Financial Times

Smart Giving: Look Who's on the Board

Alice Korngold — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:35:31 -0400

Whether you're an individual, company or foundation, making a significant contribution, you can get a good idea of an organization's vitality and prospects for success by taking a look at who's on the board.

Sex and the Boardroom

Alice Korngold — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:00:08 -0400

“Sex and the Boardroom: Is power the ultimate aphrodisiac?” screams from the tip top of the front page of today’s Financial Times i

Skip Google, and Try These Search Engines

Chris Dannen — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:29:15 -0400

If Google had a dollar for every competitor that was hyped to defeat it, the search giant would be worth a hundred billion. And well, it is. Live Search, Cuil, Mahalo, whatever--Google only feels luckier as the field grows.

But two more search engines emerged recently that seem to believe that to penetrate the search market, you don't have to reinvent the concept; you just need to make improvements where an unwieldier competitor can't.

$5 Solar Powered Kyoto Box Wins HP Climate Change Challenge

Ariel Schwartz — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:12:29 -0400

John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today thanks to an ultra-cheap and simple design with the potential to provide cooked food and clean water to billions. The $5 solar-powered consists of a black inner cardboard box and a silver foil-covered outer box that concentrate enough heat to cook food and boil water.

Climate Change Competition Finalists Compete for HP-Sponsored Prize

Ariel Schwartz — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:15:55 -0400

Update: John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today. You can read more about it here.

The CSR Debate

kevin moss — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:55:54 -0500

In his recent column in The Financial Times, Stefan Stern implied that it is okay for businesses to

Will Corporate Social Responsibility Survive the Financial Market Implosion?

Karma Martell — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:26:18 -0400

Financial Times columnist Adam Jones asks if CSR will wither and die in light of the current crisis on Wall Street. Read his blog column here.

It's the perfect "legit" excuse to take a pencil through CSR initiatives in the budget and label them as 'unnecessary spending" in this time of uncertaintly and belt-tightening.