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The Dangerous Allure of Win-Win Strategies
For the past 30 years, celebrated academics and business leaders have promoted the idea that companies often profit by addressing social and environmental problems. Although these proposals have been hailed as promising breakthroughs, they are unscientific and counterproductive.
Business Disruption From the Inside Out
Employees increasingly want their employers to become more responsible corporate citizens. Here is a playbook for how employees can be effective change agents and how leaders can respond to employee activism.
Open-access to this article made possible by The Pennsylvania State University and The University of Washington.
The Future of Fashion
With the goal of reducing pollution, Amsterdam-based Fashion for Good created the Good Fashion Fund (GFF), the first investment fund focused exclusively on encouraging collaborations between fashion and technology.
How Corporate Philanthropy Buys Influence
Companies use charitable giving to disguise political lobbying.
Precarious Scheduling in the Service Sector
Racial inequality exacerbates the oppressive scheduling faced by service sector workers.
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The Feminist Trailblazer of Black Philanthropy
A new biography of Madam C. J. Walker shows how America’s first self-made female millionaire and Black entrepreneur put philanthropy at the center of her business and life.
Using Six Conceptualizations of Capital to Help Achieve the SDGs
By abandoning a narrow understanding of capital as just assets that appear on a balance sheet, businesses and other organizations can harness the value of their people, relationships, knowledge, and processes to move the world closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Creating Strategic Value
A new book explains how to apply value investing principles to corporate management.
Climate Action Is Too Big for ESG Mandates
As a macro risk factor, climate change needs to be disentangled from the other social and governance mandates in the ESG investing rubric.