Corporate social responsibility remains a developing challenge, and one that has proved highly relevant to social, governance and environmental factors in Spain. CMI Business School took part in Esade’s focus group, the “SDG Observatory”, which brought together more than 43 companies from Madrid and Barcelona committed to leadership and sustainability.
The organisations taking part had a rich exchange of knowledge. CMI showed that it has been committed from the outset to everything connected with good CSR practice, through Rafael García, president of CMI Business School, and Roberto Ballester, a lecturer at the institution, who set out the school’s academic values and its contribution to raising the importance of CSR today.
“It is important to note how much responsible leadership will weigh within organisations in the years ahead. Regulation is without doubt the engine of transformation, but it will matter more and more that an organisation acts authentically — first, to achieve genuinely sustainable growth, and second, to reduce greenwashing and the inconsistencies that customers will spot,” said García.
Another meeting with CMI Business School taking part was thus held with the aim of advancing good business practice, highlighting what has been achieved so far while emphasising the changes that CSR still needs.
“It is essential to ask whether this system needs fixing. We see a curve of inequality that keeps growing, despite all the positive impact achieved. Perhaps it all needs thinking through in depth, where the only way forward is to change the current system substantially. What worries me is that people are not talking about it,” said Ballester.
