CSR, Procrastination & Women in Business

I had a slightly  challenging week last week as I had several one to one appointments that challenged my information retrieval skills but it is fascinating to see the different work you are all doing and to try to help you achieve your research goals. On to news and articles that were interesting this week.

Harvard Business Review has an interesting blog post on CEOs and Corporate Social Responsibility, focusing on Apple's CEO's decision to tell climate change deniers not to invest in his business. This blog also looks more widely at the ethical and business case for investing in green technologies and renewable energy. Staying with a 'green' theme, they have been several pieces on air pollution in the last week. China has declared 'war' on air pollution and is pushing forward with a controversial environmental tax in an effort to improve air quality. Paris is also struggling with air pollution and has banned cars from the city centre. Only cars with an odd number on the license plate will be allowed to run on some days and only even numbers on others. They have also made public transport free for several days to encourage commuters out of their cars. Looking at green issues from a different angle, this article looks at the problems facing Mongolia as business and mining places growing demands on limited water stock, this is especially important given rare earth minerals used in smart phones have been found in Mongolia.

Turning to the work place more generally., this discussion between Sheryl Sandberg and Anna Maria Chavez on the use of the word 'bossy' and women in the work place is fascinating. Sandberg's book Lean In is also well worth a read for women in business. The FT.com also has an interesting article about why we seebosses as parents and what the potential pitfalls of this are. Finally two articles taking very different perspectives on procrastination. This one, from the Guardian, talks about 10 steps to end procrastination and may well be useful when you have that essay deadline or exam looming. This article from ThePsychologist, takes a very different tack discussing the advantages of procrastination and how to make it more useful. So pick your approach and don't forget to come to ReWise if you want any help in the build up to exams.