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Kotler and Levy, in their book, Corporate Social Responsibility define corporate social responsibility as "a commitment to improve community well-being through discretionary business practices and contributions of corporate resources". Some of the benefits of being socially responsible include (a) enhanced company and brand image (b) easier to attract and retain employees (c) increased market share (d) lower operating costs and (e) easier to attract investors.

Nike placing a big focus environmental sustainability.

Glad to see that Nike has changed its ways to show much more coporate responsibility.

This is an 8 page are article about what we should be doing ethically to prevent global warming

Very good essay, Marcus. Interesting angle on the ethics of inaction, and a very good analysis of the issue from a 'divine command' perspective.

It's true, when it comes to global warming, we always think it's someone else's responsibility to fix what we've destroyed.

This article talks about how to balance the rights and responsibilities of the world

If companies just take the time to understand what corporate social responsibility is, they will realize it is not that complicated and will actually benefit your company dramatically.

This goes along with our video's for this week. It asks a good question "Does Battlefield 3's realism bring with it responsibility? Should developers like DICE provide an ethically balanced experience?"

Are you capable to take on more responsibilities at your job? Some questions to ask yourself before you do.

One unhappy customer will do more damage to your reputation than ten happy ones will help it

Mcdonald's marketing towards children under attack.

What would you do? With the weather change this weekend, I noticed a few accidents on the freeway.

UNHEALTHY I would think!!

What do you think are the significant moral issues here, Taylor? Is Paterno morally responsible for his inaction?

I think that whenever a well is dug or drilled, especially for oil, then calculations need to be checked, double checked, triple checked, and maybe even quadruple checked before any "earth" is moved.

September 24, 2011 -- Updated 1125 GMT (1925 HKT) (CNN) -- The head of Swiss banking giant UBS has resigned in the wake of a $2.3 billion loss in unauthorized trading, the bank announced Saturday. Chief executive Oswald J. Gruebel is stepping down immediately, and an interim CEO has been appointed, the bank said in a statement.

Professional ethics in action. Boss realizes he is only as good as his people under him and when the mess up, he takes responsibility.

Lawmakers received few responses from many questions that were asked of these Solyndra Executives. This is a very interesting video.

When Social Responsibility is really a part of the character of the company - rather than one of the many things a company does that stakeholders expect - it becomes an organic part of the story of who the company is, what it stands for.

This article is about the SEC holding more people responsible for the wrong doings during the economic crisis. It talks about the careless things done with investor's money.

Drug companies sponsoring human trials of possible new medications have ethical responsibilities to study participants and to science to disclose the results of their clinical research -- even when product development is no longer being pursued. Maybe this will lead to more improvements in modern medicine.

This article talks about the expansion of morals in businesses.

Sustainability Reporting for companies has grown over the last decade by a substantial amount. The reason for this is it leads to economic and social behaviors increasing in their business.