CIVIL CORP REV/E

Introduction: Beyond the Mainstream Part 1: The New Economy of Corporate Citizenship Can Corporations Be Civil? Opening Minds Ethical Futures Breaking the Trust Barrier Civil Regulation Framing the Business Case The Future of the Civil Regulators The New Civil Governance Part 2: The Civil Corporation Foundations of Sustainability Sustainability as the Art of the Possible Civil Learning Part 3: Building the Civil Corporation Building Civil Corporations How Much is Enough? Useful Measures Conversational Corporations Professionalizing Credibility Part 4: Conclusions How Civil Can Corporations Be?

Dr Simon Zadek is Chief Executive of AccountAbility, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Government and Business of Harvard University's Kennedy School, and an Honorary Professor at the University of South Africa's Centre for Corporate Citizenship. He sits on the International Advisory Board of Instituto Ethos, the Advisory Board of Generation Investment Management, and the boards of the Employers' Forum on Disability and GAN-NET. In 2003 he was named one of the World Economic Forum's 'Global Leaders for Tomorrow'. Simon's previous roles include Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, the Development Director of the New Economics Foundation, and founding Chair of the Ethical Trading Initiative. He has served on numerous boards and advisory councils, including the State of the World's Commission on Globalization, the International Labour Organization's World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization, the UN Commission for Social Development Expert Group on CSR, and the founding Steering Committee of the Global Reporting Initiative. Simon has supported many businesses' efforts around the world in driving accountability innovations into their strategies and practices. His work has increasingly focused on facilitating businesses and their stakeholders in developing mutual understanding and collaborative initiatives. His work in this regard has been both at company level (for example, for Gap Inc in their work around labour standards, and GE in its development of its approach to human rights) through to his convening role of the MFA Forum, a large-scale collaboration involving leading textiles and apparel companies, civil society and labour organizations, international development agencies and financing institutions, and national governments and business associations. He has authored, co-authored and co-edited numerous publications, including, most recently, two Harvard Working Papers on the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships in development and

"'The intricate analysis... makes a powerful case for business to reassess their values, relationships and processes' The Financial Times"