Corporate social responsibility

By pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies.

It can lift up disadvantaged communities - and make your business more competitive.

Joe Ryan turned a small-town cosmetics company into a national powerhouse, making employees happy and shareholders rich in the process. Does it really matter that he cheats on his wife?

A comprehensive new approach to quantifying an organization's footprint on the world.

Nature employs production processes that are surprisingly efficient, environmentally sound—and widely imitable.

I have a colleague who cares passionately about the environment. She worries about global warming, supports policy to reduce carbon emissions, and is militant about keeping the heat down and maintaining the proper tire pressure in her car. Yet her car is an SUV that gets shameful (her words) gas mileage. She lives in a […]

As the 1990s overtake us, public interest in ethics is at a historic high. While the press calls attention to blatant derelictions on Wall Street, in the defense industry, and in the Pentagon, and to questionable activities in the White House, in the attorney general’s office, and in Congress, observers wonder whether our society is […]

Satisfied with doing good, too few foundations work strategically to do better.

Managers should make environmental investments for the same reason they make other investments: because they expect them to deliver positive returns or to reduce risks.

They are prioritizing profits over R&D.

Helping the largest homeless population in the U.S.

The good, the bad, and the surprising from a new report.

Only the Paranoid Survive was the title of Andrew Grove's candid account of the years he headed Intel, leading it from a small maker of computer chips...

What companies can learn from successful recycling efforts.

Aside from tiny Bhutan and their pursuit of Gross National Happiness, every country bases economic policy on the pursuit of endless GDP growth, and companies are right there with them. But common sense tells us that nothing can grow forever, and thus national and corporate-level goals alike have a sizeable blind spot. This recent humorous […]

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And which aren't.

Contrary to the popular misconception that going green is expensive, in a very large range of cases, environmental initiatives don’t raise costs, they lower them — and fast. In operational areas such as facilities (heating, cooling, lighting), fleet, IT, and waste, leading companies continue to find large savings in shockingly simple actions, such as changing […]

Miami is a perfect example.

Greatest Southeast Community Hospital is a 494-bed acute care facility located in southeast Washington, D.C. With revenues of $145 million and 2,650 employees, it is both the largest private employer and the only medical facility in a troubled and isolated community called Anacostia. Nearly a quarter of the area’s residents live below the poverty line, […]