by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 9, 2011
Unemployment shatters families, communities, self-respect and the belief in a positive future. We have failed – or at least are failing – to provide an opportunity that is so basic to human dignity and well-being. An opportunity to participate in what is called “the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 2, 2011
“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 25, 2011
The rapid growth in farm output and productivity that we came to expect in the latter half of the twentieth century is now failing to keep up with the demand for food. Population increases, rising affluence in once-poor countries and changing weather patterns are to...
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 | Aug 18, 2011
Following up on my blog post titled “The State of America’s Children 2011,” I want to return to a little-noticed story from earlier this summer on college-readiness. Sharon Otterman, writing in The New York Times, reviewed the dismal data that the New York State...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 16, 2011
Charles Blow of The New York Times recently selected some of the saddest and most depressing statics from the recently released “The State of America’s Children 2011” report, issued last month by the Children’s Defense Fund. The report highlights the impact of the...
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 | Aug 3, 2011
“Trained people will build better companies.” -Director of New Member Training at Mondragon Cooperative Corporation- What if the board members of every US corporation were trained in the basics of corporate governance – before they took office? Imagine that kind of...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 1, 2011
“This is a people society, money is only a resource” -Mikel Lezamiz, Director of Cooperative Dissemination at Mondragon- As part of a group of 17 people from the Co-Lab at MIT, we all had lots of questions during the initial orientation. Our guide and primary teacher...
