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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...
In Focus
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...
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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,...
Kids Organic, Apparel For A Healthy World
Revi Schlessinger, co-founder of Kid's Organic apparel company is not your average entrepreneur mother--she is a mover-shaker woman. Revi's work has taken her into the world of high tech giants to consumer products to the US government. As a consultant with...
Sectors
Matthew Nordan: Using Transparency to Get Around R&D Roadblocks
When looking at sustainability and environmental policies, it's easy to think the worst. "It's easy to get bummed out about ongoing coal plants and U.S. opposition to action on climate change," Matthew Nordan, managing partner of MNL Partners, said to GreenBiz's Shana...
Solving for Scarcity
Amongst the many lessons we learn from the school of life is the realization that our present reality only appears to be complex or difficult because we have not yet found the idea to adequately explain what is actually happening. This is a humble attempt to explain...
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How-To Make Your Mom Proud Of You (Or Not)
If you have parents, your social activism career just might, with any luck at all, turn out OK. For some social sector activists, parents are hurdles to be pushed out of the way. The poem Journey for Justice repeats an time-worn generational story, "i struggle between...
Feature
Companies Can Engage Millennials Better
Fifty percent of the global population is currently under age 27. What does this mean for companies and how can they authentically engage with this generation? ____________________ Learn more Shana Rappaport As director of engagement for VERGE, Shana focuses on...
How-To Snag A Social Justice Job Interview
Are you a social sector job-seeker? Feeling frozen out of your future change-the-world job? Reluctant to enter the fray? Fear of failure stopping you from a career as a social entrepreneur? Café Impact's latest executive leadership video, How-To Snag A Social Justice...
Now is the time. May 1 deadline to enter the CleanTech Open Accelerator
Entrepreneurs with brilliant cleantech businesses from around the world have a short window until May 1 end of day to apply to The Cleantech Open, an accelerator with over 30 regional hubs in 6 countries. The success rate for startups in the Cleantech Open have show...
Meet the World’s First Chief Resilience Officer: Patrick Otellini
This month, San Francisco’s first earthquake czar broke ground by stepping into the role of the world’s first Chief Resilience Officer. Patrick Otellini brings a background in public policy and extensive knowledge of the city’s inner workings. After spending a decade...
Heidi Lubin, HEVT, and her disruptive solution to smart motors | Noble Profit Moment
Heidi Lubin, CEO of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies (HEVT) has a vision to create "high-performance, highly efficient, affordable and reliable electric motors". Her baby is a real winner, taking the prize at several major competitions including the coveted...
Resource Productivity: McKinsey Frames a Huge Business Opportunity
Companies need to shoot for the stars in thinking about resource productivity, according to a new report from McKinsey & Co. Fortunately, technology is presenting opportunities to do so. “Rather than settling for historic resource-productivity improvement rates of...
How-To Listen Selfishly To Unselfishly Lead Change
In the course of interviewing dozens of Café Impact social entrepreneurs from multiple continents working on a multiplicity of issues using a myriad of social change methodologies, one bit of advice emerged over and over again: Listen. Learn to be a good listener. I...
Bonnie Nixon of The Sustainable Roundtable on how data can help create transparency and sustainability within corporate America
Information is power and the goal of using metrics is to analyze solutions and measurements to make important changes in business also helps to create transparency. Bonnie Nixon talks about the goal of developing and leveraging the data to enable companies and people...
More Companies Face Climate-Related Risks to Supply Chains
It's easy to talk about companies needing to understand climate risks in their supply chains. It's a lot harder to do something about it. Risk and supply chains were woven tightly throughout the conversation at the Climate Leadership Conference last week in San Diego....
How-To Make Your Mom Proud Of You (Or Not)
If you have parents, your social activism career just might, with any luck at all, turn out OK. For some social sector activists, parents are hurdles to be pushed out of the way. The poem Journey for Justice repeats an time-worn generational story, "i struggle between...
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