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• Shareholders -- Suppliers or Owners?

  An interesting set of questions is raised in SRI Notes about the effect of defining a company's shareholders differenly than the traditional hypothesis that they are a company's "owners" and, therefore, entitled to its earnings (usually in the form of Read More... Posted 25 September 2006 16:49 by Boyd Neil | 3 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Defining Transparency

  First a mild mea culpa. . . In the description of my intentions for this blog, I make reference to "transparency" as one of its themes. It's been recently pointed out by an associate -- Doug Walker -- that I haven't defined the concept or explained my Read More... Posted 15 August 2006 13:23 by Boyd Neil | 2 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Investing for Good

  What I like about the condition of discussion on the merits of socially responible investing is its movement from the realm of the advocates to the ambit of economists, investment advisors and financial analysts . . . people inside the tent of corporate Read More... Posted 23 May 2006 18:29 by Boyd Neil | 1 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Social Software and Online Communities

  Sometimes I wish I lived in Vancouver . . . not for the mountains; although I am an aging mountain biker. Not for the restaurants; Toronto's are better. Not for the hockey; I will be a Leafs' fan until death. I just think it would be agreeable and refeshing Read More... Posted 05 May 2006 07:50 by Boyd Neil | 0 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• CSR and Return on Reputation

  There are two ways to look at one set of numbers from the MORI/Hill & Knowlton's global survey of financial analysts -- Return on Reputation : when asked the question Which of the following non-financial elements contribute to your assessment of a Read More... Posted 29 March 2006 18:12 by Boyd Neil | 2 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• CSR and Corporate Brand

  At a recent 1/2 day session called Corporate Social Responsibility and the Corporate Brand, Dr. Jay Handelman , associate professor of marketing at Queen's University School of Business, argued for CSR taking a central strategic role in a company's branding Read More... Posted 24 November 2005 12:45 by Boyd Neil | 2 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Resources on Socially Responsible Investing

  I have recently added a blog to my blogroll on socially responsible investing. This blog "salon" called SRI Notes features contributions by a number of writers, although the lead blogger appears to be a portfolio manager based in Palo Alto, Calfornia Read More... Posted 18 November 2005 16:15 by Boyd Neil | 1 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Citizen Journalism Redux

  Citizen journalism is becoming synonymous with blogs by professional journalists, reformed hackers and political pundits. This is unfortunate because true citizen journalism is something else . . . something more valuable in tracking mood and opinion Read More... Posted 01 November 2005 13:18 by Boyd Neil | 0 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• CSR and Human Rights Day Two

  Day two of the CBSR conference began with a pull-no-punches presentation by Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada . His message is simple . . . voluntarism in addressing human rights issues doesn't work; you need legally binding Read More... Posted 19 October 2005 19:17 by Boyd Neil | 2 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• CSR and Human Rights

  I am attending a conference in Toronto organized by Canadian Business for Social Responsibility called Human Rights: Everyone's Business . A two day conference, today's agenda included one panel on which three of the four panelists were H&K clients . Read More... Posted 18 October 2005 20:24 by Boyd Neil | 0 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Social Signals

  A friend of mine, Alexandra Samuel , who introduced some in H&K's Toronto office to the finer points of online discourse through something called "dialogue panels", has launched a new venture based out of Vancouver called Social Signal . The intended Read More... Posted 07 October 2005 08:30 by Boyd Neil | 19 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Community Organizing for the Individual

  A new website has added an arrow to the quiver of individuals who want to organize a cause, a campaign, a social event, even a music gig. Yesterday, Dan Gillmor drew his reader's attention to Pledgebank which is a way to "aggregate pledges into a critical Read More... Posted 06 October 2005 08:01 by Boyd Neil | 0 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Friedman, Whole Earth Foods & Semiconductors

  I can't help posting this one . . . a debate/discussion between Milton Friedman -- famous for his dictum that “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits” -- John Mackey , CEO of Whole Earth Foods, and T.J Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductors Read More... Posted 28 September 2005 19:45 by Boyd Neil | 0 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Citizen Journalism

  At a presentation on blogging and citizen journalism I gave last week at a media relations conference, I was surprised first of all that only one person in the room was a blogger and second that no one, even the experienced media relations experts present, Read More... Posted 25 September 2005 11:26 by Boyd Neil | 0 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Some Don't Get It

  Alan Murray, assistant managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, wrote a piece last week (September 14, 2005) that began like this: "The last time I wrote skeptically about corporate social responsiblity, I received a curt email from my mother. 'So,' Read More... Posted 19 September 2005 16:20 by Boyd Neil | 0 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency