by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 5, 2016
This is an excerpt from my article originally posted on the Standford Social Innovation Review on 03/30/16 We live with an illusion so powerful that we endlessly mistake it for reality. Merriam-Webster defines “free market” as “an economic market or system in which...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 1, 2013
Several months ago I posted about “The Poverty-Creation Industry, so I was fascinated to see Peter Buffett’s (son of Warren Buffett) New York Times Op-Ed on the “The Charitable-Industrial Complex.” Peter starts by discussing the unintended consequences of well...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 23, 2013
I talk a lot about the concept of “radical transparency” – in fact, it was one of the guiding principles in creating Seventh Generation – so I’d like to delve a little deeper into what exactly it means and how it can be a powerful tool to transform...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 11, 2012
On June 11–13, 2012, the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), a national public policy and advocacy organization, is bringing more than 125 innovative and triple bottom line business leaders from across the country to meet with at the White House with senior...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 10, 2012
Why is the former chief of Fannie Mae still a director of a public company as prominent as Goldman Sachs and Target? How can Charles O. Prince III, the former chief executive of Citigroup, who resigned under pressure in 2007 amid huge write-downs at the bank, be an...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 23, 2012
Dispatches from The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth 2050: The Food Water Energy Nexus. Last week I was in Houston to attend an intimate gathering of about 50 people to participate in The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 4, 2012
The answer: By avoiding tax payments and cutting its US workforce! No corporation has surpassed General Electric’s mastery of profit-maximization, or its use of public-relations (“corporate propaganda”) to mask its true aims behind the widely-supported...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 27, 2012
Out of the The New York Times unfolds a story that once again highlights the absence of morality and fair play that has come to represent the company we know as Goldman Sachs. Goldman’s own employee’s in Japan workers are unionizing. In the wake of 200,000 financial...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 21, 2012
“The combination of group incentive pay with policies that empower employees and create a positive workplace culture reduces voluntary turnover and increases employee intent to stay and raises return on equity.” National Bureau of Economic Statistics Working Paper No....
