Business
Executive Inaction
Executives fail to support corporate social responsibility more from a lack of moral motivation than from ignorance of the facts.
Tag: Socially Responsible Business
IMPACT INDIA
Creating a Social Business
How Jaipur Living developed a global rug business, one weaver at a time, and lifted thousands out of poverty.
IMPACT INDIA
Deploying Technology
Technology alone is not the innovation. Rather, the innovation lies in how technology is deployed.
Business
Corporate Social Responsibility for a Data Age
Proprietary data can help improve and save lives, but fully harnessing its potential will require a cultural transformation in the way companies, governments, and other organizations treat and act on data.
Business
The Business of Biodiversity
The benefits of environmental conservation and restoration reach far and wide, and across all sectors. More businesses need to realize the positive effects biodiversity has on their bottom line—and more governments need to pass legislation that protects biodiversity.
Business
Responsible Leadership Is Inclusive Leadership
The Compact for Responsible Business Leadership signed at this year’s World Economic Forum is an important step forward for corporations operating in a global society, but it needs reworking if it is to truly foster long-term societal value.
Social Enterprise
Bringing Together Business and Social Change: Not for the Faint of Heart
Launching social enterprises with national reach holds great promise, but there’s no easy route to success—a look at four lessons from the field.
Measurement & Evaluation
The New Double Bottom Line
By combining the characteristics of small and nimble organizations with those that have successfully scaled, can we have our impact and our numbers too?
Education
To Build Leaders for Social Impact, Universities Must Adapt
Universities play a critical role in producing social impact leaders committed to the public good and prepared to confront the challenges of an uncertain world.
Education
Three Lessons for Impact Investing Education Programs
Academic institutions can help build the impact investing field by teaching students a fuller suite of skills, clarifying the range of career paths open to them, and developing a better theoretical and practical knowledge base.