by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 5, 2011
We know that water, forests, soils – all the essentials of life – are becoming depleted and degraded at a dangerous rate. We know that our climate is changing at a speed and on a scale far beyond anything modern humanity has experienced. And we know that the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 15, 2011
As if we didn’t have enough problems. Now we learn, through the Kauffman Foundation’s recently published research, that the ever-expanding financial sector is depleting the talent pool of potential high-growth company founders. While all entrepreneurs need capital and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 25, 2011
For some, the taste of chocolate is bittersweet. Seventy percent of the world’s cocoa comes from small-scale family farmers in West Africa, whose economy is critically dependent on cocoa (revenues account for more than 33 percent of Ghana’s total export earnings and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 23, 2011
Every year, Ethical Corporation, a magazine, organizes a summit to assess the progress that the corporate world has made on its journey toward sustainability. This year, I was invited to speak on the question, “Can a large company be sustainable and grow?” My answer...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 18, 2011
$250 million is a big number. It’s even bigger when you consider that it’s the savings Johnson & Johnson reaped as a result of the company’s investment in employee wellness. While the company has had a very tough year with numerous and costly product recalls,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 13, 2011
It’s been 64 years since George Bailey and his friends and neighbors saved his community bank in the classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Today, the desire and need to save local communities is just as important and urgent as it was in that wonderful...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 11, 2011
America’s largest companies are, more often than not, contributing to a disastrous trend: a decline in job creation. When compared to 2006, in 2009, there was a 25 percent decrease in overall job creation and a 34 percent decrease in job creation among startups. These...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 16, 2011
Out this week is the newest edition of Whole Terrain, which is published by the Environmental Studies Department of Antioch University, New England. The entire issue focuses on the question of “scale.” While the phrase “think globally, act locally” may...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 11, 2011
For close to one-and-a-half hours this week, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis sat patiently, and deeply engaged, as she listened to the challenges and opportunities that small business faces in a country dominated by the influence of large multinational...
