Topic: General Atlantic LLC

Social Entrepreneurship, the Creativity Economy, and Reciprocity: Investing in a Better World

  Since 1987, Echoing Green has provided seed funding and support to more than 450 social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for social change in order to launch groundbreaking organizations around the world. Echoing Green was ...READ»

Fast 50 2008: AKQA

In the annals of advertising history, 2007 will be remembered as the year of the digital acquisition frenzy. Ad holding companies Publicis and WPP, along with tech companies like Microsoft, spent billions of dollars scooping up the ...READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The World's Most Innovative Companies
• The Faces and Voices of Google

How Do Fast Companies Work Now?

Imagine a company started by the best-connected investment bank in the world, by a leading management-consulting firm, and by one of the top venture-capital firms. Give it $300 million -- and set it loose to reinvent big business.READ»

Beyond Subprime: What Business People Can Do to Invest in Communities

  “Community-development banks, credit unions, and other CDFIs – a mixture of faith-based and secular, for-profit and not-for-profit organizations – constitute what might be called the ‘ethical subprime lending’ industry. ...READ»

Investing in Social Change

Echoing Green is a nonprofit innovator that underwrites social entrepreneurs -- and builds a supporting community.READ»

What Is the State of the New Economy?

Our third annual report on the State of the New Economy.READ»

Close Encounters of the Dotcom

By chronicling the rise and fall of govWorks.com, "Startup.com" captures on film an era of spite, pity, and rampant excess that left the landscape littered with broken dreams. But, hey, it sure was fun while it lasted.READ»

The World's Most Innovative Companies

We canvassed the experts, analyzed the products, and crunched the numbers. From visionary upstarts to storied stalwarts, here are companies that dazzle with new ideas -- and prove beyond a doubt how business is a force for change. We call them the Fast 50.READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The Faces and Voices of Google
• Slideshow: The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies