by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 8, 2011
Many companies are slowly becoming more sustainable and toying with transparency in an effort to establish greater consumer trust and brand authenticity. And consumers are clearly interested in more responsible products from trustworthy companies. Yet, companies are...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 5, 2011
Fred Freundlich, a native of the Boston area, moved to Mondragon for the first time in 1982, in his mid-twenties. He was fascinated by a business world that he believed was impossible to create. Corporations that value human dignity over profits were, in his...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 29, 2011
This is the first of a series of posts I’ll be writing to describe my trip to the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, located in the Basque region of Spain. I’m compelled to start with purpose, mission and values. Whatever one might conclude about Mondragon, the single...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 27, 2011
By Nicholas G. Luviene, from “Building a Platform for Economic Democracy: A Cooperative Development Strategy for the Bronx.” © 2010 Nicholas G. Luviene. (Note: This excerpt is republished with permission from Mr. Luviene.) Mondragon is located in the Basque region, a...
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 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 | May 12, 2011
Our economic future, though built by the architects of then and now, lies in the hands of the next generation. And that future looks bright, based on the strong ideals of some of the students coming out of undergraduate and graduate business programs nationwide. The...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 11, 2011
OK, it was my first time. I was sucked in by the ecstatic repeat attendees, the flow of exceptional online videos, and the opportunity to reach out to the rich and famous. What struck me right upon arrival at this year’s TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)...
