Entries by Anthony Ewing

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Maturing Multi-Stakeholder Programs

Voluntary “multi-stakeholder” programs have been a prominent feature of the corporate responsibility landscape for more than a decade. Launched by companies, industry groups, NGOs, governments and international organizations, programs like the UN Global Compact, the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, and the Fair Labor Association, bring together diverse actors to tackle common problems on […]

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The Ruggie Report on Business and Human Rights: Lessons for Leading Companies

Harvard professor John G. Ruggie has submitted his third and final report to the United Nations Human Rights Council in his role as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations. The Ruggie Report is an important benchmark that captures current mainstream thinking on key business and human […]

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Corporate Responsibility in Global Supply Chains

Many leading corporate responsibility efforts are the result of stakeholder pressure on companies to improve labor conditions in their global supply chains. Since the 1990s, industries ranging from apparel, sporting goods and toys, to food, manufacturing and technology, have sought to demonstrate responsibility through supply chain compliance programs. Supply chain best practices – codes of […]

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Mainstreaming Corporate Responsibility

Three years ago, when The Economist first published a special report on corporate responsibility, the magazine took a highly skeptical view, asking whether, to justify its activities, a company must do anything more than simply earn a profit?[i] Not surprising, perhaps, that The Economist would echo the orthodox arguments of Milton Friedman, the economist who […]