סמינר מחלקתי: Corporate Responsibility in Social Perspective
הסמינר השבועי של בית הספר ללימודי הסביבה ע"ש פורטר
יום שני, 13 בנובמבר, שעה 15:00-16:00
בניין הקפסולה, אודיטוריום (קומה 1-)
Corporate Responsibility
A Cultural and Governance 5,000 Years' Perspective
Yuval Davidor, PhD, DIC, BSc
ההרצאה תועבר באנגלית
It is widely accepted that Corporate Responsibility (CR or CSR) is a welcomed and needed gospel to correct modern corporate conduct regarding its sustainability, social and business scruples. It is also widely considered that this is a progressiveness step for humanity with respect to recent decades of corporate governance.
Reviewing the history of leadership and governance from ancient times opens a powerful understanding about CR with a surprising supposition. Not only CR is not a ‘new’ quality in civilizations, its restoration could be quite simple and all embracing as opposed to the complexity of the regulated CR reporting practices. Furthermore, if accepted, it suggests a different perspective how communities and corporates should train their leaders to take decisions.
The talk covers the evolution of governance, social and legal, since the days of the Pharos (with a surprising link to geology and etymology).
Yuval Davidor, Ph.D., DIC, B.Sc.
In 1994 Dr Davidor founded his first company with the goal of serving as a think tank to solve industrial intractable problems. In 1995 raised seed financing on the basis of a business plan to optimize container stowage for the container shipping industry.
After initial sales in 1996 to Hapag-Lloyd AG and ZIM Ltd, span-off another activity in 1997, Schema Ltd (www.Schema.com) to optimize spectrum utilization of cellular networks. Schema offers management and planning software to cellular operators worldwide to optimize the configuration of their cellular networks for maximal capacity and line quality. Schema was acquired by Teoco Inc in Nov 2011.
In 2004 co-founded and CEOed Ethos Networks (www.ethos-networks.com), a full system metro area network vendor. Ethos offers a complete carrier Ethernet solution for the metro network that can be integrated with an existing network of any type, or deployed independently. Ethos was acquired in 2010 by Tejas Networks.
Since 2009, involved with a variety of Clean Tech projects and companies to do with re-cycle of water, emission control, municipality waste re-cycling and others.
In 2010 took management turn around job at Lextran Ltd (www.lextran.co.il), an Israel green energy start-up that developed a multi-pollutant (SOx & NOx) simultaneous removal and converting them into a fertilizer. Lextran main market is in China where several commercial scale deployments have been deployed and a local subsidiary have been established.
In 2017 founded Pardes Capital (www.pardescapital.co.il), a venture capital fund devoted to invest and foster Israeli sustainability emerging innovation.
Dr. Davidor held several board duties as Executive Director with Lextran, Chairman of Ethos Networks, at Schema Ltd., FlyingBooks Ltd., Verdi Visual Intelligence Ltd. and of B-Obvious Ltd..
Previously, a scientist in the department of computer science at the Weizmann Institute. A member of the School for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University and a member of the Weizmann Institute Scientific Council.
Dr. Davidor has authored and co-authored books, many academic publications, and holds several patents in the field of evolutionary computation, optimization, hand writing recognition, shutter design and cake decoration. Davidor has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Tel-Aviv University and a D.I.C. and doctorate degrees in robotics and artificial intelligence respectively from Imperial College, the University of London.
