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The NYSE Big StartUpSM: Nationwide Jobs Growth Initiative
Big Business Helping Small Business
From Good-b: We are excited to support and endorse this wonderful initiative. NYSE Euronext has done it again and forged a new path for other big businesses to follow. As the oldest most recognizable stock exchange, this initiative marks an important forward movement to support job growth and small businesses that are the “lifeblood” of the American economy.
“A cross between paradise and paradise.” This is how Mohammed Nasheed of the Maldives describes his nation in Jon Shenk’s powerful new film, The Island President.
Shenk follows President Nasheed over a one-year period, leading up to the Copenhagen climate summit, in a beautiful, courageous, and strangely hopeful story. The film resonates all the more deeply following last month’s coup in the Maldives. The story’s ending — perhaps tragic, perhaps a powerful continuation — is today unfolding in real time.
With carbon footprint and energy independence on everyone’s minds, many marketers are looking to capitalize upon their product’s biobased content. But not all biobased claims are alike. The scientific rigor of an ASTM standard combined with the credibility of the USDA raises the bar for the industry and makes the USDA Certified Biobased label a new source of competitive advantage within the consumer and government procurement markets for brand owners who make the effort to get their biobased products certified.
We never fully know the implications of anything, including our most well-intentioned efforts and apparent failures. Invariably and inevitably, we know less than we think we do. And what is good luck to one, may be bad luck to another, and visa versa. And the time frame and context in which we assess good and bad, beneficial and harmful, is relative and ever-changing.
Emerging markets for environmental financial investment and trading continue to attract significant global investment interest. $8.99 billion was deployed for cleantech investment in global markets up 13% for 2011 according to the Cleantech Venture Network .
Bard’s MBA and companion “Sustainable Business Series” are helping New York City’s business community go green. The Bard Challenge: How do corporate executives and entrepreneurs successfully profit in a socially responsible and environmentally sustainable way? The new Bard MBA answers that question.
Women Effect Investments (WEI) is a field-building initiative of Criterion Ventures that seeks to mobilize more investment dollars toward improving the condition of women and girls worldwide.
Fast Company co-founder Alan Webber discusses what “Small-town USA” economies like his homebase Santa Fe, New Mexico need to rebuild: an entrepreneurial stimulus!
What is “Slow Food” you might ask? It is the organic and eco-friendly answer to Fast Food. Whatever McDonald’s or Taco Bell might be to you – chemically altered, fat infused, artery hardening, and diabetes-causing edible trash – “Slow Food” is the opposite. The healthy alternative to the nation’s carcinogenic diet, slow food is all-organic, nutrition-based and locally sourced.
With the early mantra of “The Tradition Begins”, Kevin Payne and the DC United franchise set two clear goals in 1996. First, play like a premier soccer team. Second, be a respected pillar of the community. Payne explains, “I believe that sports organizations have the ability to influence their communities and members of their communities for the good.”
Crowdfunding is a hot new way to source capital for your early-stage business or growth-stage for-profit enterprise. Traditionally, the amounts for investment are small (up to $10,000), but can provide seed money for innovative initiatives. Crowdfunding is so new, it must pass SEC hurdles before it can really take-off.
They may be rich, but they’re not stupid….
Today’s billionaires are feeling the heat. This past week, seventy billionaires made their way to the Swiss mega-resort town of Davos to strategize the 2012 global economy. Every year at this time, the money elite take their place at the top of the eco-pyramid for an “I’m Richer Than You” power fest in the snow-capped Swiss Alps. It’s the Oscars for the world’s super-rich. Only the prize is being there and perhaps garnering the best party invites.
Seats in corporate boardrooms are opening up for women. Female representation is reaching new levels European countries adopt quotas to push for more women in high-level positions.The policy marks a milestone for female equality in the workplace.
Bhakti Yoga world-renowned spiritual leader, Radhanath Swami teaches American and western capitalists at Milken Insitute, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton how to overcome greed and find peace in service and love.
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What the heck is crowdfunding you may wonder? Crowdfunding is an innovative way to raise funds for your creative project or start-up. Currently, the landscape for investment in small business or start-ups is limited to pledges, donations and barter. The Securities and Exchange Commission did not allow investment in these smaller enterprises until Congress passed a ground-breaking law: The Jobs Act in April 2012
Impact Investment and Impact Trading Poised at the Gate! One of the toughest start-ups to sustain is a social enterprise. SE’s are for-profit businesses that aim to solve social problems: education issues, global poverty, clean water, climate change, world hunger, gender empowerment…just to name a few! The difference between a non-profit entity with a social [...]
Last month, the capital and credit landscape for small business received some serious better-late-than-never CPR. President Obama signed into law the “Jumpstart Our Business Start-ups” (JOBS Act) ushering in a new era for small business investment. Three years after big business was saved from the brink of disaster by government intervention, a small but promising [...]
Raj Sisodia discusses “the 4th Annual Conscious Capitalism Conference” and what participants can take away from this year’s power-packed event!
Interview (12 min) by Good-b’s Monika Mitchell
The fourth annual Conscious Capitalism research conference will be held at Bentley University on May 22 and 23, 2012. Like our previous events, this conference will feature a blend of corporate leaders, academics and thought leaders who will together explore the frontiers of our knowledge on what it means to be a conscious business in the 21st century.
Conversations with collaborators, colleagues and clients resolve tensions, discover solutions and deepen our relationships. My weekly radio program, It’s Just Good Business, features conversations with business and thought leaders in the Conscious Capitalism Movement – drawing out their wisdom and stories about their experience.
The message of forceful and competitive behavior as “unfeminine” represents the cultural ambivalence to women and power. We are taught from the time we can hear, speak and see that women have different rules than men. What is a forceful, competitive, controlling male? Answer: A CEO.
The Union Square Hospitality Group and its founder Danny Meyer have developed a sustainable business model that embodies the Good-b 5 Star model of environmental sustainability, ethical workplace, business integrity, community giving, and purposeful profits. The hugely popular “Shake Shake,” whose flagship outlet stands across the street from Good-b headquarters in Madison Square Park, is a fun and innovative example of how good taste and good business can equal big profits.
At its purest, a strategy is what you want to accomplish as an organization and the steps you need to accomplish it. Strategy, therefore, is important to all organizations because it gives them a context for the everyday decisions that move the organization in the desired direction.
Since launching its ambitious Sustainable Living Plan in 2010, Unilever is buying more sustainable palm oil and cage-free eggs, putting less salt and fat in its tomato sauces and spreads, selling water purifiers to poor people in the global south and rolling out climate-friendly freezers for its ice cream. No big company is doing more to limit its environmental footprint, while improving health and well being and growing its business.
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) entered my radar in a vague way many years ago, but came into clear focus when I heard Jeffrey Smith speak on the topic in 2006. He wrote “Seeds of Deception” and “Genetic Roulette,” both of which discuss the disturbing story of genetically engineered (GE) food.
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