Articles Tagged With 'law'
| Date | Author | Category | Title |
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| Summer 2003 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management |
Doing Away with Lawyers
New research shows that binding contracts may actually reduce trust. |
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| Fall 2005 | Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Environment • Human Rights | 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 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Social Policy • Global Issues • Health • Environment | 15 minutes with Kaisha Atakhanova Kazakh biologist, activist, and environmental prize recipient. | |
| Winter 2005 | Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Social Policy • Global Issues • Environment | Logging in for the Environment Environmental lawyers around the world join forces via E-LAW. | |
| Spring 2007 | Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Social Policy • Global Issues • Human Rights | Policing the Police [Free!] The traditional approach among human rights groups in Nigeria had been accusatory: publicize injustices or sue the government. But in January 1998, on the eve of democracy, an NGO called the CLEEN foundation set out to reform law enforcement from within. | |
| Summer 2007 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Board Governance • Government • Social Policy | Laws, Not Lawyers How states can protect nonprofit leaders and infuse more money into the sector. | |
| Summer 2011 | Nonprofits • Nonprofit Leadership • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Government • Research | From Graft to Golf Lobbying and bribery are both time-honored ways to seek influence, but there is an important difference between them. |