Summary

A Force for Good company is not one that sticks its head in the sand, or claims to be an island. It does not say it "cares deeply and passionately” about an issue, but does nothing to change its behaviour.

 

A Force for Good company recognises that in order to survive and prosper, the environment in which it operates must also survive and prosper. A Force for Good company becomes both more profitable and more resilient by maintaining the relationships that determine the health of its business ‘environment’, and its natural environment.

 

What that looks like is different for different businesses. The material below gives some examples.

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posted by Admin  on June 19, 2008
Date: June 2008A report and interactive webtool that rates and ranks the efforts of 20 of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to increase universal access to medicine
     

posted by Admin  on January 25, 2011
Anant Nadkarni, VP Group Corporate Sustainability, describes the Tata journey as well as outlining Tata's work in assessing impact through the Tata index.
     

posted by Jeff  on April 23, 2011
Few writers have devoted more time to the everalsting conflict between Good and Evil, War and Peace, Love and Violence than Leo Tolstoy and it was in helping a friend compile a book on Malcolm Muggeridge that I first discovered the story of the Green Stick.  What I  also learned of Muggeridge was his endeavours in the 1930s to report on Stalin's man made Famine which he described as  "“one of the most monstrous crimes in history, so terrible that people in the future will scarcely believe it ever happened.”.  It was an experience that haunted him for the rest of his life. One of my favourite extracts from the 1970s TV series Kung Fu, is the scene where two youths report to their master having been robbed. The lesson learned is that "We affirm the good in man through trust and deal with evil through strength". That we should not seek reward in striving for an ideal. but that trust can lead to love.  Our own experience was to discover the story which was to become know as 'Death...
     

posted by Admin  on July 10, 2008
In late 2007, the Economist Intelligence Unit interviewed thought leaders and more than 1,200 executives worldwide to create this 55 page report on Business and Sustainability.
     

posted by Admin  on June 24, 2008
Date: June 2008Muhammad Yunus talks to students at MIT about Grameen, how social businesses work, and tells them that "each of you has the power to change the world"
     

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