Socially Responsible Business

How combining “high-tech” and “high-touch” support can improve global financial health.

Rethinking the Global Development Convening

By Andrew Stern, Moitreyee Sinha, & Sara Wallace Beatty 3

This year marks the last Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. How might future global development convenings build on the meeting’s success to create even greater impact?

The Calculus for Commitment: The Power of Involving the Private Sector in Social Impact Networks

By Anna Muoio & Faizal Karmali 4

Why social sector organizations should make engaging for-profit companies a normal part of their problem-solving strategies—and four ways to do it effectively.

Hidden Talent: How Smart Companies Are Tapping Into Unemployed Youth

By Willa Seldon, Katie Smith Milway, Simon Morfit, & Brian Bills 6

Refining the raw talent of the 5.5 million young Americans out of work and out of school provides compelling opportunities for companies, youth, and society—a rare trifecta—that a growing number of corporate leaders are betting on.

Business

Engaging Employees to Create a Sustainable Business

By Paul Polman & CB Bhattacharya 12

The key to creating a vibrant and sustainable company is to find ways to get all employees personally engaged in day-to-day corporate sustainability efforts.

Business

Resisting Temptation

By Ute Stephan & Marieke Huysentruyt

Behind the success of Triodos Bank success lies a pattern of refusing to take easy or obvious steps to drive growth.

Social Enterprise

Millennials and Hybrid Legal Structures Are Here to Stay

By Chris Miller 7

While the connection between Millennials and hybrid legal structures isn’t obvious, these two forces of social innovation share common history, values, and futures.

Measurement & Evaluation

Impact Assessment: Corporate Sustainability 2.0

By Joanna Radeke 4

Unless companies commit to measuring impact, their sustainability initiatives will solve only pockets of social problems or have no real impact at all.