by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 15, 2010
10 Things I’ve Learned About What It Takes to Build a Revolutionary Responsible Company 1 ) The only real brand of responsibility is holistic and systemic—not compartmentalized. CR only works when it is strategic not programmatic and driven from both the top...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 2, 2010
In the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, the American economy experienced long periods of prosperity, in which GDP growth performed quite well. At the same time, inequality rose rapidly. Yet rather than seeking to correct the inequality through redistributive policies,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Dec 2, 2010
“Exuberance made a comeback this year at Josh Koplewicz’s annual Halloween party. More than 1,000 people packed into a 6,000-square-foot space at the Good Units night club in Manhattan, a substantially larger crowd than in the last several years. The open bar was...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 29, 2010
More than two decades ago, I founded Seventh Generation with the idea of creating a different way of doing business. Since then, the company has established new benchmarks for ethical and sustainable corporate behavior, grounded in the principles of employee...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 2, 2010
Thomas Friedman wrote several weeks ago about our interconnected yet uncertain future. “In a world where our demand for Chinese-made sneakers produces pollution that melts South America’s glaciers, in a world where Greek tax-evasion can weaken the euro,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 1, 2010
We live in an endlessly interconnected world but every day all too many of us don’t consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations yet alone the next six, five, four, three, two, or even one. Historians will write about ours as the generation...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 28, 2010
Here’s a retailing truth: You can’t be in the business of selling consumer products without thinking about Walmart. The merchandising behemoth sells so much of what so many North Americans buy — from groceries to tires — that to not seek it as...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 28, 2010
The Harvard Business Review has consistently tackled the many issues related to business and sustainability, and done it from a more deeply strategic perspective than most others. David A. Lubin and Daniel C. Esty’s recent article on The Sustainability...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 13, 2010
When co-author Bill Breen and I wrote our new book, The Responsibility Revolution, we intended it to function as a how-to manual that would introduce the corporate community to the new brand of corporate responsibility that’s now emerging at renegade companies...
