WHO changes the rules? All of us
This is where the Rules Change Project comes in. It began in 2013, in Amherst, Mass., when a small group gathered to consider how to respond to the challenge of ...
Read MoreHOW do we change the rules? Spotlighting “giraffes” at work
We need to take time to examine how the rules of capitalism and free markets — formal and informal – have evolved over the last 40 years. One approach is ...
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VIDEO: From civil rights to Russia to America’s economy — Hedrick Smith seeks to help “Reclaim the American Dream”
(Watch Smith’s TEDx Talk at Orcas Island (posted April 1, 2015) WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Hedrick Smith’s long journalism career began covering civil rights in the American South, traversed to dissecting ...
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BOOK: The “myth” of shareholder primacy stands at the brink of intellectual failure, Stout writes
Book author Lynn Stout produced The Shareholder Myth in 2012 to challenge the advancement of “shareholder value” as the exclusive guiding principle of corporations. Stout, a Cornell Law School professor, debunks ...
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Ron Shaich’s “Panera Cares” experiments with “pay-what-you-can” to help with food insecurity
Ron Shaich built a major business — Au Bon Pain, then sold it off. While you’ve probably heard of Panera Bread, the popular national bakery/café chain — his second ...
Read More BOOKS: Hedrick Smith’s 10 steps for reviving the American Dream
When Hedrick Smith finished his draft of his best-selling book “Who Stole the American Dream,” he realized his reporter’s fact-based answer to the question his title posed left him with a deeper personal question: ...
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