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4 sustainable business trends to look out for in 2019
The news leading up to this week’s World Economic Forum has been sobering. Global carbon emissions hit an all-time high last year. The wealth gap between the poor and the global elite continues to...
View ArticleNo more secret deals
There’s something powerful about revealing something hidden. Take “unboxing” videos, the latest rage on YouTube. They’re so popular that a 7-year-old boy made $22 million last year from opening and...
View ArticleRoom to improve: Why food and beverage companies need to push for better...
If you’re anything like me, your New Year’s resolution to eat healthy might just be looking a bit more “aspirational” as spring approaches. Choosing a more balanced diet is a challenge for many of...
View ArticleInside the Johnson & Johnson shareholders meeting
Buying shares in drug behemoths may seem like an odd way to fight poverty. But as it turns out, it’s a powerful way to speak directly to the leaders of some of the world’s biggest companies. That’s...
View ArticleReimagining Amazon’s sustainability agenda
Co-written with Diana Kearney, an advocacy advisor at Oxfam America, and Paloma Muñoz, director of the Investor Alliance for Human Rights. We almost didn’t get in. Back in late May, Amazon shareholders...
View ArticleAre US corporations about to change their ways?
You know we live in strange times when America’s top CEOs are refuting the shareholder capitalism model. That is what happened this week when the Business Roundtable—an association of chief executive...
View ArticleIn 2020, Dignity for All means everyone deserves a seat at the table
Every day, we see the fate of people around the world affected by how their governments respond to an essential set of questions. Who matters? Whose voice is heard and whose is dismissed? Who is part...
View ArticleWe need a new business case for the SDGs
So the ritual starts again. The hotel suites are booked, the dinners organized, the panels are set. It’s UN General Assembly (UNGA) week, and hundreds of companies will arrive in New York to...
View ArticleTo change the world, business must share its profits and power
This year’s UN General Assembly is finally here, and pledges to once again achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have already begun. Much of this activity is focused on the private sector, a...
View ArticleWhat do Amazon and Whole Foods’ new supplier standards mean for workers?
Over the past two years, Oxfam has uncovered evidence of human rights abuses in the Whole Foods supply chain around the world—from Thailand to North Carolina. We’ve heard stories of terrible working...
View ArticleThis is what democracy looks like
One Saturday morning last month, in the basement of a neighborhood public library, I saw just what democracy looks like. I came to testify at a public meeting of the Massachusetts Citizens Commission,...
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