I’m wrapping up Social Business Venture week with a look at funding options for the breed of businesses that generate profits but exist primarily to fulfill a social need. The legal structure of your business should take into account how you plan to operate and earn revenue. Neither of these decisions can be taken lightly […]
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Why Investing Smartly Means Choosing Companies With Happy Employees
How does good beget good? And what are you doing to tip the domino? In his book, The HIP Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World, R. Paul Herman lists employee satisfaction as an indicator of strong investment returns. He points to Wharton finance professor Alex Edmans’ work identifying a “direct positive correlation over […]
How Nike, Walmart and Cisco Are Being More HIP and Growing Profits With Purpose–With R. Paul Herman
In between profiteering and starry-eyed do-gooding is a place where values can incur value. This is the place of Human Impact + Profit (HIP), a methodology created by R. Paul Herman that aims to help investors and businesses make money while solving key human needs. Companies that deliver human impact and profit can gain a magic […]
How He Turned His 20 Years on Wall Street Into a Hub for Impact Investing –with Mike Van Patten
Michael Van Patten used to give out his entire allowance when he lived in Ecuador during high school. This went against common practice to ignore people with their hands and pretend they weren’t there. The poverty he saw stuck with him for years but didn’t affect the way he made a living, until recently. Click the […]
‘What’s the Social Compensation Package?’ 5 Ways to Attract Talent Without the Checkbook
Employee compensation packages are dropping in financial value–but this time, it’s not because of the recession alone. From MBAs to college graduates, potential employees are looking for more than stock options and dental care from their employers. In “Saving the World at Work” Tim Sanders calls this “Social Compensation–the purpose that comes with the paycheck.” […]
Green Banks: A New Kind of Socially Responsible Investing
Socially responsible investing, which now makes up 10 percent of overall investments in the U.S. market, has a new sub-segment, the “green” bank. Peter Liu founded the first explicitly green bank in the United States to fit a market opportunity as much as a social one. “We believe that we are evolving from what was […]
I'm Olivia Khalili. I created Cause Capitalism to show you how to grow your business by incorporating a social mission. I've worked extensively with both nonprofits and for-profits. I found that when you combine the two, you grow your profits, impassion all your stakeholders and do good in the world. Read more.
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