Note: While this blog is almost entirely China focused, the following post wraps up coverage of the Fifth Annual Clinton Global Initiative Meeting and does not address US-China business or development issues. To my regular readers, I promise to have something China-related for you soon! Robert Frank, Senior Writer for the Wall Street Journal has [...]
(Calvin Chin, Founder of Qifang. Photo by Elliott Ng) Social enterprise has rapidly become the business model of the future, whether bundled into traditional corporate structures or formed by entrepreneurial not-for-profit organizations. At this year’s Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, it certainly appeared that nearly every nation in the world was working to harness social [...]
Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma took the stage at the Clinton Global Initiative Fifth Annual Meeting on Wednesday as one of the headline participants for an afternoon plenary session, “Harnessing Innovation and Development,” moderated by Matthew Bishop, American Business Editor for The Economist. “Nobody believed that China would get into the internet space,” Ma claimed, [...]
“Sustainability is the defining challenge of our era,” said American film actor Edward Norton at the Third Annual World Savers Congress, held on Monday by Conde Nast Traveler at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan. “For our grandparents the challenge was fascism, for our parents the challenge was civil rights, and our challenge is environmental [...]
Environmental degradation is a global emergency that urgently calls for closer cooperation between East and West, inevitably transforming the way we all think about economic development and sustainable industry. As more companies shift their attention towards “green” solutions, the blended value business model of social enterprise has emerged as an approach which, as Greennovate Founder [...]
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