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...their new book, Multi-nationals in their Communities, two British academics look at well-run CSR projects and how they help the communities where they operate. Ian W. Jones, a management lecturer at Oxford University, and Michael G. Pollitt, a reader in business economics at Cambridge University, co-direct the Ethics, Regulation and Globalisation project at Cambridge's Centre for Business Research. Time talked to them about the challenges and benefits of good corporate citizenship...
...TIME: Let's start with an example of a corporate citizenship program that works well. Pollitt: One we found very impressive was a project run by the large mining company Anglo American in South Africa. They set up a venture-capital fund for local black entrepreneurs who were setting up small businesses. Mainly these businesses were aimed at supplying services and goods to Anglo American mines. This project not only provided financing, it gave training. It also provided access to the purchasing managers of a major multinational. So, it was an excellent project which helped local communities and leveraged...
...woman as earth mother, woman as unsung guardian of all the small rituals that knit together a family and a community, woman as beneath, above or beyond such manly concerns as law, reason, abstract ideals—these images are as old as time,” wrote Katha Pollitt, a noted feminist...
...Katha Pollitt is an author and a columnist for the Nation
...Since I am the more organized partner of my marriage I have found it to be a wonderful tool in helping my wife mend her sometimes messy ways." Alas, the great ones really are taken.) Alluding to, among other chapters, Mendelson's take on "Peaceful Coexistence with Microbes," Katha Pollitt complained in the Nation that "this is domesticity as paranoia--Oh, no, a germ...