As we look towards rebuilding the economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, a coherent strategy for reinvention of the macro-economic system towards more equitable well-being and environmental sustainability is especially potent. Rutger Hoekstra offers a rallying and urgent strategy towards those ends in his book, Replacing GDP by 2030: Towards a Common Language for the Well-being and Sustainability Community.
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Get Smart™: leveraging student social entrepreneurship and university-community engagement through co-curricular programs to facilitate COVID-19 awareness in rural western Kansas and global online student populations
In March 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the leaders of the Honors College and the Center for Entrepreneurship in the Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship at Fort Hays State University identified a potential solution to the double problem of the interruption of student engagement activities and the need for increased COVID awareness. They worked with their students to develop a social entrepreneurship initiative called “Get Smart About COVID-19” ™ that linked students with each other, with campus and community partners, and with local businesses to explore COVID science and mitigation through online workshops. These workshops continue to grow and develop as more partners come online.
Posted inEditorial
Hedge Funds versus Visionary Leaders
Emmanuel Faber, the CEO of Danone, is under attack from “activist” shareholders as he attempts to transform his company into a more environmentally and socially sustainable company. The authors argue this would be disastrous for the company and for long term value creation.
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CityCrafting for Abundance in All Communities
TikTok creator @larteur posted a video captioned “All immigrants are artists” and as the proud daughter and sister of Colombian immigrants who would hardly describe her family as “artistic,” I was intrigued. The 60-second video shows a clip from an interview between Steven Yeun & Riz Ahmed in conversation from Actors on Actors (via Variety […]
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Transformative Change in an Incremental World: Learning From Our Mistakes
Years ago, I was given a career opportunity with a global investment trust fund to represent and work for an extraordinary group of people that represent the core of our communities and our economy, what we now refer to as ‘essential workers’. These are people whose work is critical to the functioning of our economy. […]
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