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Voluntary Pricing Generates Change & Profits

1:35 pm • Categories: Business Models, Employee Involvement • by

UPDATE: I’ll be interviewing Denise Cerreta on Monday. Check back next week to hear about her experiences with One World Cafe. There are no prices or fixed menus at One World Cafe in Salt Lake City, Utah. Customers choose their portion sizes and pay what they deem fit. The “community kitchen” is One World Cafe’s […]

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Reward Yourself (and Your Business will Profit)

4:02 pm • Categories: Business Models, Employee Involvement • by

Make it into a contest or promised prize. Everybody loves a goal. Companies know this as incentivizing, employees as a performance-based financial reward, and Burt’s Bees as the only way of doing business.  Burt’s Bees, a manufacturer of natural beauty products, believes that if companies are socially responsible, they will attract profit. Burt’s Bees gets […]

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Pro Bono Work Grows Wings at Deloitte

10:17 am • Categories: Business Models, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Involvement, SRI • by

As is common practice with large firms, Deloitte provides pro bono services to local communities. Employees of the consulting giant also volunteer their time and skills with area nonprofits. It’s a pretty good one-two punch as big-name corporate responsibility goes. Deloitte, however, saw opportunity to leverage a greater impact. Welcome philanthropy, in the form of […]

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Can Corporations Replace Philanthropies?

1:29 pm • Categories: Business Models, Employee Involvement, Trends • by

Will philanthropy be displaced by business? Marc Benioff, of Salesforce.com and Compassionate Capitalism, wrote a great piece on how to bridge the disconnect between corporate profits and cause.  He argues that socially responsibly initiatives are created in isolation from the corporate mission. An ‘integrated corporation’ creates value in its local community or global network as […]

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Timberland Attaches “Nutritional Label”

3:42 pm • Categories: Business Models, Employee Involvement • by

The Timberland Co.’s nutritional label, found on shoe and boot packaging, reports on the brand’s social and environmental impact. The label-displayed on 30 million shoe boxes a year-provides information on where the footwear was made, how much energy was consumed to produce it and how much renewable energy Timberland uses. Inside the boxes are inserts, […]

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