Do they also serve?

Lea King is a manager (marketing globalisation) and volunteer at Cisco. A Chinese national, she finds India a land of opportunities.

A light for a school

School was till daylight faded for 12-year-old Shanti studying in a village school in Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh.

When she refuses to stoop

From being a homemaker and a mother to my children, I had to forcefully become the earning member.

Nisha was barely three when an accident claimed her parents’ lives. All she could understand was that her parents would never come back again and that she and her sister Poonam, five then, will be staying with their grandparents henceforth.

A call for collective efforts

To any corporate, social responsibility must be a coherent part of its existence. A corporate is an institution that is meant to serve society with its products and services.

Faith to global warming’s rescue

Like shrinking ice caps, resistance among American Christians to address the effects of global warning is diminishing, creating a once-unlikely connection between the scientific and the spiritual, representatives of national and local religious organisations said.

For industry’s better half

Women in the workforce need special benefits. Or do they? The argument for and against it will continue for a long time to come.

On a sustainable path to success

Today, a business organisation’s sustainability is linked to its ability to address sustainable development of the people and communities it works with and the environment in which it operates.

Changing the family occupation

It is a family that has been carrying night soil for as long as it can remember. Every generation saw itself wake up to look forward to the dreary job of cleaning toilets for a living.

A hedge fund and its non-profit twin

Christopher Cooper-Hohn and his wife, Jamie, follow a simple economic formula: He makes money, and she gives it away.

'Corporates must serve society'

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not new to the Lalbhai Group. Late Kasturbhai Lalbhai, founder of the Lalbhai Group laid the foundation for the CSR activities that the company is carrying out now.

Nothing fishy about it

Venturing to sea in tiny boats powered only by sails, fishermen in this village on Haiti’s western shore struggled for generations through stormy seas and windless days to earn their keep.

In the spirit of the game

A Donda Raju, Rajib Basumatary and Ravindhar Hembram were nobody till they became the cadets of an academy, which not many outside Jamshedpur knew about.

Business’ first rule is to understand environment

The 16th century industrial revolutions in England and the United States transformed the world by providing the masses with jobs and goods to consume.

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