Generating support for the lifesaving work of Children’s Hospital Boston is a vital, never-ending mission. To expand that mission and carry it into the future, Children’s is reaching out in a new way to an audience with a lot at stake in the hospital’s work – kids. Read the rest of this entry »

Just in time for inclusion on your summer reading list, the latest issue of the Boston College Center’s annual magazine, The Corporate Citizen, is now available on our web site.

As in previous issues, the third issue of The Corporate Citizen looks at a wide range of issues in the field of corporate citizenship and the changing place of business in society. The magazine combines researchers’ findings, academics’ observations and practitioners’ experiences in informative and interesting articles. Read the rest of this entry »

The economic downturn of 2008-2009 has taken a toll on some corporate citizenship programs, but has it also served as a wake-up call for companies to re-evaluate the way they do business and identify new opportunities from corporate citizenship? As the results of the biennial State of the Corporate Citizenship Survey conducted this June come in, we are examining whether business aspirations and behavior have changed over the six years since the survey began, and particularly during the recent economic turmoil. Results will be released during a Center webinar on September 16. Read the rest of this entry »

Most companies are now pretty savvy about the stakeholders they need to pay attention to – the local and federal government, key NGOs, labor unions, community groups, and general employees and consumers, to name a few. Companies now often map these stakeholders according to their interests and influence on the company. But do you know how these stakeholder groups map globally? Would your stakeholder map be different from one country to the next? Read the rest of this entry »