Business
Making the Global B Corp Movement Bloom in Korea and Beyond
Four steps B Corp must take to successfully implement its “glocalization” strategy and promote responsible business in South Korea and beyond.
Tag: Sustainability
Innovations in environmental and social behavior that enable organizations and society to operate for the long term
Podcast
Social Enterprise
Powering Needs, Empowering Lives
SELCO caters to India’s hundreds of millions of rural poor with solar-powered energy solutions carefully customized to their needs. Now the social enterprise is sharing its model with others around the world.
Environment
Business Executives Want to Be Pushed Towards Responsible Sourcing
For ESG compliance to become more than lip service, corporate leaders say they need activist pressure, government regulation, and a strong business case.
Excerpt
Business
Business and the Sustainable Development Agenda
An excerpt from Public Goods, Sustainable Development and the Contribution of Business reconsiders the public goods concept and puts forth models for business and the public sectors to respond to the global challenges that our post-COVID-19 world is facing.
Environment
The Tree Army
Gone West hires unemployed young adults to plant trees, turning reforestation into a profitable business.
Design Thinking
An Insightful Collaboration
The social enterprise Smart Focus grounds their solutions to China’s rural vision-care crisis in research.
Excerpt
Collaboration
A Collaborative Philosophy
A new book examines how the world of ideas shapes social innovation.
Impact Investing
How Academia Can Do More to Advance Sustainable Finance
With looming global crises, scholars now more than ever must connect finance to its role in achieving social and environmental goals. Here are five ways they can step up their teaching and research.
Impact Investing
Making a Better Business Case for ESG
Without clearer insight into the financial benefits of corporate sustainability efforts, they may never be scaled up in the face of climate change, COVID-19, inequality, and many other perceived or real challenges to a company's bottom line. Part of the Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow in-depth series.
Business
The B Corp Movement Goes Big
The campaign to reform capitalism by making companies prioritize stakeholders could never succeed without getting large multinational corporations on board. Now that Danone, Laureate Education, and Natura have signed on, the B Corp movement is demonstrating how it can be done.