The Huron Consulting Group, is a global management consulting company offering services in healthcare, education, law, and finance. It was formed in 2002, by a core group of experienced financial and operational consultants who used equity sponsorship from investors. These consultants were led by Lake Capital Management LLC. The HCG headquarters is situated in Chicago, Illinois and is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market. For the year 2012, Huron recorded revenue of US $626.0 million. ...

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Leopold Essays Aldo Leopold, a wildlife conservationist, wrote the "Land Ethic" to alert the American people of the unethical use of land in the United States. He stresses the importance of creating a universal understanding that land needs to be preserved, and that will only come when humans a...

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In their book, "Business and Society", Carroll and Buchholtz give this definition of CSR that is broken down into four components, "The social responsibility of business encompasses the economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary (philanthropic) expectations that society has of organizations at a given point in time."... Keith Davis and Robert Blomstrom give their definition of CSR in the Carroll and Buchholtz book. ...

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In discussing social responsibility, Friedman summarises his views in his book, Capitalism and Freedom: "[In a free society ] there is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud." ...

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