The Executive's Guide to 21st Century Corporate Citizenship: How Your Company Can Win the Battle for Reputation and Impact, Hardcover

The Executive's Guide to 21st Century Corporate Citizenship is a succinct handbook that provides senior managers with everything they need to understand how corporate citizenship builds reputation, delivers value to the bottom line, and mobilizes an organization's employees and customers. It shows how integrating sustainability and social impact to improve your operating context can also improve your company's competitive position, and steers readers through the field of corporate citizenship to provide actionable insights based on empirical research. The book features tools that will prove valuable for every business person thinking about how to maximize business and social value, while the concepts addressed in the book are essential for executives leading manufacturing B2B or B2C companies that are managing complex supply chains, integrated operations, and corporate reputation. This book provides a major update on how to 'do' corporate citizenship and will help you win the reputation battle and deliver value to society while creating the most successful business possible in today's competitive landscape.

About the Author:

Dave Stangis is Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, and Chief Sustainability Officer of Campbell Soup Company. He leads Campbell's CSR, Sustainable Agriculture, and Operational Sustainability strategies and previously served as VP, Public Affairs and President of the Campbell Soup Foundation from 2011 to 2016. Prior to Campbell, Dave created and led the corporate responsibility function at Intel. Dave has led two Fortune 500 organizations in different sectors into the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations, and the 100 Best Corporate Citizens List. He has twice been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by Ethisphere Magazine. Katherine Valvoda Smith is executive director of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (BCCCC), and part-time faculty at the Carroll School of Management where she teaches 'Business in Society'. As its executive director, she leads the research, education, partnership, and program strategies of BCCCC. Katherine has worked with public private partnerships and joint research projects for more than 20 years over the course of her career and has held appointments at Brown University, the University of Massachusetts where she served also as COO of its Foundation with more than $700 million under management.