiblity Golden Opportunity [Free!]

When a Canadian multinational laid off hundreds of
gold miners in South Africa, it went many extra
miles to help them get back on their feet.

Fall 2004
Jan Chong
Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Determining Diversity

Do socially responsible funds ask the right questions?

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