by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 2, 2012
A Harvard Business School “Working Paper” by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim investigates the effect of a corporate culture of sustainability on multiple facets of corporate behavior and performance outcomes. The authors find that corporations...
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 | Jul 26, 2012
In May, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in partnership with the Boston Consulting Group, issued its third annual Sustainability and Innovation Global Executive Study. The survey gathered input from more than 4,000 executives and managers across all...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 9, 2012
Recently, I moderated a panel at the UN Social Innovation Summit with Coca-Cola, Verizon and Intel. Here is the conversation that took place.
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 28, 2012
Just prior to Senate testimony by JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Senator Bernie Sanders announced that more than $4 trillion in near zero-interest Federal Reserve loans and other financial assistance went to the banks and businesses of at least 18 current and former...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 19, 2012
Since 2004, the Walton Family Foundation has given EDF (the Environmental Defense Fund) more than $53 million. Last year, the foundation’s donations totaled an astounding 15 percent of EDF’s budget, or $13.7 million. This news generated a front page New York Times...
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...
