by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 25, 2013
This is a guest blog post written by Nassy Avramidis, Junior Partner at Jeffrey Hollender Partners The other day, I threw a paper cup in the trash. There was no recycling bin in the vicinity and I was in a rush. Normally I am pretty conscious of the environment, but...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 17, 2013
Have you heard about HSBC’s terrorist funding scandals? How about the many banks involved in LIBOR rigging, essentially playing games our money? If you’re an ordinary person, hearing these things was shocking. But let me be clear: it’s not shocking that banks have...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 22, 2013
Recently the Michael Moss in a New York Times Magazine cover story on “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food” examined how food companies have known for decades that salt, sugar and fat are not good for us in the quantities American’s consume...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 20, 2013
Not terribly well. According to a Fall 2013 survey conducted at Rutgers University, the recovery still isn’t so great for the bottom 99% and particularly those under 35. Nearly one-quarter (23%) of all respondents to the survey were laid off from either a full-time or...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 12, 2013
We’ve all seen the news: droughts in the south, fires ravaging our forests in the west, hurricanes on the east coast. North America has been affected by significantly more weather-related extreme events in recent decades, especially in the year 2012, than may other...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 8, 2013
We’ve almost all seen the video that went viral this week, the one that illustrates the gaping wealth inequality that we have in the United States (If you haven’t yet, watch it here). Now that we can grasp the true depth of the problem, what do we do about it? If...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 26, 2013
What if your job, your finances, and your community were all aligned with what you value? SOCAP has created a special one-day event, SOCAP: Soul, to help answer that question and explore how change starts within us. SOCAP: Soul Boston – Social Capital Market’s first...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 18, 2013
This month the World Economic Forum released “The Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013,” that ranks 144 countries, on everything from “Organized Crime,” to the “Quality of Overall Infrastructure,” and the “Protection of Minority Shareholders. #1 represents...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 15, 2013
Guest Blog Post by Perzen Patel of Ennovent, a global organization that accelerates innovations for sustainability in low-income markets. Tropical forests are critical global ecosystems. Not only do they represent an incredible wealth of biodiversity, play an...
