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Roundtable on Shared Value in Education
Seventeen corporate and global education leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum 2014 in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how they are rethinking the role of business in global education.
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A new report highlights the power of venture capital to source sustainable business innovations.
Nonprofits Should Lead the Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is creating new business models, forcing traditional for-profit businesses to adapt or fall behind. The same will hold true for the social sector.
Scoring Sustainability
Through an initiative called Earthwards, Johnson & Johnson aims to create a greener company—one product at a time.
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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.