GWO gathering builds knowledge, support for “fourth sector” businesses combining profit, social benefits; sector seen as growing at twice rate of profit-only entities
CONFERENCE NOTES: PART ONE / PART TWO / PART THREE / BACKGROUND WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some 200 scholars, public officials, researchers, funders and practitioners — supported by the Federal Reserve ...
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ARLINGTON, Va. – A multi-partisan spectrum of business, policy and public groups is seeking common ground on changes to the U.S. economic system affecting the regulation and governance of corporations, ...
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Rules Change collaborator’s research helping corporations to see “materiality” of environmental, social metrics
How to get the world’s corporations to broaden the idea of what is “material” to their business success and responsibility is the the subject of a new paper by Rules ...
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Aspen, Brookings, Drucker working behind-the-scenes to push executives to reinvent American-style capitalism
In boardrooms and think tanks, private efforts are brewing – largely behind-the-scenes at this point — to bring America’s corporate leaders to the realization that they must help reinvent American ...
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Drucker Institute mulls starting “long-termism movement; seeks guidance on whether to participate in forum on topic
A common view of economic theorists and political activists is that public companies respond to pressure for ever-rising quarterly earnings with management decisions that underweight the corporation’s impact on long-term ...
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Can “The Age of Empathy” help us achieve rules change?
British-based philosopher and sociologist Roman Krznaric advises Oxfam and the United Nations on the nature of “empathy,” and in a blog-essay “Six Habits of Highly Empathetic People” he provides some ...
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Politically independent college students favor structural reforms to reduce partisanship, N.C. poll finds
If the opinions of a sample of U.S. college students are to be trusted, American politics will need to become decidedly less partisan in the decades ahead. That’s according to ...
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RC-DC will feature responsible ‘hackathon’ to gather corporate social and environmental performance data
A new effort to make open — and free to the public — environmental, social and governance records of U.S. and global corporations will launch at Rules Change-The DC Gathering. ...
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