We know that soldiers who come home from violent battles as well as people who live in places in conflict can suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. But what we usually don’t know is that war veterans and war zone inhabitants ...
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Listen to this Exclusive Interview with Psychologist, Dr. Brian King on Overcoming the Habit of Poverty! Originally from New York, Dr Brian King started his “life of comedy” while attending preschool in Tampa, Florida. In his own 4th-grade words “behind ...
Read More »Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World
Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the
Read More »Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World
Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the
Read More »Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World
Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the
Read More »Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World
Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the
Read More »Dictators Make Good Bosses?
In a Q&A with Inc.com, OfficeMax founder argues that consensus-building is over-rated. Sometimes a leader just has to decide
Read More »Dictators Make Good Bosses?
In a Q&A with Inc.com, OfficeMax founder argues that consensus-building is over-rated. Sometimes a leader just has to decide. Michael Feuer started OfficeMax from scratch in 1988, and built the office-supply chain into a 1,000-store behemoth before selling it to Boise Cascade Corp.
Read More »Why Social Impact Investing Is A Crock
Over the last decade the world of do-gooding has seemingly been taken over by MBAs. Social entrepreneurship, a field encompassing both mission-driven businesses and entrepreneurial nonprofits, professes to bring the efficiency, rigor, and cold, hard metrics of business to the most important causes on the planet.
Read More »Using Data To Determine The Most Effective Use Of Your $50 Donation
Economist Dean Karlan's new book looks at what works and what doesn't work in the fight against global poverty.
Read More »The Rise Of Shared Ownership And The Fall Of Business As Usual
A new model in Cleveland--in which workers own companies that are supported by the city's big businesses--has the potential to change the economics of the city and its workers. There are two things in which I believe strongly: that business is at the root of our economic challenges and that business is at the heart of the solution to those challenges
Read More »Forget Carbon Footprints: Coke, SABMiller Analyze Their Poverty Footprints
Carbon and water footprint measurements have become almost commonplace among large corporations, at least in part because of prodding from organizations like the Carbon Disclosure Project . But these measurements only tell part of the story
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