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Business - Articles
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How to Encourage the Corporate Heart
Beyond targeting actions, laws should build the standards, signals, and structures that shape mindsets.
Impact Accounting Has an Equity Problem
Is water in Sweden really 25 times more valuable than water in Mauritania?
Who Should Pay for ESG Infrastructure?
Foundations and nonprofits built the tools that companies now use for ESG reporting, brand credibility, and risk management. Is there a funding model for maintaining these tools so they remain credible, transparent, and financially viable?
Organizational Justice
A path forward for diversity, equity, and inclusion work.
Assessing the Equitable Inclusion of Marginalized Workers
Four lessons from a Los Angeles hospital's effort to shift power to community health promoters.
Review
Can Business Schools Reclaim Their Noble Purpose?
Andrew Hoffman argues for a reinvention of business education so that tomorrow's leaders can effectively tackle today's largest challenges.
How One Innovative Energy Company Committed to Green an Entire Country
E.ON Italia sparked Italy’s green energy transition by igniting a movement within its workforce—one that rippled out to influence society at large.
The Future of Innovation Is Collective
The world is undergoing simultaneous economic, technological, geopolitical, environmental, and social changes that organizations cannot address alone. Only a collective approach to social innovation can solve for challenges that are too large for individual organizations.
Corporate Philanthropy as Political Hedge
Companies in Taiwan with ties to the ruling party invested in public welfare to reduce the potential for popular backlash during the nation’s democratic transition.