February 2nd, 2006

SRI Retirement Planning, CSR

If you haven’t yet gotten your copy of Business Ethics’ Winter 2005 issue, this is a good one to get (or read some of it online). It has some great information on retirement planning using socially responsible investing mutual funds and other vehicles. I even got a great contact to a local group of socially responsible entrepreneurs right here in Joisey (remember Joe Piscopo on Saturday Night Live?) from information listed on one of the SRI advisors interviewed.

There’s also a good article that sums up a piece on corporate social responsibility (CSR) written in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, as well as discussing it with the author, Deborah Doane. It gives us a sobering dose of reality that profit sometimes does conflict with principles and that CSR isn’t the ultimate or only solution to get business to where it should be — serving all of its stakeholders over the long term.