by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 20, 2011
“That the Italian and Basque cooperatives have grown so large is somewhat a mystery since, unlike capitalist enterprises, cooperatives are not expansionist by nature…Capitalist enterprises tend towards growth because increased scale generally leads to greater...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 18, 2011
(Note: This blog post is republished from the original, published on July 14, 2011, hosted by the MIT CoLab and accessible here.) It used to be that dissatisfied Americans looked for ways to fix the economy when it wasn’t working for them, using policy adjustments and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 13, 2011
A better way is possible. We spend more than $110 billion fighting wars in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but are plagued with a poverty rate of more than 17 percent. At 6.7 deaths per 1,000 live births, the U.S. had the highest infant mortality rate among the high-income...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 11, 2011
A recent international survey conducted by Accenture revealed some pretty interesting statistics about the state of sustainability in the mindset of corporate leaders. Though a majority see the benefits — namely in reputation and trust (cited by 49% of...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 7, 2011
“The neglect of women’s rights means the social and economic potential of half the population is underused. In order to tap into this potential, we must open up spaces for women in political leadership, in science and technology, as trade and peace negotiators, and as...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 5, 2011
We know that water, forests, soils – all the essentials of life – are becoming depleted and degraded at a dangerous rate. We know that our climate is changing at a speed and on a scale far beyond anything modern humanity has experienced. And we know that the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 15, 2011
As if we didn’t have enough problems. Now we learn, through the Kauffman Foundation’s recently published research, that the ever-expanding financial sector is depleting the talent pool of potential high-growth company founders. While all entrepreneurs need capital and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 25, 2011
For some, the taste of chocolate is bittersweet. Seventy percent of the world’s cocoa comes from small-scale family farmers in West Africa, whose economy is critically dependent on cocoa (revenues account for more than 33 percent of Ghana’s total export earnings and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 24, 2011
This post was originally published by Phil Radford to Greenpeace USA’s blog and is accessible here. “A sad fact of living in an American city like Chicago is that every time we open a newspaper or switch on the local news, we hear of some senseless, tragic...
