Self-interest is the fundamental driver for investors in the "saving the world" business. Companies want to help educate people because educated people will get jobs, make money, and buy products. New ideas about how to make that happen emerged recently at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York. READ»
The good news is that many of us will live to be over 100 years old. The challenge will be--and already is--preparing ourselves for new jobs as technology advances and markets change. This requires workforce training and education on ...READ»
Founded in 1972, BRAC reaches 138 million of the poorest people in nine countries in Asia and Africa. Its mission is to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease, and social injustice. Its annual operating budget is half a billion dollars. READ»
The year started off with a bang with accountability questions related to Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation. From April on, people berated BP and cringed as the CEO told us one thing about the environmental and economic damage ...READ»
Great ideas often come from connecting things that have not been connected before. But as companies grow bigger and divide themselves into businesses and divisions, maintaining the cross-filtering of idea-sparking information becomes unwieldy.READ»
"Why do business people on nonprofit boards make decisions they'd never make on behalf of their companies?" This was one of the intriguing questions when Matthew Bishop interviewed Nancy Lublin. Boards must fulfill their oversight responsibilities, but that alone does not build a vibrant and robust organization.READ»
"The government's policy on energy in the United States is the most stupid, idiotic, inconsistent, crazy policy you could imagine," said Michael Garland, CEO of wind-powerhouse Pattern Energy Group. Garland spoke at the Renewable ...READ»
"What struck me most today was Geoffrey Canada's and others' emphasis on the importance of data," observed Matthew Bishop, U.S. Business Editor of The Economist, and author, Philanthrocapitalism, in reference to today's tenth annual ...READ»
That clown wouldn't be smiling if he were backpacking through Europe right now. The Big Mac is more than a dollar more over there than in America, the Economist reports. Their findings are based on an annual "burgernomics" survey ...READ»
