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Corporate responsibility

Corporate responsibility (CR) is a strategic business approach that reconciles economic with social and ecological success. Companies expect CR to remain important and even gain relevance in the years ahead. We have developed and successfully implemented a set of ready-to-implement tools that help make the most of a company's CR activities.

IN BRIEF

Companies today face relentless pressure to grow their markets and remain competitive. At the same time, how they conduct their business is scrutinized like never before from a large and growing stakeholder base. Luckily, doing good by the environment and society should and can bring financial return. Rather than seeing corporate responsibility as an unproductive cost or resource burden, we believe that it can be a source of opportunity.

Yet companies still encounter difficulties when embedding corporate responsibility into their daily operations or even aligning it with their core business. This is where our Practice Group Corporate Responsibility can help. We approach all projects from a strategic perspective, directly linking all aspects of corporate responsibility to the company‘s top and bottom line. In our experience, corporate responsibility must be a driver of profitable growth.

We have broad experience in this field and have developed a strategic approach that makes social and environmental responsibility work for companies. Moreover, we hold a repertoire of ready-to-implement tools.

OUR EXPERTS

Björn Bloching

Partner

Hamburg office, Germany
phone: +49 40 37631-4446
e-mail

 
Bertrand Baret

Partner

Paris office, France
phone: +33 1 53670-909
e-mail

 
Carolin Griese-Michels
Carolin Griese-Michels

Principal

Hamburg office, Germany
phone: +49 40 37631-4324
e-mail

 
Takashi Hirai

Partner

Tokyo office, Japan
phone: +81 3 35876-660
e-mail

 
Uwe Kumm

Partner

Moscow office, Russia
phone: +49 30 39927-3534
e-mail

 
Stefan Schaible

Partner

Hamburg office, Germany
phone: +49 40 37631-4326
e-mail

 

FURTHER READING

Corporate responsibility

Brochure by Burkhard Schwenker, Björn Bloching, 2007

Corporate responsibility has moved from the fringes of the business world to the top of the agenda. Stakeholders expect companies to do good by the environment and society while generating profits. In our new brochure we highlight a number of approaches and tools to help companies turn corporate responsibility into a driver of business success …  >>

 
CSR champions

Roland Berger News, March, 2007

ABN Amro is a global leader in the financial services sector. Geberit is Europe's market leader in sanitary technology. Two very different businesses, with one thing in common: each shows outstanding commitment to corporate social responsibility. …  >>

 
think: act CONTENT no. 11

edit think: act CONTENT no. 11, 2006

You can earn money by doing good deeds. Read about profitable corporate responsibility in this issue of think: act CONTENT …  (PDF, 136 KB)

 
Corporate responsibility

Study by Björn Bloching; Frauke Windmüller; Dorit Winkler, 2006

Corporate Responsibility is a strategic business approach that reconciles economic with social and ecological success. Therefore the study focuses on the question how to incorporate CR succesfully into supplier-customer relationships. …  >>