Making the Affordable Aspirational: Increasing the Adoption of Frugal Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid
Companies and nonprofits need to be more realistic and empathetic that consumers’ decisions are not purely driven by cost.
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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry
Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply report your program results and get them externally verified by a trusted third-party registry? It’s not as impossible as it sounds—in fact, we’re close.
Digital Service Development Needs an Ethical Pause
The ethical pause—a short period of reflection and inquiry about a project’s ethical implications and the team’s approach to the work—helps ensure teams ask the right questions and address issues of inequity and access in the services they develop.
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Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research
Through intentional investments and informed divestments, investors, philanthropists, and foundations can support environmentally conscious, community-centered, and reparative approaches to economic and technological change.
Time to Put the Fossil-Fuel Industry Into Hospice
If humanity is to survive the climate crisis, we must manage a just and orderly transition away from fossil fuels. The correct models for this resolution are triage, euthanasia, and hospice.
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A Music Industry for Musicians
Kobalt Music Group is challenging the dominance of the Big Three record labels by harnessing technology to pay musicians more, faster, and with greater transparency. But how far can it reform an industry built on the exploitation of its talent?
The Dance Between B Corps and Incumbents
Regular corporations and B Corps continue to fight for dominance over the corporate social responsibility label.
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The Right to Intimate Privacy
The Fight for Privacy investigates how governments and businesses violate and profit from our personal lives online.
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Reinventing How We Lead
An excerpt from Lead From the Heart on how emotions are the most powerful force in the workplace.
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What Business Leaders Bring to Tough Social Challenges
Many hold strong opinions about translating private-sector experience to social impact. Four pioneering founders have figured out how to make it work.