The People’s IPO
Lower-income patrons of Market Creek Plaza can now invest in the shopping center.
Business - Articles
Innovative ways to enhance corporate social responsibility (more)
Making It to McDonald’s
How Fair Trade coffee moved out of its niche and into the most mainstream market of all.
15 Minutes with Victoria Hale
MacArthur “genius” prize winner creates drugs for the developing world.
One Buyer at a Time
Aid organizations help build small businesses build capacity without asking whether people want the businesses’ products. As these stories show, successful programs start with real buyers.
Capitalizing on Convergence
Nonprofits and businesses are converging - in the value they create, the stakeholders they manage, the organizations they form, and the financial instruments they use.
Podcast
Panel Discussion - Fostering Effective Nonprofit-Corporate Relations
Nonprofits and corporations can achieve their goals by working together. In this panel discussion, 2007 Nonprofit Boot Camp panelists describe the various forms of partnerships between nonprofit and for-profit organizations, their benefits, and their pitfalls. They talk about how to start and develop successful partnerships from the perspective of people who have sat on both sides of the table.
Review: The New Capitalists
THE NEW CAPITALISTS: How Citizen Investors Are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda by Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik, and David Pitt-Watson
A Tarnish on Green Goods
Why eco-friendly products may be bad for the environment.
Diversity Training Doesn’t Work
How can companies hire and promote more women and minorities?
Weaving Businesses Together
Organic Exchange uses its global network to promote environmentally friendly fibers.