Business
Caring for Working Caregivers
Employers must do more to help employees who combine their jobs with taking care of family members and friends.
Tag: Socially Responsible Business
Impact Investing
Searching for Impact
How search funds, a little-known private equity investment vehicle, can become a useful tool for impact investing.
Technology
The Unexamined Algorithm Is Not Worth Using
Why nonprofits need to evaluate the ethics of their algorithms.
Impact Investing
Sustainable Investments Are Not Always What They Seem
Investors need to better educate themselves about the local context in which their funds are deployed.
Social Enterprise
Do Benefit Corporations Respect Human Rights?
The B Corp movement has pushed a powerful model of socially responsible business that has the potential to advance human rights. But it has so far failed to engage human rights advocates—to its detriment.
Civic Engagement
The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering
One of the fastest-growing corporate citizenship programs is skills-based volunteering—in which a team of corporate employees works for an extended period of time to help a nonprofit solve a complex operational problem.
Impact Investing
Marginalized Returns
Impact investing has been seduced by a false narrative of combining social impact with financial gains.
Business
Sustainability Managers Could Lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Corporate sustainability leaders can turn challenges into opportunities for society and companies alike.
Leadership
Can Business Elites Save the “Africa Rising” Narrative?
Four strategies in particular may help Africa’s wealthiest businesspeople effect social change and drive economic growth.
Business
The Next Sustainability Frontier: Gender Equity as a Business Imperative
Corporate environmental sustainability initiatives can provide a roadmap for companies seeking to empower women.