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Expedition Antarctic 2009
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Tomorrow I will be fortunate enough to be traveling to Antarctica, taking part on a once in a lifetime opportunity, The Expedition Antarctic 2009. This is an 11-day student and change makers expedition...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on March 23, 2009 12:22 PM
Summer Associate Positions - Acumen Fund
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Acumen Fund is now offering summer associate positions for Portfolio Associates, Knowledge and Communications and Business Development in New York, Pakistan and India. Aplications will be accepted until Februrary 20th. We worked this...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 3, 2009 09:46 AM
Social Responsibility Forum
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management For third straight year, the Social Responsibility Forum will be taking place at IE Business School, November 14 and 15. This is our annual main event which brings together experts who engage in...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on October 27, 2008 04:54 PM
Multi-Stakeholder perspectives at GE
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management GE has taken a proactive stance on Corporate Citizenship with initiatives such as ecomagination, which brings together needs from society with their core business. They have now a new site dedicated to reporting...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on September 2, 2008 09:55 AM
Measuring Impact
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The WBCSD has developed a new tool in order to assess the social impact of business. Through a stakeholder engagement framework, it follows four steps in order to have both, better relations and...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on August 29, 2008 12:33 PM
Reflections on ethics
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management I have always had a struggle to find a compelling and inclusive way to address ethics, that is until now. Luckily for me, I had the chance to meet Oscar Motomura at the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on August 28, 2008 11:11 AM
Without outside pressure, corporations will not take meaningful action on sustainability
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The Economist is holding an online debate on Corporate Sustainability. The main question their asking is weather outside pressure is required for companies to take meaningful action on sustainability. The debate will be...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on June 23, 2008 10:38 AM
Prince of Asturias Award for fight against malaria in Africa
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management This year’s Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation has been awarded to the organizations leading the fight against malaria in Africa, which are: The Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre (Tanzania), the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 29, 2008 10:22 AM
A visual account on world changing events
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Year after year events take place at IE and elsewhere which demand remembrance, sharing and continuity on the conversations they entail. It is an energy which can hardly be shared if not lived...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 12, 2008 12:45 PM
Where will they Lead? MBA 2008 Student Survey
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The Aspen Institute has just released their "Where Will They Lead? 2008” survey of more than 1,900 MBA student’s attitudes about business and society. It is interesting when compared with the same surveys...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 25, 2008 12:03 PM
How to make business with the Base of the Pyramid
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management We have the pleasure to invite you to participate in a discussion on how to make business with the Base of the Pyramid. The session will provide an opportunity to engage directly with...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 22, 2008 12:09 PM
Jobs on CSR and Development
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Here are some Jobs on Base of the Pyramid, ranging from COO positions to Management Consulting and Microfinance Development: • Chief Operating Officer at Scojo Foundation. The Scojo Foundation is a global social...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 14, 2008 04:31 PM
IBM Study on CSR
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management IBM has just released yet another study which strengthens companies views in regards to Corporate Responsibility, seeing it as a growth opportunity rather than just a regulatory compliance or philanthropic effort, with 68...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 13, 2008 10:46 AM
A Sustainable Perspective
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management On February 21st we will have at IE Business School a conversation which brings together a Sustainable Perspective. Arthur Dahl, Coordinator of the UNEP/University of Geneva Programme of Advanced Studies in Environmental Diplomacy...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 12, 2008 10:32 AM
The Economist - CSR is just good business
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Check the economist of this week. A special report on CSR is included which has certainly evolved from that presented a couple of years ago and which clearly contributed to strengthen the conversation....
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 18, 2008 05:02 PM
FTSE4GooDIBEX: Localizing Social Responsible Investment
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management IE Business School and At Stake Advisors have the pleasure to invite you to participate in a discussion about the innovative FTSE4GoodIBEX Index. The session will provide an opportunity to engage directly with...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 14, 2008 05:39 PM
Responsabilidad social empresarial, ¿estafa a los accionistas o fuente de rentabilidad?
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Me pidieron que escribiese un artículo señalando algunas de las diferencias existentes entre la Responsabilidad Corporativa y la Acción Social. Al final tras ser editado quedo algo muy distinto a lo que escribí,...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on December 19, 2007 01:09 PM
SKIP scoops first prize at the JPMorgan Good Venture Competition
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management On December 12, students from IE Business School, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Hamline University won the second edition of JPMorgan’s Good Venture Competition. The competition focuses on developing philanthropic non-profit organisations. This...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on December 19, 2007 12:59 PM
Innovative solution to AIDS treatment in Africa
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management On November 21, Marion Descottes and Miguel Monforte Nicolas, two MBA students from IE Business school, won first prize at the Infocom Future leadership Award one of India’s premier essay writing competitions. This...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on December 19, 2007 12:52 PM
Caja Navarra en IE Business School
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Caja Navarra ha sido recientemente reconocida por el estudio merco como la marca financiera regional de mayor reputación. Una marca que ha adquirido un alto protagonismo en el sector en un corto periodo...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on December 11, 2007 10:40 AM
NGO-Private Sector Sustainability Partnerships: Opportunities and Risks
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Rémi Parmentier, Director of Varda Group and Founding Member of Greenpeace International will be at IE Business School on Tuesday, December 11th, as part of the 7th Annual Global Affairs Forum. What are...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on December 7, 2007 11:29 AM
El Despido Interior
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Lotfi El Ghandouri presentará hoy martes su libro El Despido Interior junto con Gustavo Zerbino, sobreviviente de los Andes. El Despido Interior explica un proceso que sufren muchos profesionales, que van "tirando la...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on November 27, 2007 11:18 AM
Paty Ruiz Corzo - Ashoka Fellow at IE Business School
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Paty Ruiz Corzo will be at IE Business School this coming Wednesday, November 21, sharing a conversation with both environmental practitioners and IE students. After the SR Forum and IE Alumni Day, we...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on November 19, 2007 05:06 AM
2nd Social Responsibility Forum
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The 2nd Annual Social Responsibility Forum, titled “Find Your Impact”, hosted by IE Business School and the IE Net Impact chapter will take place November 14th and 15th. In our second year hosting...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on November 5, 2007 09:44 AM
Desafíos de un planeta en cambio
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management La Conferencia Anual de Antiguos Alumnos se ha convertido en el acto más significativo para los antiguos alumnos de IE Business School. En su pasada edición reunimos a 1500 alumnos. Este año hemos...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on October 17, 2007 11:01 AM
IE’s MBA program among the top 10 worldwide in Aspen Institute’s sustainability ranking
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Madrid, October 10, 2007. IE Business School is No.10 in the world and No. 1 in Europe in the biennial MBA ranking published by The Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education. The Aspen...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on October 11, 2007 12:25 PM
Manifiesto por la Responsabilidad Social de las Empresas
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Da gusto ver un manifiesto sobre la responsabilidad social de las empresas (RSE) en España, impulsado por profesionales, académicos y personas comprometidas con su entorno, que van más allá del simple juego de...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on October 1, 2007 09:57 AM
2007 Millennium Development Goals Report
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The UN has recently released the 2007 progress chart and report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on September 3, 2007 10:27 AM
August's Update
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management We’re back from the summer break and eager to continue the conversation on corporate responsibility and sustainability. As last year, I include a list of events and topics which took place in the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on August 31, 2007 02:49 PM
Giving is the ultimate luxury: Wally Olins at IE
Olga Slavkina, Wally Olins, Max Oliva, Juan Pablo Ramirez and Jacob Benbunan (photo Irene Medina) Some time ago Olga Slavkina (IMBA 07) was told that if she wanted to know something about brands she should read “On Brand” Wally...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on July 11, 2007 06:10 PM
Hans Rosling on Health, Money and Sex in Sweden
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Hans Rosling's first GapCast is here. Professor Rosling shows how economic growth, public health and sexual rights have changed in Sweden during 300 years. How has life expectancy and GDP per capita of...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on July 4, 2007 10:06 AM
EcologIE
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Dear IE Community and Friends! We are pleased to announce the founding of EcologIE - a platform intended to foster the interaction among IE students, faculty, staff, environmentally responsible corporations, field experts, similarly...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on June 25, 2007 12:27 PM
Developing a more creative capitalism
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management On June 7th, Bill Gates addressed Harvard students with an eloquent and well prepared speech on their graduation ceremony. But it was not just another speech. Referencing Marshall’s speech 60 years ago when...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on June 22, 2007 11:57 AM
Crisis = Challenge & Opportunity
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management It's interesting to see how Nike has radically evolved from being “an unethical company” which was "compliant" with child labour throughout its supply chain, representing a huge reputational crisis, into a company...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on June 4, 2007 11:09 AM
Talento y Responsabilidad Corporativa
Max Oliva, Director Asociado, Social Impact Management El talento y la responsabilidad corporativa ha sido el tema de la V Tribuna de PwC & IE, la cual ha tenido lugar el día de hoy (28 de Mayo) y en la...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 28, 2007 05:34 PM
Africa - Innovations for the BoP market
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Africa - Which areas of innovation hold the best promise for enabling economic development? This first-ever public ThinkPlace Challenge is a three-week online event designed to foster global collaboration on innovations that can...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 8, 2007 10:27 AM
"Mitigation of Climate Change" - The IPCC Report
Max Oliva, Director Asociado, Social Impact Management The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 4, 2007 03:53 PM
4 Foro de Economía y Sostenibilidad - Liderazgo Responsable
Max Oliva, Director Asociado, Social Impact Management Dirigido por Joaquín Garralda, Director del Centro PwC & IE en Responsabilidad Corporativa y organizado por la Fundación Santander, el foro de economía y sostenibilidad tendrá lugar en el Instituto de Empresa entre...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 3, 2007 02:54 PM
Link between Competitive Advantage and CSR
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Michael Porter and Mark Kramer’s “Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility” article has been recognized as Harvard Business Review's Top Article of the Year. Porter and Kramer...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 16, 2007 11:52 AM
2007 Business in Development Challenge
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management For those of you who are still considering taking the Social Entrepreneurship Track at IE, here's one more incentive to take the step: The BiD Challenge is here again. The BiD Challenge 2007...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 13, 2007 11:10 AM
Poverty and Human Development - Submit your papers
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The Council of Science Editors is organizing a Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development in October 2007. 160 Science journals throughout the world will simultaneously publish papers on this topic of...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on March 29, 2007 09:27 AM
2007 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The Skoll World Forum is taking place today and until this Thursday. I have surfed through the Social Edge website all morning and sadly have not had access to the conferences live, as...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on March 27, 2007 11:12 AM
2007 Global Champions of Sustainable Innovation
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Philipp, Tobias, Guillermo and Blagoja have come up with the grand prize of the Sustainable Innovation Challenge competition at Thunderbird, which challenges the teams to come up with the most innovative solution to...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on March 26, 2007 11:11 AM
The Hub Rotterdam
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management You've read about The Hub, a space for social innovation. Well, if you live in the Netherlands and want to be part of the Hub Rotterdam, an incubator for social, sustainable innovation, don't...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on March 23, 2007 06:46 PM
Workshop on Corporate Governance
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The Research Workshop on Corporate Governance co organized by IE Business School, IESE, CEMFI and Universidad Carlos III had the participation of more than 40 academics from different Spanish universities and research centres....
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on March 22, 2007 01:19 PM
The Next 4 Billion
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The World Resources Institute and the International Finance Corporation have just released “The Next 4 Billion” report. Based on the works of C.K. Prahalad and his book on "The Fortune at the Bottom...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on March 20, 2007 06:15 PM
Fundación Bip Bip y Fundación Logística Justa
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Fundación Bip Bip, cuya misión es la de acercar las nuevas tecnologías a los colectivos más desfavorecidos, ha creado www.puntoOrg.org, el primer portal de referencia en Internet exclusivamente dedicado a conseguir que el...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on March 19, 2007 11:01 AM
Online Atlas on Millennium Development Goals
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management I have come across a very interesting and interactive Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals. These goals are both, being a challenge to poor countries to demonstrate good governance and a commitment...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on March 16, 2007 11:06 AM
TED 2007 Conference
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management If there where any place where I would like to be today instead of “not yet so sunny Madrid”, it would either be at a paradisiacal beach in the Mayan Riviera or, last...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on March 9, 2007 11:07 AM
The Hub - A space for Social Innovation
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management How about a real space that fosters social innovation? A space where social entrepreneurship can be breathed on every corner. This has been The Hub in London experience. Their core product is flexible...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on March 7, 2007 10:09 AM
The Hub Madrid - A Space for Social Innovation
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management You've got things to do. People to meet. Ideas to realise. Events to host. A business to run. So what's the deal? You need the flexibility to scale up, wind down, change gear,...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 23, 2007 12:48 PM
The Robin Cosgrove Prize for Innovative Ideas for Ethics in Finance
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Are you aged 35 years or younger? Do you have an interest in the banking and related financial industries? Don't miss the opportunity then to take part on The Robin Cosgrove Prize. The...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 20, 2007 09:50 AM
Higher Food Prices due to Climate Change
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The Economist has just written an article which states that climate change may drive food prices higher. They are as always good in challenging the given views in order to strengthen the conversations....
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 19, 2007 12:37 PM
Climate Change
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management This has been a hectic week in regards to climate change and action. Most importantly, delegates from the G8 (Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, the United States, Canada and Japan) plus 5 countries...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 16, 2007 05:59 PM
Vaccines for Neglected Diseases
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management A €1.16 billion program is being funded in order to encourage drug companies to come up with vaccines to help prevent pneumonia and meningitis, intended to save the lives of more than 5...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 9, 2007 06:54 PM
Business Solutions for the Global Poor
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management HBS Working Knowledge has just interviewed Professor Kasturi (Kash) Rangan on his latest book, Business Solutions for the Global Poor, which includes the conclusions of the December 2005 Conference on Global Poverty: Business...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 8, 2007 11:06 AM
Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" in Madrid
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management I have been this morning at the EMCG's conference given by Al Gore in Madrid, Spain. His now “usual” Inconvenient Truth presentation was well addressed, loosing a bit of the impact he has...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 7, 2007 04:32 PM
The links between advertising and childhood obesity
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management It is interesting to see today’s FT main story, which relates to Mars pulling out child adverts. They are to stop marketing confectionery to children younger than 12 by the end of the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 5, 2007 06:06 PM
U.N. Report on Climate Change - Take Action
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management I have received in the last couple of days several e-mails and event appointments in my outlook to join a five minute blackout which takes place tonight, from 19:55-20:00 CET. This social movement,...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on February 1, 2007 10:29 AM
World Trade, Climate Change and Africa
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Davos is over, some thoughts remain and most importantly, a call to action. I briefly go into some of the problems in the Davos’ agenda shared by Tony Blair: • World Trade •...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 31, 2007 05:07 PM
Climate Change: A Call to Action
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management FT just before Davos: “Few would have predicted at the start of 2006 that a slide show lecture on the science of climate change would become a cinema blockbuster.” Al Gore’s film An...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 25, 2007 04:07 PM
Davos is here! Join the Conversation
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Don't miss the chance that technology has brought in enabling you to follow conversations which make a difference. How about sharing the table and most importantly, the conversation on The Shifting Power Equation...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 24, 2007 02:45 PM
Research Workshop on Corporate Governance
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management IE Business School is hosting a Workshop on Corporate Governance to be celebrated on Friday, Februrary 16th. As part of our firm commitment to excellence in academic research, IE Business School, jointly with...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 22, 2007 04:54 PM
CGD: Entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa and Global Inequality
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The Center for Global Development has just written in regards to two very interesting subjects which relate to Africa and a different way of picturing world income distribution. The first is in regards...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 17, 2007 09:53 AM
Customers care more than ever how products are made
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Marks & Spencer has just announced "Plan A", a business-wide £200m "eco-plan" which will have an impact on every part of M&S' operations over the next five years. The 100-point plan means that...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 16, 2007 04:22 PM
Offset your Laptop's 3 year CO2 emmissions for US$2
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Dell, The Conservation Fund and Carbonfund.org have just announced a joint, global carbon-neutral initiative to offset the carbon dioxide produced when customers power their computer systems. Called “Plant a Tree for Me,” the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 10, 2007 12:12 PM
Take part on this year's World Economic Forum
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Time's Person of the Year is YOU. The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. And we didn't just watch, we also worked. Its also time to take part on...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 9, 2007 04:39 PM
ExxonMobil's manufactured uncertainty on Climate Change
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The Union of Concerned Scientists has just released a report which offers the latest in the ExxonMobil disinformation tactics in regards to global warming, comparing it to that which the tobacco industry took...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 8, 2007 10:16 AM
2007 will be the warmest year ever
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management It could not all be good news with the new born year. While GDP has had an unprecedented growth, so has the global warming phenomenon. According to experts, a combined phenomenon of El...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 5, 2007 09:58 AM
Doing Good and Doing Well Jobs
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management For those job seekers, 2007 looks even more promising than 2006! Here are some current offers: International Aid + Trade has several positions The Global Fund has a large recruitment campaign underway Google.org...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 4, 2007 12:52 PM
2006 Highlights
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management 2006 was a year full of highlights in corporate responsibility and sustainability. Going from a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to international awareness on global warming, it certainly was a year which proved the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on January 4, 2007 11:42 AM
Top Talent, take part of this year's Acumen Fund Fellows Program
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The Acumen Fund is trying to create an “entrepreneurial bench” of top talent with strong financial and operational skills as well as the moral imagination to build appropriate enterprises with local stakeholders. Through...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on December 5, 2006 04:53 PM
Take part of The Global Fund 5 year evaluation
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management The Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which has around $10bn raised money to fight these diseases, has recently held its 14th board meeting. It's interesting to see the views from...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on December 5, 2006 09:57 AM
This year's Social and Economic Innovation Award goest to...
Max Oliva, Associate Director, Social Impact Management Hernando de Soto has just won this year’s Economist Innovation Award. As a founder and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Hernando de Soto has been working fully for the promotion...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on December 4, 2006 09:39 AM
Travel for Good and Responsible Tourism
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Travelocity is looking at making Voluntourism mainstream as Part of ''Travel for Good'' Initiative. They are inviting consumers to join employee volunteers on National Public Lands Day September 30 as the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on September 28, 2006 11:50 AM
Don't read this post today
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Don’t go to the gym, surf the web or leave office early today. If you find a better way of INVESTING one hour of your time than by joining an enlightened...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on September 22, 2006 11:23 AM
Crisis = Danger & Opportunity. The Clinton Global Initiative is here.
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The 2006 Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting, wich is truly designed to inspire action, is taking place September 20-22. You can watch it ALL through LIVE Webcasts. I have just seen...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on September 21, 2006 08:12 PM
The "What Are You Willing to Do?" Campaign
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Our friends from OneVoice have undertaken a very interesting approach since 2002 at engaging Palestinians and Israelis in greater civic involvement. The following has been posted on their blog: “Take a...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on September 21, 2006 11:32 AM
Acumen Fund and Social Entrepreneurship in Action
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund which uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty, has just announced today a $1.6 million investment in Drishtee.Com, a rural Information...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on September 20, 2006 04:50 PM
World Development Report 2007
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The World Development Report 2007 from the World Bank has just come out. This year’s main theme is youth, considered as people between the ages of 12 to 24. It goes...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on September 19, 2006 02:04 PM
Nobel Peace Laureates' conversations at the Peacemaker's Season
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The Peacemaker season the BBC World is currently having from the 2nd September to 1st October is a must see. It deals with “conflict resolution, investigating the causes, ramifications and possible...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on September 13, 2006 12:23 PM
24 Companies added to the FTSE4Good Index Series
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The FTSE4Good Index Series, a benchmark and tradable index for socially responsible investors, today confirms the results of their September review. 24 companies have been newly added, having met the index...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on September 7, 2006 05:16 PM
2/3 of African countries implemented at least one pro-business reform over the past year
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Tanzania and Ghana lead the way in African reforms this year, according to the latest "Doing Business Report" . Georgia, Romania and Mexico do so globally. South Africa, Mauritius and Namibia...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on September 6, 2006 04:53 PM
August’s Update
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management It has been a long summer break at Instituto de Empresa, thus reducing the blog activity this month. We are back on track and looking forward on continuing this conversation. I...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on August 31, 2006 04:47 PM
Gates Foundation donates $287m for AIDS vaccine research
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The Gates foundation has pledged € 228 million to 16 research projects in 19 countries which are intended to accelerate the research on a vaccine for the HIV/Aids virus. The grant...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on July 20, 2006 03:04 PM
Fair Trade Sales of more than $1.38 Billion in 2005
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Global sales of Fair trade products have reached € 1.1 billion in 2005, which represents an increase of 37% over the previous year. According to Fairtrade, all product lines expanded their...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on July 19, 2006 11:29 AM
UNICEF and FC Barcelona Unite for Children; doing good by doing well
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management FC Barcelona has made an impressive long term strategic decision which is intended to position and strengthen their brand as “more than a club”, through a global agreement with UNICEF. When...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on July 17, 2006 12:02 PM
Gender Diversity discussed at the Corporate Responsibility Tribune
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management On Wednesday, July 12th, it was published at Expansion the 3rd “Corporate Responsibility Tribune” which in this case dealt with managing gender diversity. This tribune is a joint initiative by Instituto...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on July 13, 2006 08:04 PM
The Impact of mobile phones in Africa
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management According to a recent article by the Washington Post on how for poor, cellphones bridge the digitlal divide, there are about 152 million cell phone users in Africa, up from 63...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on July 12, 2006 11:53 AM
Save the Children reports delays from the European Commission in distributing aid
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management According to the Financial Times, The European Commission, which by the way is the world’s second largest aid donor, will come under fire by Save the Children tomorrow Wednesday for its...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on July 11, 2006 05:19 PM
TED Talks
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management TED (Technology Entertainment Design) “Hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses”, an annual event which gathers world renown speakers and thinkers has...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on June 28, 2006 06:25 PM
Jeffrey D. Sachs on Sustainable Development
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management “We actually have within our ability, because of the power of technology and because of the phenomenal wealth that exists in the world, an opportunity that is remarkable and that, I...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on June 19, 2006 10:36 AM
There is great potential for Latin Ameria and the Caribbean - Bill Clinton
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Latin America should carry out microeconomic reforms to clear the path for more poor people to join the middle class, instead of locking itself in a debate over fiscal discipline and...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on June 15, 2006 07:06 PM
FT Business Report on Responsible Business
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The Financial Times has just issued an excellent report on Responsible Business which looks at the following themes: ● Fair trade: The problems consumers have with the label ● Marketing: Why...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on June 14, 2006 08:01 PM
Social Entrepreneurship with Clean Water for all
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Belu is our newest example of a Social Enterprise, which handles the triple bottom line by being a profitable business which offers a differentiated and competitive product, while caring for the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on June 12, 2006 01:08 PM
IDB Initiative to Reach those at the Base of the Economic Pyramid
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The Inter-American Development Bank has an initiative called Building Opportunity for the Majority which focuses on the Bottom of the Pyramid, seeing the people who live in this region as what...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on June 7, 2006 10:56 AM
"El partenariado entre empresas y ONG: Un aprendizaje mutuo"
Centro PwC - IE de Responsabilidad Corporativa y AEDME-Círculo de Responsabilidad Social Fecha: 19.06.06 Horario : 18:30 h Lugar: Maria de Molina 11, Madrid. Aula Magna del Instituto de Empresa La nueva tendencia de las empresas de ser más...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on June 5, 2006 09:50 AM
Development through wealth creation - The 100 Top Companies from Rapidly Developing Economies
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management According to the Boston Consulting Group, 100 top companies from rapidly developing economies are changing the World. These are a group of emerging challengers that are becoming important players in both...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 31, 2006 09:46 AM
Novartis does R&D on Malaria through a Public Private Partnership (PPP)
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) will initiate research on malaria, which together with HIV/AIDS and TB is one of the top three killer diseases in tropical countries. "With 250...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 26, 2006 12:00 AM
The Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Egypt
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Laila Iskandar has won the The Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Egypt, prize awarded by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The innovation of CID’s project consists on helping communities...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 25, 2006 12:10 PM
1st European-Ibero American Congress on Corporate Responsibility
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The Club de Excelencia en Sostenibilidad, along with the Instituto de Empresa through the Sumaq Alliance, made up of seven of the top business schools in Latin America, have joined forces...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 24, 2006 12:01 AM
GBC AWARDS for BUSINESS EXCELLENCE 2006
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The Global Business Coalition (GBC) on HIV/AIDS, an alliance of 212 multinationals destined to support the corporate commitment against HIV/AIDS, has just given the GBC Awards for Business Excellence. These awards,...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 22, 2006 12:30 PM
The New York Times goes green!
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The New York Times has gone green on their business section. They cover a broad range of news on sustainability, going from The Truth, Al gore's initiative on climate change and...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 18, 2006 10:19 AM
Job Opening - Associate Director, Research and Advocacy
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management SustainAbility is looking for an Associate Director who will be a "Core Team member supporting senior management in development and delivery of the company’s research and advocacy (R&A) strategy. The AD...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 17, 2006 09:50 AM
No News Today
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management What is it like to have Bono be the CEO of The Independent for one day? Well, how about a "Now News Today" initiative. Then, bring the attention to the recurrently...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 16, 2006 09:30 AM
The 2006 World Business Awards on the Millenium Development Goals
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Ney York, May 10th, 2006. Organized by ICC in association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), the awards recognize the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 12, 2006 04:32 PM
FTSE joins UNEP Principles for Responsible Investment
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management FTSE signs at Paris the UNEP Principles for Responsible Investment. More than $4 trillion in assets have signed the Principles. FTSE has committed to providing tools and services for responsible investment,...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 12, 2006 04:00 PM
Corporate Responsibility Education
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Ethical Corporation, in association with EABIS, has just published a review of corporate responsibility education. “Companies today are operating in a global business environment perhaps more complex and demanding than at...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 12, 2006 11:21 AM
$5 Million Awarded to the 2006 Development Marketplace Winners
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The 2006 Global Development Marketplace competition awarded a total of US$5 million for the best ideas for providing clean water, sanitation and energy services for the poor in developing countries. 118...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 10, 2006 10:39 AM
Clean Energy Index launched by NASDAQ and Clean Edge
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management "The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ) and Clean Edge, Inc. have announced plans to launch the NASDAQ® Clean Edge® U.S. Index, an innovative and powerful tool for clean-energy investing. NASDAQ will...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 10, 2006 09:55 AM
An Inconvenient Truth
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management “Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert the major catastrophe that could send our...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 8, 2006 12:12 PM
The 2006 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The Top 50 U.S. companies for Diversity have been selected. According to DiversityInc. , In human capital, retention across all racial/ethnic/gender categories was evaluated, looking for consistency that proves a company...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 5, 2006 12:16 PM
Bill & Melinda Gates win the Prince of Asturias Award
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Bill Gates and his wife Melinda were Thursday May 4th awarded with Spain's Prince of Asturias Award in the category of international cooperation. The jury described their efforts and contribution to...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 5, 2006 09:48 AM
Social Entrepreneurship at Sumaq Business Schools
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The 1st Sumaq meeting on Social Entrepreneurship took place May 3rd, 2006. The main objective of the meeting was related to program exchange as well as continuing the conversation in regards...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 4, 2006 04:24 PM
International Funds Worth $4 Trillion Now Endorse UN Principles for Responsible Investment
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management At Paris, the heads of 18 major institutional investors from nine countries, representing more than $2 trillion in assets, will sign up to the Principles. They join a group of 32...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on May 3, 2006 10:28 AM
The 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2006
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2006 have been announced today. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) has been ranked No. 1 Now in its 7th year, the "100 Best...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 27, 2006 04:36 PM
UN Secretary-General Launches 'Principles for Responsible Investment' Backed by World's Largest Investors
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management (CSRwire) New York – “In a historic development for global financial markets, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan was today joined by a group of the world’s largest institutional investors at the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 27, 2006 12:30 PM
Vote Now for 2006 Commitment to Development Award
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The 2006 Commitment to Development Award honors an individual or organization from the rich world who has made a significant contribution to changing attitudes and policies towards the developing world. It...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 25, 2006 09:44 AM
FT - Sustainable Banking Awards
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management Financial Times, together with the International Finance Corporation are hosting the Sustainable Banking Awards. The award has been created in order to recognise banks that have shown leadership and innovation in...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 24, 2006 11:02 AM
ONE - MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management “Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.” Nelson Mandela The white band has become...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 20, 2006 10:08 AM
Premios de investigación social 2006
Max Oliva, Subdirector de Social Impact Management, Instituto de Empresa Caja Madrid, a través de su obra social, convoca este premio apoyando investigaciones con conclusiones aplicables. Este premio tiene como uno de sus objetivos el fomentar la investigación social y...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 18, 2006 01:02 PM
PR News Announces Finalists in Corporate Social Responsibility Awards
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The Coca-Cola Company, Verizon Communications, Ford Motor Co., Gap Inc. and DaimlerChrysler AG are candidates of the 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. It is offered by PR News, which in their...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 13, 2006 12:00 AM
Job Openings: Center for Global Development
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management There are job postings on the Center for Global Development. We include three, but you can regularly visit their site. Publications Associate The Center seeks a publications manager who is knowledgeable...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 12, 2006 04:51 PM
El Rol del Consejo en la Responsabilidad Corporativa
Max Oliva, Subdirector de Social Impact Management, Instituto de Empresa "La Responsabilidad Corporativa es estratégica y depende del consejo y de toda la organización" El Centro PwC-IE de Responsabilidad Corporativa, junto con Expansión, organizó el primer debate sobre el papel...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 7, 2006 11:40 AM
When Social Issues Become Strategic
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The McKinsey Quarterly has just Published an article which analyzes these issues, arguing that executives ignore socio-political debates at their own peril. A majority of the executives they have surveyed acknowledge...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 6, 2006 12:41 PM
April Upcoming Events
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The World Economic Forum, The World Bank and United Nations are hosting events this month which will discuss leveraging the currently improved economic conditions of Latin America; important changes in the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 5, 2006 11:56 AM
Making Europe a Pole of Excellence on CSR
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The European Commission has just published (March 22nd, 2006) a communication on CSR entitled: “Implementing the Partnership for Growth and Jobs: Making Europe a pole of excellence on CSR”. It is...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 4, 2006 01:26 PM
The 2006 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The 2006 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship took place on March 29-31st, 2006. Conferences with speakers such as Al Gore, Muhammad Yunus, Ian Goldin and many others as well as...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 4, 2006 01:21 PM
"The World Challenge" Contest
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The BBC World and Newsweek, in association with Shell, are organizing for second straight year a contest entitled “The World Challenge”. This contest focuses on projects which “make a real difference...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 3, 2006 06:27 PM
“The Emergence of Social Entrepreneurship: Social Impact as a Performance Measure”
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The conference on “The Emergence of Social Entrepreneurship: Social Impact as a Performance Measure” took place at Instituto de Empresa on March 16th, 2006. It was conducted by Pamela Hartigan, Managing...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 3, 2006 05:38 PM
The Business of Giving
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The Economist has recently issued a survey of wealth and philanthropy which builds up on the idea of how this is increasingly being a concern to business men and how all...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 3, 2006 05:19 PM
More than 640,000 Senior Managers needed in the Nonprofit sector by 2016
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management At least that is according to The Bridgespan Group’s recent study of the leadership requirements of nonprofits with revenues greater than $250,000 (excluding hospitals and institutions of higher education). Tom Tierney,...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 3, 2006 05:13 PM
What are business executives thinking in regards to Corporate Responsibility?
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The McKinsey Quarterly conducted a survey in December 2005 which had the participation of more than 4,200 executives in 116 countries. “Unquestionably, the global business community has embraced the idea that...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 3, 2006 05:10 PM
Ashoka: innovators for the Public
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management (CSRwire) Ashoka: Innovators for the Public announced on March 3rd the release of its new Social Entrepreneurship Series on Google's latest video service, Google Video Store. The Series, produced in partnership...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 3, 2006 04:56 PM
Corporate Responsibiliy Community
Max Oliva, Associate Director of IE's Social Impact Management The social sector is approaching a tipping point. Business Schools’ involvement in social issues range from corporate responsibility and social entrepreneurship, to social impact management, going through the bottom of the...
Posted in Corporate Responsibility Weblog on April 3, 2006 04:49 PM