With rising social consciousness about decent wages and good working conditions, fair trade certification is no longer an expensive fad.
Social Sector
Opportunity to learn, quality of work-life and the ephemeral promise of meaningful work score big with Gen Y workers in India, according to a just released global report.
The deployment of 3G technology promises to transform the $35-billion healthcare sector in the country, enabling doctors to view images sent from remote locations and offering real time treatment solutions.
Women’s participation on company boards is being recognised as a business issue rather than a gender issue by global think tanks as well as Indian thought leaders.
Some Indian companies are not only engaging with their supply chains to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS and promote safe sexual behaviour, but also offering treatment to the infected.
The health of employees is at a premium today. The bottomline of businesses is being increasingly determined by the preventive healthcare programmes that companies provide to their staff at the workplace.
If London is emerging as a leading ethical fashion centre in the world, its partly due to the fact that the citys fashion stores are able to source fairtrade products from India.
Unreached. Unbanked. Unelectrified. Unserved. These are the new keywords for business leaders, who are working overtime to tap into the poor consumer market in a win-win deal for businesses as well as the poor.
Stuart L Hart builds brick by brick the case for sustainable enterprises in his revised edition of Capitalism at the Crossroads, drawing from his BoP initiative.
Industry leaders like YC Deveshwar, Subodh Bhargava and Arun Maira discuss how sustainability challenges can be converted into business opportunities, beginning with the bottom of the pyramid (BoP).