Ashoka Fellow Amory Lovins, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute: "The most effective thing to do ... [+] about climate change is using energy efficiently." Amory Lovins On this Earth Day, we reflect
Ira Hellman, Prudential Key Takeaways • Don’t let emotions rule your decisions. • Stay invested (and diversified) for the eventual rebounds. • A financial professional can put the headlines in perspective. The coronavirus-infected stock market has left investors everywhere feeling anxious and uncertain. Here are seven things to consider: 1. Bulls are usually stronger than … Continue reading 7 Ways to Handle Investment Volatility
The B Corp Community Stands Together Through Challenges to Build a Brighter Economic Future(Photo courtesy B Local PDX)This is a personal perspective from an employee at B Lab, the nonprofit behind Certified B Corporations. In this series, we invite in...
(Photo by Dustan Woodhouse on Unsplash)As a Sustainable Leader, B Corp Creates Low-Impact Plastic Products with Proceeds Aiding Ocean-Cleanup NonprofitsGrowing up in suburban Western Massachusetts, Eric Hudson always enjoyed the great outdoors. So alth...
By WPO Board Chair Margery Kraus, Diplomatic Courier As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, nations are scrambling to protect their population and industries from the potentially devastating socioeconomic effects of the virus. Governments are increasingly restricting travel—domestic and international—to reduce contagion. According to Pew Research Center, more than 90 percent of the world’s … Continue reading Global Problems Need Global Solutions
Turn on any news channel right now and the headlines are dominated by the health and economic devastation inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s no denying the urgency of this moment, and the imprint it will leave on our lives and organizations....
Journalist Mehmet Atakan Foça started Teyit (“confirmation” in Turkish) in 2016 to address misinformation propagated by media organizations and social media users. We spoke with him this week to learn
Journalist and social entrepreneur Mehmet Atakan Foça shares how the pandemic has made the problem of misinformation visible to everyone.
B The Change Weekly: April 17, 2020(Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash)Delivered on Fridays, B the Change Weekly delivers the most important and most relevant stories about people using business as a force for good. The newsletter features a weekly no...
(Photo by Clint Adair on Unsplash)Suddenly Separate? B Corps Find New Methods for Professional Conversations, Resilience and SafetyThe coronavirus produced a sudden workplace shift for many of us. As stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines...
By Geri Stengel, Forbes Between 2007 to 2012 — the period before and after the Great Recession — the number of women-owned businesses jumped 27% while privately held businesses grew only 3.3%, according to the Survey of Business Owners by the Census. Average revenues for women’s businesses decreased from $154,300 in 2007 to $143,700 in 2012 and … Continue reading How To Prevent The Pandemic From Taking A Greater Toll On Women Entrepreneurs
Here’s a B for Boeing. One for Bank of America, too. And one for all the other mega-corporations that are elbowing at the table for billions in government Bailouts (with a capital B) via the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act.At...
Leading with Love: The We The Change Community Response to the Coronavirus Crisis(Photo by Alex Motoc on Unsplash)We The Change, a Certified B Corp Women CEOs initiative, has pledged to work internationally with Mujeres B to strive toward a world that ...
How Small and Big Changes Can Make a Cumulative DifferenceBy Steve Walls and Judith WallsTo date, some companies’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been to email their database, telling consumers and other stakeholders to “Stay Home, Stay Safe.” Th...
Whether you now start your workday by logging in from home or by heading out to provide an essential public service, the daily on-the-job realities have changed for each of us. While change and uncertainty dominate now, eventually a new “normal” will e...