by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 2, 2007
Now that’s a little harsh, but Ben Elgin’s Business Week cover story, “Little Green Lies”, uncovered a wealth of interesting information that led to a number of erroneous conclusions resulting from a lack of context and the highly selective use of...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Oct 1, 2007
Imagine 400 CEOs representing Walmart’s largest vendors all sitting in one room pondering the future of sustainability. Aside from representing trillions of dollars in market value, this group could change the course of history. As I observed from the third row of...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 8, 2007
In the August 5, 2007 New York Times Book review of Robert H. Frank’s new book FALLING BEHIND: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class, Daniel Gross the reviewer notes: Knowing that Steve Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group made almost $400 million last year, or...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 7, 2007
Music drifts into our back yard from the benefit party almost one mile away and it’s only 5:00 pm. This is the land of benefits; almost every Democratic candidate for President comes to the Hamptons in the summer to raise money. Last night we attended two parties, to...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 1, 2007
Higher wages benefit business by increasing consumer purchasing power, reducing costly employee turnover, raising productivity, improving product quality, customer satisfaction and company reputation. Today’s minimum wage workers have less buying power than...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 1, 2007
I just finished reading Paul Hawken’s new book “Blessed Unrest.” It is a beautifully written, extensively researched, deeply thoughtful but in the end-unsatisfying read. While Hawken talks convincing about the conversion of the environmental/sustainability movement...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 1, 2007
Several months ago the UK based Employee Ownership organization published an exceptionally important and insightful report about the benefits of employee owned companies. The report has valuable insights for all businesses and I highly recommend it. A few highlights...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 6, 2007
Yesterday the Financial Times reported “Nuns shocked at being on Wal-Mart’s list of threats. A community of Benedictine nuns based in Texas has called on Wal-Mart to give further details of how they came to appear on a list of potential threats to the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 5, 2007
This weeks New Yorker Magazine (4/2/07) features a long negative story about Wal-Mart’s effort to “co-opt liberals.” This is another in the series of good news/bad news stories that both helps and plagues the company. After nearly a year of this endless seesaw one...
