Hans Hassle

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Hans Hassle (born 1959) is a Swedish businessman who focuses on corporate social responsibility. He runs the management consultancy company evolution? AB and was the General Secretary of Plantagon International Association.[1]

Biography

Hans Hassle worked as a freelance journalist between 1981 and 1986 focusing on travel journalism. He, amongst other things, was portraying

People Magazine from his time on the Indonesian island Siberut, where he lived with the animist Mentawei tribe.[citation needed
]

Hassle has been working with

Ericsson Globe to draw attention to the new product Ariel.[citation needed
]

In 1989, Hassle, together with former head of the department of culture in Rättvik, Åsa Nyman, and former CEO of Draggängarnas limestone quarry, Margareta Dellefors, established the first working group for the development of outdoor area Dalhalla in Rättvik.[2]

Hassle was in 2001 appointed member of the Central Ethical Review Board

Swedish government
.

Hassle has been a member of the steering committee of the Swedish Geopark project Meteorum since 2010.[4]

Since 2008 Hassle serves as the CEO and General Secretary of

Onondaga Nation.[5] Hassle was the first European citizen to ever be appointed CEO and General Secretary of a company owned by a Native American nation and run outside of the United States.[6]

Corporate social responsibility

Since 1986, Hassle has been working with

In 2004, Hassle co-authored together Christina Carsten, professor at the Stockholm Center for Organizational Research,

UN's recommendations on "Good Corporate Citizenship".[9]

Hassle has developed a new business model called the Companization [10]- a hybrid of a non-profit association and a for-profit company that incorporates moral values into an otherwise economic forum by implementing the Earth Charter and the United Nations Global Compact into the articles of association of the company.[citation needed]

International recognition

In 2012, Hassle became an official member of the World Entrepreneurship Forum and joined the Forum’s Think Tank as one of 88 members.[11]

Hassle was in 2010 and 2011 nominated Sustainable Leader of the Year by the Swedish Association of Environmental Managers.[12] In 2012, he was awarded CEO of the Year, Sweden, by European CEO as well as received the World Finance 100 award in 2012.[13][14]

Family

Hassle is married to Karin Hassle, glass artist.[15] Together they have two children.

Bibliography

Co-author of the Global Compact Research Report Sweden

UN Global Compact in 2004.[16]

Author of the book "Business as Usual is over" (

ISBN 978-91-980170-0-7), published in 2012.[17]

References

  1. ^ Plantagon
  2. ^ "Dalarna.se | Dalhalla, kalkbrottet som blev världsarena". Archived from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Startpage - Ethical review board". Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Meteorum". Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  5. ^ Onondaga Nation [dead link]
  6. ^ Article on Plantagon, The Post-Standard, Syracuse, August 29, 2010
  7. ^ The Swedish Patent and Registration Office
  8. ^ "Stockholm centre for organizational research".
  9. ^ a b Global Compact Research Report Sweden
  10. ^ "Companization 001". plantagon.com.
  11. ^ "Payday Loans Online | Instant Quick Cash Loans USA".
  12. ^ "Hem | NMC Näringslivets Miljöchefer". Archived from the original on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  13. ^ World Finance 100 award
  14. ^ "CEO of the year 2012 – European CEO".
  15. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 July 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. ^ UN Global Compact
  17. ^ "Business as Usual is over — den röda kapitalisten (Pocket) | Plantagon". Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2012.