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Corporate Social Responsibility Now a Staple at Davos
[P]roduction of...a ready-to-use therapeutic food provided to malnourished children in Haiti, is expected to accelerate...Abbott and a philanthropic affiliate have committed millions of dollars and tapped company expertise to help [NGO] Partners in Health reach a goal of supplying the vitamin-rich, peanut-based food to 50,000 children a year...Corporate social responsibility is likely to have a high profile again at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos...While many big corporations have developed programs..., other companies appear to have built themselves around social-responsibility missions, taking care in how they source, manufacture and market products...Deborah Leipziger, a corporate sustainability consultant...[says c]ompanies are shifting from a view of good corporate citizenship as making traditional philanthropic donations to one in which they consider how they affect the environment and society [also refers to Calvert, Coca Cola, Ford Motor, Seventh Generation, Stonyfield Farm, Tata]