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A Better World, Inc.
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A Better World, Inc.

How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems...Where Governments Cannot

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 plus...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

The biblical four horsemen of the apocalypse – famine, death, war and pestilence – ride today, and other apocalyptic global problems gallop with them: human rights abuses, resource destruction, refugee crises, climate change, inadequate health care and inferior education. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) consultant Alice Korngold discusses these daunting global troubles and concludes that multinational corporations – not governments or international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) – can best address these staggering challenges. Korngold is a passionate yet practical idealist who has worked since the 1990s to help place top executives on the boards of NGOs. Whether companies do good for the sake of humanity or for sound public relations – or both – they are still doing good, nonetheless, and on a scale no other parties can match. Korngold provides essential reading for corporate executives – particularly at multinationals – as well as for CSR professionals, NGOs, students, investors and those interested in practical solutions to the world’s problems. getAbstract recommends her valuable report on how global firms tackle today’s woes, and how others can most effectively join them.

Take-Aways

  • Major troubles plaguing the planet are deleterious – even disastrous – for business.
  • World problems – poverty, disease, pollution – undermine the global economic system.
  • Corporations have the human resources, financial assets, global footprint, scalability and market power to address problems that transcend borders and overwhelm NGOs.

About the Author

Alice Korngold, author of Leveraging Good Will: Strengthening Nonprofits by Engaging Businesses, is president and CEO of Korngold Consulting LLC. She advises international corporations on how to exercise corporate social responsibility and how to work with nonprofits.


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