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A Business Case for CSR
In response to the Wall Street Journal article “The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility”, Catalyst has released its latest publication establishing a solid case for CSR.
Based upon historical and recent management literature, as well as publicly available articles, journals, research and data, we illustrate that not only does CSR serve as a robust and effective management strategy, but that it is also uniquely positioned to help companies create shared value between business and society. We also show that, when implemented efficiently, it enables innovation, improves cost reduction and risk mitigation, enhances competitive advantage and strengthens reputation.
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How You Can Change the World
The world needs different kinds of heroes. Social entrepreneurs, social ventures, multinational corporations, non-profit organizations and government agencies are all collaborating to innovate new models of sustainable business and to solve some of the world's most challenging problems. Not sure where to start? Catalyst can offer some suggestions.
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What is Catalyst?
Catalyst is an innovation company for social good. We leverage corporate social responsibility to maximize social impact while cultivating brand equity, competitive advantage and stakeholder engagement.
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About Inspired-Catalyst.com
Catalyst works with companies to create and improve their corporate social responsibility strategy to increase opportunities for both innovation and social impact. We also provide a necessary linkage between social enterprise and the private sector. We advise social ventures in aligning and engaging with multinational companies through their corporate citizenship programs. To this end, Catalyst intends to use Inspired-Catalyst.com to provoke discussion and analysis of key trends and issues around CSR to draw more participants to this field and to promote learning around critical social and development issues.
We bring innovative ideas and diverse networks of like-minded people together to address development challenges. We ignite inspired ideation between academia, government agencies, multinational companies and social entrepreneurs that seek to find sustainable solutions to issues around poverty, health and education that affect the basic human rights of marginalized populations. We help elevate thinking to resolve strategic challenges and launch innovation that leads to social transformation.