by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 9, 2012
Achieving Impact: Responsible Business & Social Entrepreneurship View more presentations from jeffhollender. Notes from the presentation: Slide 1: Social Entrepreneurship and Responsible Business Social entrepreneurship and responsible business will only succeed...
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 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...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 9, 2011
Thomas Freidman recently passed along an excellent suggestion that he found on a blog: “U.S. congressmen should have to dress like NASCAR drivers and wear the logos of all the banks, investment banks, insurance companies and real estate firms that they’re taking money...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 23, 2011
I’ve never met Jeremy Grantham, but if you read what he writes there’s some big money that believes the time has come for transformational change. Grantham is the co-founder of an investment firm named GMO that was launched in 1977. Grantham began his investment...
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 | Mar 22, 2011
Inside Job is the story of a crime without punishment, an outrage that has mostly escaped legal sanction and social stigma. While Inside Job can feel at times like the best sort of university lecture, it finds filmmaker Charles Ferguson summoning the moral force...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 15, 2011
Why do people in the financial sector earn 100 times more than the average neurosurgeon? How is it possible that in 2009 the top 10 bankers earned an average of $900,000 an hour and the top 25 bankers earned as much as 658,000 entry-level teachers — put...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 2, 2011
Fighting Democracy and Destroying America’s Economic Future This has been quite a year for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a year of blunders as well as successes. On balance, it appears the chamber is winning more often than it’s losing. My concern is who’s benefiting...
