Social Responsibility

A three-question framework can help companies identify the most strategic sustainability issues.

Hans Joehr of NestlÌ© describes the company's agricultural "extension services" for rural farmers.

David Bresch, Head of Sustainability at Swiss Re, discusses the reinsurer's approach to climate change.

The 2013 Social Business Report by MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte finds more companies and more industries embracing social’s business insights.

With 435 labeling programs globally, companies need to be smart when picking one for their products.

The authors, including the Tata Group's former chairman, say companies need "a deeper purpose.”

One of Europe's largest home improvement retailers has a new approach to sustainability.

Caesars Entertainment uses a scorecard to guide managers in its sustainability efforts. Developing the right scorecard took time, but it gave corporate managers an opening for sustainability discussions. Numbers also showed that the more information hotel and casino guests had about the things the company was doing to reduce energy consumption, recycle waste and rebuild the local community, the better they felt about the company — and the more inclined they were to visit again.

How South African brewer SABMiller changed its water practices to make its beer more sustainable.

Car-sharing saves money and emissions for drivers, and makes money for the companies coordinating.