Seeding Mission-Driven Startups
A look at the current early-stage investment landscape for social startups, and how entrepreneurs can make a better case for funding.
Business - Articles
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Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses
Green Giants shares the six factors that have enabled these extraordinary firms to crack the code on profitable, sustainable business and offers a blueprint corporate leaders and entrepreneurs alike can follow.
Let Your Values Show
Using unbranded content to influence global issues can help eliminate doubt about corporate-driven social efforts, help move the needle on global issues, and still fortify the bottom line.
Making the Benefits of Cause Marketing Last
When companies champion a cause, their efforts often have a “rented” quality. It’s time to ramp up authentic, lasting connections between companies and social impact.
The New Face of Corporate Activism
Social intrepreneurs have an opportunity to change their companies for the better, from the inside out.
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Peers Inc
Peers Inc explores how age-old concepts of capitalism, consumerism, and even ownership are taking on new meaning in today’s marketplace of the "sharing economy."
A Coming of Age for Impact Investing
The new benchmark is an indication of a fast-growing and increasingly sophisticated impact investing industry.
Skill-Building Through Business Education
Models that tie pedagogy to business have the potential to provide revenue to help fund education and practical business exposure for students.
Improving Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships
Three ways corporations can more effectively partner with nonprofits.
Business Growth for Good: Why Context Matters
Corporations can achieve growth in emerging markets by investing in and organizing around sustainable and inclusive business activities.