They could not handle the amount ofdata that he wanted to analyze for his dissertation, which was part of a comparative study based on surveys in seven nations.
While the idea of reporting on CSR initiatives and housing all the reports on one online portal has the dual promise of benchmarking progress by providing transparent and comparativedata, as well as spurring competitive participation, making the exercise mandatory simply pushes reluctant conglomerates into a numbers game.
Until that information comes in, "I don't see a sea change in the approach to these patients based on this data, " says Alan Venook of UCSF, who is leading the comparative trial.