The Perils of ‘Green Business’
An excerpt from The Business of Less: The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril on how to fix corporate sustainability.
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Ending Period Shame and Poverty in Asia
Innovative approaches to addressing social stigma related to menstruation, led by women in Japan and China, are making the issue visible and highlighting the role it plays in gender inequality.
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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.
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An excerpt from The New Builders on balancing scale with innovation and the vital role played by small businesses.
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With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Engaging Employees to Create a Sustainable Business
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.
The Next Phase of Business Sustainability
The era of corporations integrating sustainable practices is being surpassed by a new age of corporations actively transforming the market to make it more sustainable. Open access to this article is made possible by The Regents of the University of Michigan on behalf of the Erb Institute.
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
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