Category: Companies that Care

“Harvard Business School Professors wrote an article called “Creating Shared Value”. There’s a new way of thinking about how businesses can serve. Philanthropy is the old way. Philanthropy is about sharing wealth that has already been created. A better way is to create wealth is by serving. In creating shared value… we’re going to create […]

  For years, I’ve been thinking about changing corporate and workplace landscape. It recently was Father’s Day, and I know how our dads, and other providers  (maybe that’s YOU!) are and have been affected by these changes, by the weight of job and family obligations, as well as the drive to succeed, make a contribution, […]

A “Real Company” example of putting the 3 P’s:  people, planet AND profit (the “triple bottom line”) into action in business: TS Designs is a custom wholesale t-shirt printing company in textile industry hub in NC, who didn’t want to move business overseas, “We didn’t want to outsource, lay people off then turn around and […]

As you may have read (or if you haven’t, start with this post) I’m interested in “CSR” (corporate social responsibility), “B-corps” (businesses incorporated legally to have the “3 P’s” as their bottom line: people, planet AND profit) both professionally, in working with HR and other professionals leading their companies to embrace these values & business […]

  “Business is a powerful force for positive social change. One of the ways to think about that is that we’ve seen business be a force for negative social change many times, and we’ve gotten to the place where we’re not surprised by that anymore. A Bangladeshi factory collapses and 1000 people die, and it’s […]