By empowering African youth through high-intensive education, Samsung is preparing both its future consumer base and its future employees for high performance that will ultimately culminate in more market-share and, as Samsung hopes, more profits.

Cause marketers can learn lessons as to how to connect their brands with stories that reach people after watching these TED.com clips.

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Companies are turning to creating shared value, benefiting company, consumer, and community in a triple-C win-win situation for all.

The cause of greener cities has become a defining mantle for many companies, particularly amongst corporate giants from IBM to Philips to Cisco.

Vodafone's multi-stakeholder partnership is a complex cause integration improving health outcomes for rural Brazilians while working in alignment with the company's values.

Pepsi is turning to triple bottom line approaches to making business decisions in Mexico, assisting local farmers and keeping costs down in the process.

Consider international giving as an effective outlet for CSR that scales impact considerably given the power of the dollar and the strength of the United States economy.

Men's Wearhouse earns high honors for an excellent cause integrated corporate social responsibility campaign that supports youth, moves forward the world in an important direction by highlighting a significant issue, and creating real change in the process.

Crowdsourcing helps CSR heads communicate with important stakeholders about strategic messages that move forward CSR goals.