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Where conservative capitalism breaks down: Three primary sources of free market failure

Externalities, Special Report, Sustainable Business / By

Many people criticize policies and elected officials based on strong support for what they believe to be free market capitalism. But do these people actually understand capitalism? What they believe to be capitalism: getting the government off the back of the private sector, is not true free market capitalism. Adam Smith, the man many in the […]

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Love Letter to Banksters

Activism, Climate Change, Corporate Politics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership, Policies / By

First, context:  Homo sapiens is an actively interdependent species of agents with responsibilities as collaborative participants in this web of life: all our destinies are intertwined.  There is, in any healthy community a social contract, and its acknowledgement is emerging more and more vocally from our society’s closets and into our front yard again.  Thank

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Conflict Minerals: Where Dodd-Frank, The Enough Project and Global Witness Went Wrong

Activism, International, Supply Chain, Sustainable Business, Uncategorized / By

It seemed easy and straightforward enough. Fighting in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between a variety of warring factions has resulted in the death, rape and displacement of many in the region. Based on most accounts upwards of 5.4 million people died during the official war period of 1998-2003 and some 2.7

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Tea Party Accelerates Efficient Light Bulb Rollback

Corporate Social Responsibility, Energy / By

So, the CSR skeptics in the US decry the private sector’s role in market failures arguing that only the government has the capacity and the purview to solve (or at least mitigate) externalities like poor energy efficiency. The recent chicanery surrounding energy/climate reform and now light bulbs are illuminating examples of why we cannot sit

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Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield, Urges MBA Students to Ask Why Not?

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My colleague, Lane Jost, did an amazing job covering the 2010 Net Impact Conference in Ann Arbor this weekend.  As a first time Net Impact Conference attendee, I wore the hat of a MBA student instead of a reporter following the Corporate Impact Track and learning as much as I could about integrating CSR concepts

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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Simply Reframe Friedman, Smith?

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Dr. Aneel Karnani Dr. Aneel Karnani, whose August WSJ op/ed (“The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility”) argued that CSR has no relevance in today’s global business world, was provided with an ample opportunity yesterday to clarify his thesis along with a panel of CSR experts and business journalists. “CSR and the Role of Business Today”

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