MHC International Ltd. - Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility is concerned with treating the key stakeholders of a company or institution ethically or in a responsible manner. ‘Ethically or responsible’ means treating key stakeholders in a manner deemed acceptable according to international norms. Social includes economic and environmental responsibility. Stakeholders exist both within a firm and outside. Michael Hopkins (MHCi): A Planetary Bargain: Corporate Social Responsibility Comes of Age (Macmillan, UK, 1998) Updated by author Jan 2010.

The Directors (photo: Philip Stockton)

MHCinternational Ltd (MHCi) is a social enterprise whose main aim is to promote social, economic and environmental development using the services of the private sector. Its profits are aimed at furthering these goals through research and advisory services.

Executive Courses and training in CSR (see panel to right):

"Thank you very much for a great ending of the CSR program. I think we all enjoyed the days together last week. I appreciate now to have a network of people who have been through the same learning experience that I have been. Overall I am happy I signed up for the program and have learned a lot. You have an incredible network and I think that is the real strengths of the course; to listen to all these experts in their field" [Executive from the six month 2010 MHCi CSR Advanced Certificate held in Geneva, Switzerland over Jan-June 2010 and being repeated for fourth time over Jan-June 2011]

Research, training and advisory services are offered by our team of experts in two strategic areas:

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability and on the impact that our strategic business tools will have on making your organisation more sustainable.

Sustainable international development in emerging economies – MHCi has worked in over 120 countries on CSR, Development, Evaluations, Impact Analysis, PPP, Employment generation, Skills analysis and humanitarian development .

CSR is a strategic approach to running a business profitably. Many of our tools to do this can be found among our Monthly Features. See our recent article on:

Strategic CSR and Competitive Advantage

How is your company or NGO or public department doing? Try our 20 questions that will test your organisation's CSR. In 2 minutes you can rate your company or organisation against some of the best companies in the world. Known as CRITICS a result is given to you immediately. See also our Measurement Concepts which describes the conceptual basis of CRITICS.

Confused by all the terminology? Our Definitions will help you out.

Need to make a presentation on CSR? Check out our in-house created Monthly Feature as a rich source of ideas and back ground material. We have over Seventy short articles to choose from on all areas of CSR and a number of in-depth Publications .

Working hard in CSR but need some help for your Company? Then Contact Us or sign-up for one of our CSR Executive Briefings. We pride ourselves on clear, professional advice and pertinent solutions. We have over twenty years in CSR working with companies of all sizes - Large, Medium and Small and all over the world from BP to Addax Petroleum to BAT to Dubai World - some of this will be relevant to you.