The Challenge for Business and Society : From Risk to Reward

Intro -- The Challenge for Business and Society -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder -- Past Is Prologue: The History of Corporate Responsibility -- Where We Are Today -- The Future Is in Our Hands-Don't Blow It -- Chapter 1 The Good, Bad, and Ugly: A History of Corporate Behavior -- Another Way of Proceeding -- Public-Private Partnership Before the Phrase Was Coined -- Discrimination and Jobs Are the Same Issue -- Gender Equality -- Environmental Leadership -- Supply Chain Practices -- Lessons Learned and Strategies Used -- Can We Intelligently Regulate Business? -- Can Ethics Be Taught? -- The Recent Past -- Chapter 2 Past Is Prologue, but Today Is What Matters -- Best Practices in Corporate Responsibility -- Corporate Responsibility and Education -- The Background on School Reform -- P-TECH: Reinventing High Schools -- Changing Federal Policy -- Walking and Chewing Gum at the Same Time -- Student Stories -- Results -- Engaging the Company over the Long Term -- Lessons Learned -- IBM Launches Teacher Advisor with Watson -- The Skills Crisis Goes Far Beyond the Entry Level -- Citizen Diplomacy -- JPMorgan Chase: A Company's Values Are at the Core of Its Actions -- Starbucks -- American Express -- The Food Industry -- Failures in Corporate Citizenship -- Private-Sector Leadership in the Public and Volunteer Sectors -- Lessons to Be Learned, and Moving Forward -- Chapter 3 The Future -- Leadership: We Need Leaders to Lead -- Ethics and Community Service: A Culture of Ethics and Service Needs to Be Reinforced and Expanded -- Key Problems Facing Society Today and How They Can Be Addressed -- Critical Issues That Need a New Focus: Education and Jobs -- Four Ideas That Will Boost Education Achievement -- The Teaching Crisis -- Development of Schools and Education as a Makerspace