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AEI in DC on March 3: Is Corporate Social Responsibility Serious Business?

  • 1.  AEI in DC on March 3: Is Corporate Social Responsibility Serious Business?

    Posted 02-20-2006 08:52
    This all-day symposium on CSR is open to the public. Anyone interested can register at http://www.aei.org/event1265.

    Jon Entine

    Is Corporate Social Responsibility Serious Business?
     
    http://www.aei.org/events/eventID.1265,filter./register.asp>

    Friday, March 3, 2006 9:00 AM

    Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
    1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

    Directions to AEI <http://www.aei.org/about/msgkey.20038142214000070,pageID.70/default.asp>

    A decade ago, corporate social responsibility (CSR) was a trendy idea promoted by quirky entrepreneurial companies like Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. Now more than 50 percent of the Global 250 corporations issue corporate responsibility reports, and the public expects visible CSR initiatives from businesses of all sizes. Many companies use CSR as a way to burnish their image, generate brand equity, and increase employee loyalty. Corporate critics and "socially responsible investors" have developed CSR measures to promote wide-ranging policies, including labor rights and curbs on global warming. But is CSR really a win-win situation˜as its promoters claim˜for both corporations and the public? Corporate leaders struggle with determining to whom their social responsibilities extend: to shareholders, employees, local communities, the environment, humanity as a whole, future generations? This conference, organized by NGO Watch˜a project sponsored by AEI and the Federalist Society˜ will examine the complex global CSR phenomenon and take an in-depth look at Wal-Mart, which has been under fire for some of its corporate, social, and environmental practices. It will also draw upon the views of a wide range of CSR advocates and critics from academia, the corporate and public relations worlds, and the media.

    8:45 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

    9:00 Welcome: Jon Entine, AEI

    9:10 Panel I: Does Corporate Social Responsibility Make Good Sense?

        Panelists:  Elaine Sternberg, Leeds University and Tulane University
                        David Vogel, Haas School of Business and Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
     
        Moderator: Mark A. Cohen, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt Center for Environmental
                          Management Studies

    10:30 Break
     
    10:40 Panel II: CSR in a Globalized World
     
    Panelists:      Aron Cramer, Business for Social Responsibility
                        Philip H. Rudolph, Ethical Leadership Group
                        Barbara Shephard, Doe Run Company
                        
     Moderator:  James K. Glassman, AEI

    12:15 p.m. Luncheon

    12:30 Luncheon Keynote Introduction: Jon Entine, AEI
                        Keynote: Clive Crook, Atlantic Media Group

    1:30 Panel III: Wal-Mart in the Crosshairs

    Speakers: Roger Ballentine, Green Strategies
                    Arindrajit Dube, University of California, Berkeley
                    Michael Hicks, Air Force Institute of Technology, Marshall University
                    Chris Holling, Global Insight
     
    Moderators:
    Mark A. Cohen, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies
    Jon Entine, AEI

    3:30    Panel IV: Lessons from Wal-Mart: CSR in the Real World

    Panelists:  Frank Dixon, Innovest
                    Russell Roberts, Hoover Institution

     Moderators: Mark A. Cohen, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management
                       Studies

                        Jon Entine, AEI

    4:30    Adjournment

     
    REGISTER AT: http://www.aei.org/events/eventID.1265,filter./register.asp>


    More Information
    Flavius  Mihaies
    American Enterprise Institute
     1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
    Washington, DC  20036
    Phone: 202-828-6035
    Fax: 202-862-7177
    E-mail: FMihaies@aei.org

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    Veronique  Rodman
    American Enterprise Institute
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    E-mail: VRodman@aei.org