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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

manufacturing and service organizations), reducing their land footprint entails optimizing the utilization of existing built spaces, infrastructure, and parking areas. Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings.

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What’s Essential? Author, CEO, Founder on What Leaders Need To Do Now

Fundraising Leadership

I think we have a culture of magic bullets and immediate gratification. The report continues, AI could reinforce the dominance of wealthier nations in high-value sectors like finance, pharmaceuticals, advance manufacturing, and defense. This corporate cultural shift is one reason Smith and Monahan wrote this book.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

The National Association of Manufacturers, for example, saw its membership fall from over 5,000 businesses to fewer than 1,500. NAM, however, found a successful rebuilding and rebranding strategy in the mid-1930s as it became a central organizing arm of a movement to re-legitimize business in the eyes of the public and discredit the New Deal.

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Report Assesses Impact of Philanthropic “Big Bet” on Employee Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

The second area of gains is in the realm of public policy. The second area of gains is in the realm of public policy. And at the state level, the manufacturing extension partnerships or MEPs. There are additional benefits beyond the direct economic gains. One concerns field knowledge. One concerns field knowledge.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. But the roots of housing profit-making are intertwined with complex social, cultural, and political dynamics. These all are interconnected and dynamic.

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

Advocating for Change Public policy solutions are necessary to narrow the healthcare gap. The democratization of HBPMs has even been good for manufacturers. The HBPM trajectory shows that CGMs can become more accessible, as long corporations dont co-opt them for profit as diet-culture devices rather than life-saving tools.

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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Libraries, universities, cultural centers, public parks and outdoor spaces, and other institutions that helped shape the nation and powered the rise of a thriving white middle class in the mid-20th century were not created by the market or a single sector. Our culture is shaped by businesses. But they never have.