How to Reinvent Capitalism via Creating Shared Value?

Nestle is very clear on what it intends to achieve – find ways and methods by which businesses can play a … More

Pushing for Full Corporate Accountability at RIO+ 20 – NATURAL CAPITAL DECLARATION

GUEST POST: By Dr Joël Houdet, Integrated Sustainability Services, South Africa The Natural Capital Declaration was released on June 20th … More

“Voluntary” Principles of Sustainable Insurance launched at Rio+20

UNEP’s Finance Initiative today launched the Principles for Sustainable Insurance on the eve of the Rio+20 Conference. The launch marks … More

“Inclusive Wealth Report 2012” launched at Rio+20

We already knew that GDP has always been a poor indicator of quality of air, water, health, leisure or the … More

Entering Rio+20 with vague Rio principles will give vague results

Some time ago I wrote about why we continue to see the unsatisfactoriness of the Rio declaration. Now that we … More

23 things they didn’t tell you about Capitalism

Capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the others – W. Churchill I recently listened to a podcast … More

Microcredit -II: KIVA – Online lending platform

KIVA is not a typical microfinance institution but an online platform that connects people who want to lend microloans of as … More

Microcredit instituitions and their impact – I

(The following is a 3 part series summarized paper done as part of the Green MBA program at Anaheim University by … More

Decoupling GDP and Happiness

Can GDP and happines be decoupled? Does economic growth equal happiness? These are the questions that economists have been toying around … More

Growth policies that trigger Green Economy – IV (India)

INDIA: Economic Growth in the Green sector through policy integration (This article is the last in the 4 part series of … More

Growth policies that trigger Green Economy – III (China)

China: Ambitious targets for the Greener world (This article continues in the 4 part series of Policies for Green … More

Growth policies that trigger Green economy – II (Japan)

(This article continues in the 4 part series of Policies for Green economy in USA, Japan, China, India by Rangika, … More

Growth policies that trigger Green Economy – I (USA)

-:By Rangika Samaraweera, Gan Shu, Nathan Small, Pankaj Arora:- What kind of government policies can trigger economic growth in the … More

Free Markets & Fair Trade

The current system of free markets has been designed to work well in the countries with stable democratic governments having … More

Selling beyond the poor

Co-creation, Embedded Innovation: Start small, fail small, Learn BIG
Stu Hart moves beyond selling to the poor to co-venturing in business with the poor – the onset of BOP 2.0

Opportunities at the intersection of Social sector and Business

The world is currently experiencing a fundamental shift in the way we live. The only people who can feel this … More

Is Capitalism Sustainable w/o a major move to Triple Bottom Line for business world?

To answer this question, we need to first define what sustainable really means – in simple terms, to leave the … More