by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 28, 2011
Give yourself a gift this holiday season that will magnify your voice and your influence. For the millions of small- and medium-sized businesses in America, the machinations that take place inside the Washington beltway may feel like stories of aliens on another...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 22, 2011
This holiday season, think beyond yourself – and think beyond wasting money on stuff you don’t really need. Instead, consider helping someone who really needs the help. Like homeless children in the US – in your own state or community. This is a population without a...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 20, 2011
Al Gore and David Blood, his partner in the multi-billion private equity fund, Generation Investment Management, recently opined on “How businesses can embrace environmental, social and governance metrics,” on the Op-Ed page of The Wall Street Journal, an unlikely...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 13, 2011
What we need today are companies who are willing to make bold, revolutionary commitments even if they don’t yet know how they’ll be able to fulfill them. I’m thrilled that these awards recognized such leadership! The 6th International Green Awards were recently held...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 1, 2011
If anything is going to jump start America, it may just be the new generation of entrepreneurs. I say that because I just spent time in Kansas City as a speaker and mentor at the Youth Entrepreneurship Summit 2011, hosted by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 29, 2011
We are a society consistently in search of a quick fix – from diets to energy, we want the quick and easy solution, and we want it today, to hell with what tomorrow brings. One would hope that those whom we trust to invest our money would be wiser, yet, we know how...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 28, 2011
Having not broken my obsession with the print version of The New York Times, I was thrilled to greet Black Friday by opening to a full-page ad from Patagonia that urged readers “Don’t Buy This Jacket.” To the best of my knowledge, Patagonia has never...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 21, 2011
So here’s the good news: we absolutely have the ability to solve our current global environmental, social and economic crises. The not-so-good news: Do we have the will to do it? From my perspective, the challenge is not about technology, but rather about...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 16, 2011
The Associated Press recently carried an announcement from the once-bankrupt insurance company AIG. The headline read, “AIG unit offers companies ‘reputation’ insurance.” The coverage, in the form of a new kind of insurance product, would help companies...
