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Leveraging Deficits: How the Best Corporate Citizens drove more effective cross-sector collaboration during the Great Recession
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100 Best 2009 Methodology & Penalty Box
Submitted by Danielle on Fri, 2009-03-20 14:52.On Oct. 30, 2008, 27 practitioners—corporate members of the CRO Association—gathered in Chicago to openly debate the methodology for the 10th Annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List®. Everyone emerged a little unhappy. In other words, it was an ideal outcome.
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Submitted by Danielle on Fri, 2009-03-13 19:33. Read More...100 Best Corporate Citizens 2009—Full Story
Submitted by Danielle on Thu, 2009-03-05 18:16.When someone next asks you to define “corporate transparency,” show them this:
The 10th Annual CRO 100 Best Corporate Citizens List (pdf)
Why? Three reasons. First, CRO’s 10th annual 100 Best List (compiled by IW Financial and edited by CRO) is completely based on publicly available information. That means the list’s sources are public places accessible to anyone researching Russell 1000® companies—non-secure websites, government and regulatory sources, investment publications and NGO databases.
Second, the methodology used to compile this year’s 100 Best list was debated and voted on in open session by 27 leading corporate responsibility practitioners representing nine major industry segments October 2008 at the CRO Conference in Chicago.
And lastly, for the first time ever, each listed company was asked to review the underlying data in advance of this publication to make sure no publicly available citation was overlooked. Of the 1,011 data edit requests we got back from the listees, 28.3 percent were validated and resulted in data changes. The result? Our most transparent 100 Best list.
100 Best Corporate Citizens Repeat Performers
Submitted by Danielle on Tue, 2008-02-19 21:16.The following companies have been on the 100 Best Corporate Citizens list for all nine years:
- Intel Corp.
- Starbucks Coffee Co.
- Cisco Systems Inc.
In the Penalty Box
Submitted by Danielle on Tue, 2008-02-19 21:08.As we have done in the past, CRO did a final review of companies mathematically qualified for 100 Best 2008 and took scandals into consideration. For the first time, this year we are disclosing the reasons behind our scandal analysis. As a result of our scandal review, we put the companies below in the Penalty Box. They were involved in a recent (during the past three years) major public scandal (involving a significant government- or regulator-imposed fine; major government-initiated lawsuit; admission of guilt or conviction; major corporate governance lapse; or other comparable infraction).
Methodology: Transparency, Policy, Performance Weighed Heavily in the Rankings
Submitted by Danielle on Tue, 2008-02-19 20:58.Climate Change, Environment did much to settle scores
In determining CRO’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008, CRO evolved the 9-year-old process in four significant ways.
100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008
Submitted by Danielle on Tue, 2008-02-19 20:33.This list—CRO’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008—matters.
If you think for a minute that it doesn’t, then get on the phone or sit upright at your computer to listen to or read some of the phone calls and e-mails CRO magazine received from irate companies that found themselves MIA from the list or lower in the rankings than they would have liked.
Somewhere in a corporate boardroom or in the compliance officer’s suite, rest assured that an Excel wizard is analyzing the category ranks and studying the algorithm, trying to figure out what Intel (No. 1) did right in Environment or Climate Change, or why a competitor ascended or nosedived this year in the ordering.