Still Don’t Think CSR is Good for Business? Please Read On

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has long been at the core of regional growth. But today it is more essential than ever, business leader David L. Cohen, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for Comcast Corporation, told a roomful of top business executives recently at the Satell Institute’s Fall CEO Conference.

Does an Aspirational City Matter for Business?

Matt Cabrey recently interviewed Ed Satell, CEO of the Satell Institute, for Growing Greater Philadelphia on 1210 WPHT to discuss Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In this short, 16-minute interview, they discuss the importance of an aspirational city for business and the community and how the Satell Institute is providing a gateway for leaders to take action. They also dive into the role of for-profit and nonprofit partnerships in the success of a city and the essential characteristics that differentiate the Institute.

Financial Advisory Firm CEO Says CSR Starts at the Top

Bruce Kardon, CEO of Conservest Capital Advisors, believes leadership by example counts. For Kardon, this principle is especially true when it comes to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). That’s why he joined other corporate and foundation leaders as a member of the Satell Institute, a leader in the CSR space.

Corporate Social Responsibility Now Recognized as One of 5 Key Components of Best Run Companies

The Wall Street Journal’s recent report on leadership described the takeaways of the 2018 Management Top 250, a guide to the most effectively managed companies based on the principles of Peter Drucker, the father of modern business philosophy and practice. The researchers at the highly regarded Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker Institute conducted the study and compiled the results.

Why Business/ Nonprofit Partnerships Produce Big Win – Wins for Businesses and the Community

Probably the most Important component of Corporate Social Responsibility is business / nonprofit cooperative partnerships that benefit a community. Businesses vitally need healthy growing communities to expand. Nonprofits play an extraordinary role in making communities more attractive to live in, because all successful nonprofits bring a needed problem-solving mission to some aspect that improves the quality of life and draws talent to live there. In a real sense, those missions are the lifeblood of a community which greatly impacts the opportunity for business success in the region.

“I Don’t Choose the Causes I Support; They Choose Me.” How the President of a Top Engineering Company Turned His Business Acumen into a 20-Year CSR Career

Tom Caramanico has been involved with corporate social responsibility (CSR) for so long, it wasn’t even called that when he got started. He’s been the President of McCormick Taylor, Inc., an engineering company, since 1988 and built it from around 20 employees to its current size of nearly 500 employees in 19 offices across nine states. Due to Caramanico’s success in business, he became a fixture on nonprofit boards and his family has been influential in causes ranging from historical preservation to international education. But when he got started, all he wanted to do was help.

5 Unique Membership Benefits of the Satell Institute; Top Business Leaders Convene at the October 2018 CEO Conference

In a room packed with CEOs from across the region last Thursday, Ed Satell took the podium and began his opening remarks with a historical anecdote:
“In the first year of President Kennedy’s term in 1961, he invited a group of the country’s most talented professionals to have dinner together at the White House. President Kennedy observed, ‘This may be the greatest collection of minds ever to have assembled for dinner at the White House…except for when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone.’ On a similar note, gathered here this morning might be the most talented group of CEOs to ever have breakfast together in this historic neighborhood since George Washington had breakfast a few blocks away from here with fellow Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, and helped change the world for the better.”

President of the Number 1 Small Think Tank in the World Explains the Evolution of the Satell Institute, CSR & Its Importance

Alan Luxenberg is President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), a think tank devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests. Think tanks like the FPRI are crucial for establishing an informed citizenry in our country, and the concept for the Satell Institute was derived from the mixture of a think tank’s capacity to educate and Ed Satell’s own vision of promoting action – i.e. a “do” tank. We spoke with Alan about this genesis and how the Satell Institute has evolved over the years.

CEO of Nonprofit Believes in Supporting CSR Because “Institutions Don’t Have Needs; People Have Needs”

Doug Tieman, A FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER OF THE SATELL INSTITUTE, is the President & CEO of the Caron Foundation, a nonprofit organization that operates drug and alcohol residential treatment centers. He’s also a bestselling author whose book “Flying Over The Pigpen: Leadership Lessons From Growing Up On The Farm” won praise from business leaders across the world and landed him on major newsprograms and talk shows.

The organization he’s headed since 1995 raises more money for substance abuse research, training and innovation to help those with addiction issues than any other similar nonprofit in the country – $15 million last year alone. how do they do it? We spoke with Doug to find out.