by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 15, 2012
Gregor Barnum, my close friend, recently passed away. Gregor was a self-discoverer, a psychoanalyst of himself and of others. He was kind and gentle, though his mind was bold and audacious. He had a sixth sense for finding good people, and just as acute a sense of...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 11, 2012
Kudos to Ed Kilgore, a contributing writer for Washington Monthly, for his review of “The Slow-Motion Collapse of American Entrepreneurship,” by New America Foundation’s Barry Lynn and Lina Khan. The insightful article, which appeared in Washington Monthly’s...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 8, 2012
Cheryl L. Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, notes in her forward to Ron Schultz’s latest book Creating Good Work that it arrives at a critical time in the relatively short history of the social entrepreneurial movement. As Jeff Trexler points out in his...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 5, 2012
I traveled halfway around the world to keynote The First Corporate Social Responsibility International Forum ever held in Korea. Having never been to Korea, I’d like to share a little about the country and its culture. Korea is at the same time a new and an old...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 3, 2012
TOMS Shoes has taken no shortage of heat for the lack of sustainability of its business model. As Cheryl Davenport writes in her Fast Company story, “The Toms buy-one-give-one model does not actually solve a social problem. An increasing number of foreign aid...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 27, 2012
Most of what passes for “sustainability” isn’t actually sustainable at all. We have endlessly – and dangerously confused – “less bad” with “good.” Whether looking at a product or a company, sustainability ends up being mostly about less pollution, less waste, and the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 24, 2012
Our current system of pricing products and services ensures that society perpetually makes poor choices. Today we exclude most of the adverse social and environmental costs of producing goods from their price. The cost to clean up the groundwater pollution resulting...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 17, 2012
“Much of what has gone on can only be described by the words ‘moral deprivation.’ Something wrong happened to the moral compass of so many people working in the financial sector and elsewhere.” The Price of Inequality, Joseph E. Stiglitz By now we...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 5, 2012
Leaving Vermont yesterday, I never made it to Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention. After a five-hour delay in Washington, I gave up and spent the night. The delay allowed me to briefly watch the Convention and hear Julian Castro, the mayor of San Antonio...
