Dr. Cesar Mansibang

On leading from the rear or leading at the front

Back then, at Ateneo, I designed and facilitated a course titled Corporate Leadership that became a hit, attracting 250 workplace-based and experience-driven MBA students every trimester.

Debits & credits of work-life balance: Equation or integration?

A week ago, I interviewed an ostensible “millennial” for a supervisory IT position in my company’s IT division and offered him a nice package including potential career advancement. He was short-listed by my senior HR and IT managers as potentially befitting of the position we need. He works in the BPO industry with work from home arrangement that accordingly gave him more time for his hobbies.

Questions of value

“The   business   of   business   is   business,” a  classical depiction of the corporate profit maximization objective is arguable amidst   the current economic problems embroiling corporations across the globe and the demands of other corporate stakeholders for their mutual   well-being,   survival,   social   responsibility   and   sustainability.  Free   market 
enterprise   has   spawned   voracious   appetite   for   profits   that   many  times   resulted   in economic inequalities and social turmoil in societies.

Questions of value

“The business of business is business”, a classical depiction of the corporate profit maximization objective is arguable amidst the current economic problems embroiling corporations across the globe and the demands of other corporate stakeholders for their mutual well-being, survival, social responsibility and sustainability. 

Ethics, sustainability and the CPA

Do ethics and sustainability intersect? How is ethics, a theoretical moral standard, used to resolve the critical challenges of environmental sustainability? With diverse backgrounds and variegated viewpoints of people and interest groups, how could effective solutions to the complex existential threats to the environment be resolved? As CPAs, how can we contribute and enable solutions to the ethical sustainability of our environment? What are the ethics and sustainability issues in the CPA profession and what interventions may be proposed?