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Bonus Content from The Responsibility Revolution: Q&A with B Corporation Co-Founder Jay Coen Gilbert By Jeffrey Hollender & Bill Breen

Ambiguity is not an option. For any company that seriously intends to harness the power of the marketplace to crack society’s biggest challenges, authenticity—the capacity to do what you say you’ll do—is a core, non-negotiable attribute. And that presents a problem.

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How Businesses Can Regain Trust

Over the past year, the brand called capitalism has sunk to unfathomable lows. There’s near universal disgust over the bank and insurance industry bailouts; gnawing fear over the accelerating global recession; outrage over all those Ponzi-scheming fraudsters; and a sickening sense that too many bankers and financiers are still driven by unquenchable greed. Earlier this [...]

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Where Executives Reap Fortunes from Failure

Just when I thought I’d become numbed to the daily dirge of dire financial news, along comes a New York Times report that left me stunned.

n an article aptly headlined “Gimme Back Your Paycheck,” Gretchen Morgenson reported that executives at seven of the financial industry’s biggest losers leached $464 million in performance pay since 2005. They were as adept at wiping out shareholder wealth as they were at accumulating their own wealth — their companies lost $740 billion in stock market value in the past two years.

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