Consultants Talk Green: We Are Rather Friedmanite About This - A blog by Aman Singh
Aman Singh is the CSR Editor at Vault.com, where she focuses on how corporate diversity practices and sustainability translate into recruitment and strategic development. Her blog, In Good Company, discusses on many of these issues.
Consultants Talk Green: We Are Rather Friedmanite About This
Every year Vault conducts employee surveys to rank firms and companies by industry according to various standards including diversity, prestige, work/life culture, salary, etc. Last year, we added a short section on green, i.e., energy conservation, recycling, environmental friendliness and workplace safety, in the survey, hoping to get a glimpse into what companies were doing toward becoming ecologically friendly. We're currently in the middle of our 2010 Top Consulting Firms Survey.
These differ distinctly from the law community in not only their consciousness but also their very linear view of what purport as green initiatives. Those of you who read the ones I culled from the Top 100 Law Firm Survey will recall the responses as alternatively smug and trivial. The responses from the nations top consulting firms, however, carry a broader range, stretching from proud ownership of their firm's sustainability efforts to outright irrelevance. And some smugness as well. But it does seem like consultants just might be more open to breathing cleaner air than lawyers. Who would have thought. So without further ado, here are some of the best.
