The First Rule of Corporate Social Responsibility Is Not What You Think
What corporations do to society is far more important than what corporations can do for society.
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Putting Shared Value into Practice
The idea of creating shared value is deeply compelling, but “the how” and best practices can be difficult to propagate.
The Power of Unreasonable Teams
Intrapreneurs can accelerate solutions for the complex environment that companies face in the 21st century.
Driving Innovation Through Math Education
The private sector needs to support and encourage an innovative math curriculum.
People’s Choices Matter
Although new corporate forms like B Corps make it easier to pursue a social mission, it turns out that you don't need one to do so.
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The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
The Truth About Ben and Jerry’s
Contrary to myth, the sale of Ben & Jerry’s to corporate giant Unilever wasn’t legally required.
The Greening of Wal-Mart
For much of its history, Wal-Mart’s corporate management team toiled inside its “Bentonville Bubble,” narrowly focused on operational efficiency, growth, and profits. But now the world's largest retailer has widened its sights, building networks of employees, nonprofits, government agencies, and suppliers to “green” its supply chains. Here's how and why the world’s largest retailer is using a network approach to decrease its environmental footprint – and to increase its profitability.
The Myth of CSR
The problem with assuming that companies can do well while also doing good is that markets don't really work that way
Capitalizing on Convergence
Nonprofits and businesses are converging - in the value they create, the stakeholders they manage, the organizations they form, and the financial instruments they use.