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Reimagining Climate Change Through Agriculture, With Project Drawdown
Can climate change be a good thing? Shana Rappaport and Amanda Ravenhill of Project Drawdown look at climate change not as a dreaded certainty but as an opportunity for growth and change. Amanda Ravenhill is the Executive Director of Project Drawdown, which she...
In Focus
Parity in the workplace for women with Eve Ellis of Morgan Stanley
Eve Ellis, wealth advisor at Morgan Stanley, reveals the value of parity in the workplace in her impactful video interview about the Matterhorn Group. Last summer, Eve was doing research and learned the stunning correlation of how women in leadership contributes to...
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Investing For a Sustainable Future: Investors Care More About Sustainability
The MIT study is out! The good news is more and more investors care about where there money is going. The study reveals a "growing number of investors are paying attention to ESG performance, as evidence mounts that sustainability-related activities are material to...
Catalyzing the Connection Economy
Somewhere along the line our culture lost contact with the recognition of oneness of all life, the connectedness to each other. Our institutions – government, economy, religion are all built on a false premise of separation. Simply spoken, in Economics 101 we learned...
Sectors
Reimagining Climate Change Through Agriculture, With Project Drawdown
Can climate change be a good thing? Shana Rappaport and Amanda Ravenhill of Project Drawdown look at climate change not as a dreaded certainty but as an opportunity for growth and change. Amanda Ravenhill is the Executive Director of Project Drawdown, which she...
True Innovation
In 1997, while rummaging through a bin of novelty items in a tiny sidewalk shop in San Francisco’s China Town, I stumbled upon an item that sounded too good to be true. It was a shaving razor made of a self sharpening non-metallic material that was supposed to be good...
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How-To Instantly Unleash Your Competitive Edge
Social entrepreneurs are regularly (albeit erroneously) revered and romanticized as pioneering visionaries - tenaciously overcoming groupthink, rallying followers to the cause and single-handedly building their social enterprises. The word superhero comes to mind. In...
Feature
Dan Crisafulli of Potrero Investment Advisors on impact and policy | Vol 1
Impact investing expert Dan Crisafulli affirms the role of social capital to facilitate critical solutions on behalf of environmental and social challenges we face today. In this video interview, Crisafulli talks about how impact investing provides companies, private...
How-To Figure Out Your Social Entrepreneurship
"We gain something profound when we stand up for our beliefs, just as part of us dies when we know that something is wrong, yet do nothing....We don't have to tackle every issue, but if we avoid them all, if we remain silent in the face of cruelty, injustice, and...
Insurgent Disrupters
Walter Isaacson’s new book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, offers a computer age grand tour: from the tentative beginnings of the computer age in the 1830s all the way forward to Wikipedia and the Internet....
Finding the 84% of Stock Market Value That Most Investors Ignore
The global economy is made up of capital in many forms. Fortune magazine’s recent annual release of the 100 Best Companies to Work For list and the annual Great Place to Work® Conference in April 2015 present opportunities for investors to better understand the...
Inquiring Minds Want to Know “Why?”
Why do companies with gender diverse boards perform better? As the portfolio manager of a strategy which seeks to benefit from this fact,* I am often asked this question by investors who think there must be one holy grail answer. They even seem ready to boast...
SoCap explores making money into meaning in San Francisco
San Francisco - October 5-9, 2015 you can join a legion of global innovators, investors, foundations, governments, institutions, and social entrepreneurs at Fort Mason in San Francisco. SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) is a world-renowned conference series dedicated to...
True Innovation
In 1997, while rummaging through a bin of novelty items in a tiny sidewalk shop in San Francisco’s China Town, I stumbled upon an item that sounded too good to be true. It was a shaving razor made of a self sharpening non-metallic material that was supposed to be good...
Dear Investment Banker
Dear Investment Banker, If you knew the secret of one more condition to set for your pre-IPO client that could lead to financial success for the client, would you advise on it? Your clients hope so. So I am going to let the cat out of the bag. Look at each client’s...
Tim Daly actor and board member of the Creative Coalition on the value of the arts | Vol 1
Quoting Einstein's wisdom, actor Tim Daly brings a refreshing perspective about the importance of creativity in developing new technologies. It's not surprising that this Emmy award winning TV star would offer a smart and informative interview on how the arts impact...
Innovation In Two Visits
Today, innovation isn’t just a luxury for businesses. Innovation, in fact, is the critical difference between success and failure, between survival and extinction. As Peter Drucker once said: “Business comes down to two thing: innovation and marketing.” And today,...
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