LIVE BLOG – BSR Conference: Corporate Social Responsibility & Public Policy: Best Practices

This two-hour working session will probe the challenge of how business is exercising influence in the public policy arena. The new agenda for business’ involvement focuses on what can be contributed and how engagement drives responsibility. What is the need and role for business in public policy, what are your stakeholder expectations, and what opportunities are available to shape public policy and engage with policymakers? This session will present specific opportunities that call for collaborative solutions for companies. Using real case studies, we will provide the framework for a discussion about transparency, internal alignment, communications and campaigns, political contributions, and how to align short-term business objectives with long-term societal objectives.

Scheduled Speaker(s): Richard Feinberg Arvin Ganesan Jonathan Jacoby John Viera Kara Hartnett Hurst Virgilio Levaggi Vegagies.

LIVE BLOG – BSR Conference: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Poverty: 3pm – 4pm PST

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The global financial crisis has sent shock waves through main streets and high streets around the world. It also has had a serious impact on the world’s poorest people. This one-hour conversation with Harvard Kennedy School’s Beth Jenkins, will focus on the role companies play in poverty alleviation and development – generating economic multipliers through routine business activity, doing business with the poor (BOP or inclusive business), investing in human capital development and local institution-building, and participating in public policy dialogue with government. The discussion will cover how corporate engagement in each of these activities is changing as a result of the financial crisis.

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