Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies

RBG
Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies
Acknowledgments
- Faiz Shah 1 and Ambreen Waheed 2
Putting together the Responsible Business Guide (RBG) has been a unique experience.
Here we have a decade of field experience, over a hundred academic references, the
priceless insight of leaders in their fields, and an ever-widening circle of informed stakeholder
opinion, all distilled into a simply worded, practical toolkit for entrepreneurs who have just
about enough time for picking up a useful idea and putting it to profitable use.
Responsible Business Initiative (RBI) has been particularly fortunate in its partners.
Center for International Private Enterprise has been more than simply a sponsoring partner.
We have worked closely with Mr. Moin Fudda and Mr. Hammad Siddiqui, visualizing this
Guide, based on CIPE’s experience within and outside Pakistan, with Mr. Huzaifa Hussain
providing support. Ms. Brooke Millis and Mr. Andrew Wilson at CIPE headquarters in
Washington, DC continued to offer feedback as we progressed through the drafting process.
Perhaps CIPE’s most important contribution has been in attracting a high-calibre RBG
Working Group, where each member has enriched the final product with their experience
and enthusiasm towards making Responsible Business a day-to-day reality. We hope to
begin working closely with ACCA, our administrative partner, who now has the task of
ensuring that stakeholders have access to this Guide for real-life applicability.
We feel that this Guide acquires its real significance because of special insights shared at
our request by steadfast friends such as Dr. Simon Zadek, globally acknowledged corporate
social responsibility thought-leader; Mr. Husain Dawood, a visionary among Pakistan’s
corporate leaders; Mr. Georg Kell, dynamic head of the UN Global Compact; and Mr. Ernst
Ligteringen, at the helm of the Global Reporting Initiative. The core of this Guide is built
around our discussions with such eminent champions of responsible business. Their
continued support adds ongoing value to further work we plan.
Our final word of thanks is reserved for the RBI team, Mr. Haseeb Hassan, Mr. Mohsin
Bashir, Mr. Feroze Shah, and Ms. Anam Fatima, a dedicated group, untiring in its effort and
unmatched in its resourcefulness.
We hope this guide will be your first step in an exciting journey with value-led business
and competitiveness progressing side by side towards responsible profits.
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