In a series of articles, our Corporate Volunteering Lead, Amanda Bowman discusses with organisations what makes their corporate volunteer programmes successful and looks at how their programmes hold up to Emerging World’s new Standard for Corporate Volunteering for the 2020s. The Standard includes a set of five Principles to provide an overall strategy and approach to corporate volunteering that can be applied to any existing corporate volunteering programme to augment what’s already working, or be used as a framework for a new corporate volunteering initiative.

In the next in our series Amanda interviewed Eva Halper, co-lead of the Global Citizens Program (GCP), a Corporate Citizenship initiative at Credit Suisse about how the GCP changes lives and drives partners forward.

The Global Citizens Program (GCP) is Credit Suisse’s flagship international skills-based volunteering program. Designed to promote the transfer of skills and expertise between employees and...

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Shareholder activism has been a highly visible feature of the global capital markets for the last several years. Prominent activist investors continue to make headlines with campaigns against some of the world's biggest companies. But now, beyond these powerful players, lies a rapidly growing set of investors, who are becoming "active" by taking stakes in companies and making demands of management and boards across the globe.

Shareholder activism is a developing industry that continues to evolve. Five years ago, activists were commonly viewed with a strong negative connotation – often dubbed as opportunistic 'corporate raiders' – reputed for making hostile takeovers for their own short-term personal gain, in potentially value-destroying ways for the companies they targeted. Today, we believe it is too simplistic to think of activism as an ominous 'threat' of predatory investors that corporates need to prepare to 'battle'. Rather, what it means to be an activist is much...

Project would mark the first investment of The MOMs Initiative

DAVOS – U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Merck for Mothers, Credit Suisse, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today that they will pursue supporting LifeBank’s efforts to expand access to lifesaving medical products—namely blood and blood products—for mothers in Africa. Announced at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the project would mark the first supported under The MOMs (Maternal Outcomes Matter) Initiative.

Nigeria requires an estimated 1.8 million units of blood every year to serve the needs of its growing population—including women in childbirth—but only 25 percent of this demand is met. Without access to blood, healthcare providers’ ability to treat postpartum hemorrhage—a leading cause of maternal deaths—is severely hindered. In Nigeria, over 180 women die due to complications during...