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Have You Asked Them What They Need?
Corporate social responsibility programs vs. community partnerships.
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mentors
How to make the most of being a mentor.
Where Is the BOP Health Care Fortune?
Research shows that healthcare social enterprises are segmenting the BOP and leaving the bottom 50 percent of consumers behind.
Mandatory CSR in India: A Bad Proposal
Looked at from the perspective of the political right, and the left, and the center, the proposed law making CSR mandatory is a really bad idea.
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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.