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Article: STATE DEPT.: BUSINESSES SHOW GROWING INTEREST IN SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 12, 2007
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The U.S. Department of State's International Information Programs issued the following press release:
By Eric GreenUSINFO Staff Writer
Companies that go beyond the "bottom line" in making profits and work to improve society at large, a practice known as corporate social responsibility (CSR), can achieve this result in different ways.
Speaking at a CSR panel discussion at the December 3-5 Miami Conference on the Caribbean Basin, Patricia Canessa de Rivera explained how her firm, the Chevron Corporation, aims to better society with a global safety program to decrease the number of fatalities and injuries worldwide due to road crashes.
Canessa, based in El Salvador as Chevron's policy, ...