PROTECTING COMPANIES THAT MIX PROFITABILITY, VALUES
Imagine you’re a new baby-food company that wants to promote a certain social vision: You use organic ingredients, and you’re at the cutting edge of employee benefit policies. You also want to grow and...
View ArticleTHE BENEFIT CORPORATION: CAN BUSINESS BE ABOUT MORE THAN PROFIT?
New laws take effect in Vermont and Virginia today, giving ethical business a boost. If Vermont’s law had been around 11 years ago, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield might not have had to sell their ice...
View ArticleNEW YORK UNANIMOUSLY PASSES BENEFIT CORPORATION BILL
On June 16th and 17th, New York Senate and Assembly unanimously (62-0 in the Senate and 139-0 in the Assembly) passed a bill that, when signed by Gov. Cuomo, will make New York the 5th state to allow...
View ArticleWITH NEW LAW, PROFITS TAKE A BACK SEAT
Today in Wall Street Journal By ANGUS LOTEN A brownie supplier to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, a skateboard maker and a payday lender are among the hundreds of existing businesses that plan to...
View ArticlePROFIT + PURPOSE
Over the last year, I’ve been lecturing at Harvard Law and Stanford Law about structuring social enterprises for impact. I always have people asking me to see the slides, but have never publicly shared...
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