By Sylvia Ciesluk, Research Associate, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship

How are companies measuring various citizenship issues and how well are those measurements used as part of a strategy to communicate corporate citizenship efforts? Not very well, according to findings of the Boston College Center’s latest landscape study. Read the rest of this entry »

There certainly is a lot of truth in the classic challenge of not being able to see the forest for the trees. Perspective is so difficult to achieve through the din of the daily grind and overly scheduled weeks.

For those of us immersed in corporate citizenship there is the all too common trap of becoming overly focused on a particular event, the crisis du jour or funded project while forgetting what is at the heart of the matter. Read the rest of this entry »

Corporate citizenship has arrived. And it seems there’s a mad rush to issue a press release. Read the rest of this entry »

GE has released its fourth annual citizenship report, “Investing and Delivering in Citizenship.” The 2007-2008 report reviews GE’s citizenship from the perspective of four key themes – energy and climate change, demographics, growth markets and financial markets. Read the rest of this entry »