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Avoid a Sustainability Flop By Ditching ‘Buy-In’

6:27 pm • Categories: Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Involvement • by

Sustainability need to be championed from the top level, but employees also need to care about it or any efforts will quickly flop. Employee (or community or consumer) buy-in happens when you’re brought-in. It’s not about positioning your strategy, it’s about involving people in it.  Here’s how three different companies, eBay, GoLite and ConAgra, use their employees […]

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Start with $10K, Grow the Pie, Sell to eBay–with Siddharth Sanghvi

9:20 pm • Categories: Businesses, Interviews, Podcast • by

The last part of this post’s title should be Provide Women with Access to Capital.  This is the success story of a social enterprise created from a market opportunity, which proved its mettle by serving artisans in developing countries and attracting American companies like Disney, Hallmark, Whole Foods, and ultimately eBay.  Last week World of […]

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How Shopping Could Help to Save the Planet – With eBay’s Amy Skoczlas Cole

11:17 am • Categories: Commercial & Nonprofit Partnerships, Employee Involvement, Interviews • by

Fresh off her talk at the New Models of Social Responsibility summit, Amy Skoczlas Cole, director of The eBay Green Team, took some time to answer my questions about creating a replicable program, optimizing employee engagement and saving the planet through shopping. As the director of The eBay Green Team, Amy works to engage eBay’s […]

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