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EDITOR’S NOTE: Maria Tranquilli is the new Executive Director of the Common Mission Project, an international organization that engages students, educators, government organizations, and the Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Maria Tranquilli
“ My great-great grandfather spent the first half of his life making money, and the second half of his life, giving it away - and the family has continued a strong tradition of both business and Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Cristina Maria Cruz Serrano , Rachida Justo and Jeanne Roche
Kaela Hammerstrom Combs is the second generation to run a national organization founded by her mother decades ago -- Blessings in a Backpack, which works through schools to distribute backpacks Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Conventional business wisdom holds that innovation comes from smart strategizing inside the company. However, business innovations are often prompted by factors outside of a company. Increasingly, Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Theodore L. Waldron , James C Wetherbe , Chad Navis , Elizabeth Karam and Gideon Markman
In January 2021 I joined the Great Resignation and took an early retirement from the University of Minnesota (UMN). I had spent 12 years there teaching social entrepreneurship and managing Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Fred Rose
Ford, Estee Lauder, Hyatt. What do these names have in common? For starters, they are behind some of the largest family firms in the world. But they are also associated with a revolution in finance Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Author: Jeanne Roche
Consumers, policymakers and society at large are caring more and more about businesses' commitment to loftier causes than just making money, such as social justice, the environment, and the welfare Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Hans Rawhouser , Michael Cummings and Scott Newbert
More than 2 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water, and each year more than 1 million people die because of water-related diseases. These facts can make life unbearable for affected Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Coraima Yanez , Jennifer Long and Shilpa Alva
Since the mid-1970s, microfinance has been seen as a way to lift people in emerging economies out of poverty by providing them access to financial services, particularly microcredit. Micro-loans are Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Pushan Dutt , Jasjit Singh and Arzi Adbi
Climate change, income inequality, injustice and other vexing social and environmental challenges are changing our thinking and the way businesses operate. As social media helps good and bad news Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Ozlem Ogutveren Gonul and Zuhal Senyuva