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RBG Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies We invite you to use the checklists at the end of each chapter, and map your progression along the “4-Ps”. From sharing your understanding of the RBF with your peers and your counterparts and customers, to guiding a process of improvement from Perception to Performance at a pace you determine. We invite you to challenge the RBF, both as conceptual description of what it conveys as the core principles of responsible competitiveness, as well as a practical tool for moving you from thinking to action and beyond. We invite you to share your experience of using the RBG - the Responsible Business Guide. We hope you share everything, from its narrative to its meaning and particularly its usability as you travel on the road to responsible competitiveness. And, most importantly, we invite you to let us know how the RBG has helped you in realizing and implementing your CSR and business goals. Good luck as you put this guide to use. The RBF is rooted in experiences from companies around the world. We ask that you help make it become stronger by helping us to ensure that more and more stories and experiences are woven into its fabric. 56 Responsible Business Initiative
RBG Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies Endnotes and Appendix 1 Dr. Faiz Shah co-founded Responsible Business Initiative and presently heads Development Management at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. He has advised governments, companies, non-governmental organizations and UN programs on change management and institutional reorganization. On the visiting faculty at Punjab University, he has lectured at Michigan Business School and the Wharton School, trained over 3,000 grassroots government officials and community leaders in Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand, and overseen over 300 community service projects in diverse locations. He has led Saga, Pakistan’s largest sporting goods company and was among the first working groups members of the Global Reporting Initiative. 2 Ms. Ambreen Waheed, founder and Executive Director of Responsible Business Initiative, is among the pioneers of CSR in Pakistan. She currently chairs SAARC Alliance for Responsible Business and serves on the Stakeholder Council and Board Nominating Committee of the Global Reporting Initiative, the Board of Trustee of Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production, national Steering Board of the United Nations Global Compact, Member, governance structure AccountAbility‘s AA1000 SES, UNCTAD’s CSR Expert Panel and Review Committee on ISAR, the EFMD-UNGC Globally Responsible Leaders Initiative, the SECP’s task force on NGO Governance, the CSR expert panel for ICAP Corporate Governance and juries of the Asian Forum Corporate Social Responsibility Awards, AIM-Intel IACRA Awards. She has a masters’ degree in Computer Science from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, a Master’s of Philosophy in Management from the University of Cambridge, UK and post-graduate academic experience at the Speed Scientific School, USA. She has taught at ESSEC-France, University of Michigan and the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. 3 Dr. Simon Zadek is an acknowledged global thought leaders in CSR. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Government and Business, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He founded and was until recently, the Chief Executive of AccountAbility. He has authored numerous publications and sits on the boards of Instituto Ethos, Generation Investment Management, the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development, the Council of GAN-NET and the founding Steering Committee of the Global Reporting Initiative. In 2003 he was named one of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Global Leaders for Tomorrow’. 4 Mr. Husain Dawood is among Pakistan’s leading businessmen, and is presently Chairman of Dawood Hercules Chemicals Limited, Engro Corporation Limited, Karachi Education Initiative/Karachi School of Business and Leadership, and the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, which is the largest World Bank financed social fund in the world. Mr. Dawood serves on the Boards of the Commonwealth Business Council, Pakistan Business Council, the Pakistan Center for Philanthropy, and Beaconhouse National University. He is on the Board of Trustees of Karachi Education Initiative, London, Asia House, London, Global Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), and is the first Pakistani member of the World Economic Forum. As its Honorary Consul in Lahore, the Italian Government has conferred upon Mr. Dawood Responsible Business Initiative 57
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