However, these examples demonstrate that corporations can unlock powerful business opportunities that meet the demands of consumer social responsibility by actually listening to new ideas and engaging with employees and communities in new ways.
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Rick Berman is the Executive Director of the Center for Consumer Freedom, a nonprofit coalition supported by restaurants, food companies and consumers to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.
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Today seven different regulators have some responsibility for consumer financial protection, but none is focused on consumer protection as their priority.
This places a much greater responsibility on the consumer to make wise judgments about which outlets merit his attention.
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It is a move that will test one of the most enduring and consumer-centric corporate social responsibility strategies to be developed in the last decade.
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Debit cards excused the issuer from any responsibility for resolving these consumer headaches (which was wonderful for issuers but bad for consumers).
The problem is the head of, the chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has a responsibility to parents, to families, to kids all over this country and if she doesn't adequately fulfill that responsibility, there's no one else to do it.
There are some interesting ideas, notably that responsibility for immorality belongs to the consumer not the producer.
Another argument: Despite the flood of direct-to-consumer advertising on Vioxx, much of the responsibility for balancing the risks and benefits for Vioxx users fell on the shoulders of doctors.
Clearly there is a role for businesses and government to protect citizen and consumer data, but individual users also have a civic responsibility to protect our own devices and the networks we access.
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"We also recognise that regulators, policy makers, consumer representatives and the electricity industry especially, all have some responsibility in helping to explain the pricing picture, " he added.
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Sometimes that means coming up with more creative and smarter consumer-relevant solutions that link top product quality to the shared responsibility of producers and consumers.
Those kids depend on the chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission to protect them and that's an enormous responsibility.
While states and colleges share responsibility to keep down the rising cost of college, improved consumer disclosures can ensure that students and families make wise decisions when investing in higher education.
So although another of the Office for Budget Responsibility's forecasting booboos was to anticipate faster growth in consumer spending than has materialised, ministers were well aware that they could not count on the behaviour of consumers to lead the UK back to prosperity.
Consumer-driven health care means (to me) that consumers have more financial responsibility and more ability to decide how their health care dollar is spent.
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"Consumers are taking increasing personal responsibility for their own health and wellness, " according to Paul Sturman, president of Pfizer's consumer health-care unit.
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