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Big players beware! Corporate Social Responsibility, business ethics social license to operate.

Corporate Social Responsibility, business ethics social license to operate It doesn’t matter if you sell cars, mortgages, cruises, or oil. Neither it does matter if your Customer Experience NPS had stellar values up to «yesterday»! And finally it does not matter if your industry is a “one of a kind”, or you are the “largest”, the “best”, etc. If the images projected by the media or the news about your latest scandal (of any kind) are vivid enough to stir…

The latent crisis of Mine Wastewater and Colorado State of Emergency

crisis of Mine Wastewater and Colorado State of Emergency On August 10, 2015 at Gold King Mine near Durango, Colorado millions of gallons of toxic sludge were accidentally discharged into the Animas River by a EPA cleanup crew. But lets start with a bit of context: Starting in the 1870s, miners rushed to the Silverton region to seek out gold, silver, and other valuable resources. The entrance to the Gold King Mine has long been collapsed, and the Environmental Protection…