Topic: Guatemala

A Winner in Haiti

Recently named TED Fellow Peter Hass, Founder and CEO of the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) announced the winner of AIDG’s Haiti business plan competition.   “We are excited to invest in COOPEN, a ...READ»

Surf the Web for a Change

It's never been easier to make a difference on behalf of an issue you care about. You can use the Web to browse for a good cause, to donate money for good works, or to serve as a virtual volunteer. Social change is just a click away.READ»

Power to the People

AES is big, rich - and unlike any company you've ever seen. It builds power plants by handing power to workers on the front lines. Its radical business model has worked wonders in the United States. Can it also work in Hungary, China, and Brazil?READ»

Changing the World of Senior Care

I was in Orlando yesterday speaking to the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives and got out of Florida just ahead of the hurricane. (Kind of a metaphor for my life, now that I think about it.) Be that as it may... Since ...READ»

How Innovative Leadership Impacts Customer Experience - Part 1

We've talked a lot about innovative leadership. As an experience architect, I'm also interested in how innovative leadership is reflected in customer experience. Let me hear from you on this one. I'll start us off by contributing ...READ»

Social Responsibility in Guatemala

The reason I took several weeks off from my weekly Fast Company blog was that I was traveling in Guatemala If you'll allow me the hubris of sharing an outsider's perspective after spending just a few weeks there, I'd like to make ...READ»

Good Enough to Eat

How seven execs are making the food supply cleaner, greener, and healthier.READ»

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The Green Monster

A “Do Gooder” has started to look very different among the generations. Contributing to the community might mean writing a hefty check at a charity gala to one employee, while another might consider building houses in Guatemala. ...READ»

As Travel Gets Tougher...Online Gets Easier

Today, I went with my daughter all the way across the state to the Spanish Consulate, so she could begin the process of getting her papers in order for spring semester abroad. And it got me thinking...I love travel. I love visiting ...READ»

7. Tasty Trader

Previous | Next When you want the best, you go to the source. John Scharffenberger is part of the vanguard of high-end chocolatiers in America who are reeducating palates numbed by eons of cheap milk chocolate. But as a ...READ»

MIT Students Engineer Pedal-Powered Washing Machine

A group of enterprising MIT students has come up with a novel way for developing countries to gain access to washing machines: pedal power.   MIT's pedal-powered washing machine, the product of four years of research, is made up ...READ»

Milan Report: The Hand Strikes Back

At this year’s furniture fair, the stitched and artisanal rally against mass production.READ»

Don't Peel Away Old Billboards. Turn Them Into Handbags

Furniture maker Artecnica has teamed up with TBWA/Chiat/Day to create accessories from the ad-industry's refuse.READ»

Spare Change?

While I was unable to participate in Pegasus Communications' Systems Thinking in Action conference, Changing Our Organizations to Change the World, earlier this month, I'm glad that the organization has made the mind maps of the ...READ»

Innovation: LEARN from Starbucks - Too Much of a Good Thing?

When it comes to customer experience, reliable rarely means exceptional. This is especially true at a Starbucks store. With all due respect to the dedicated evangelists of the ubiquitous company, having a cup of coffee can either be ...READ»

social justice - Adam Kahane

"I believe that we have a much greater capacity to shape the future than we allow ourselves to think."READ»

Fast Pack 1999

For the second year in a row, we invited some of the smartest people we know to consider four of the toughest questions around. Fast Company celebrates its third anniversary with the ultimate business round table.READ»

Family Values

Thanks to the punishing demands of the new economy, marriage has become more complex, more stressful, and more difficult. These couples have designed marriages that work.READ»

With Justice for All?

Labor organizer Jane McAlevey is forcing companies in Connecticut's ultraprosperous Fairfield County to confront a moral challenge that they would prefer to ignore -- and, in the process, she is forcing all of us to confront our personal sense of justice.READ»

Strategic Innovation: The Children's Hospital at Montefiore

Dr. Irwin Redlener has spent his career devising solutions to large-scale problems of health care for disenfranchised children. The latest expression of his single-minded agenda combines excellence in pediatric care with cutting-edge design, the latest technology, and the worldview of Carl Sagan.READ»

Trade Gap

Do we need to close the trade gap -- or clothe it? The Gap's suppliers indicate just how widespread the global economy is.READ»

In Tune With the Environment

How a guitar maker got eco-friendly -- out of sheer self-interest.READ»

Java Man

As one of only 48 certified coffee graders in the country, Ed Faubert sits at the center of a $19 billion industry. READ»

No Loose Screws

A new model for local business development.READ»

Prime Partners: Springboard Forward

President: Elliott Brown www.springboardforward.org Grade: A- Winner's Statement Alvaro Conde's heart used to sink every morning when he began his commute to work. The job he had landed after emigrating from Guatemala wasn't ...READ»