China's Good War
by Rana Mitter
saw as similar to one of the twentieth century’s greatest acts of development, both being viewed as projects in which the sponsoring power would “do well by doing good.”44 It is therefore ironic that China had already begun to edge away very fast from any comparison with the Marshall Plan. The year before
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by Robert Scheer · 14 Apr 2010 · 257pp · 64,763 words
case—and taken over by the federal government even as its stock shares tumbled 90 percent—Raines was much celebrated as a typical elitist progressive “doing well by doing good.” Raised in a working-class family with a janitor father who built a home with his bare hands and struggled to keep a roof over
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Capital helps innovative companies survive these existential crises—as a way to make money, yes, but also to preserve democracy. It’s absolutely possible to do well by doing good. And the trend is catching on, with more and more senior officials from the Pentagon helping startups work with the Department. Market forces pushing the
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by Gregory Dicum and Nina Luttinger · 1 Jan 1999 · 230pp · 62,294 words
per year, and $20 million in sales for 2005—Equal Exchange, perhaps better than any other company, is a living demonstration that a company can do well by doing good in the world. Indeed, Equal Exchange’s approach has gained so much trust among coffee growers that a pair of Latin American Fair Trade producer
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by Mckenzie Funk · 22 Jan 2014 · 337pp · 101,281 words
company,” he said. “This stuff is sort of pro bono, but some of it, I think, will have a very profitable spin-out—we’ll do well by doing good.” At Microsoft, Myhrvold had been Gates’s in-house futurist and chief technology officer. At Cambridge, he had been a theoretical physics researcher under Stephen
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by Anne Kim · 384pp · 112,825 words
is the raw material of their business. Over the past twenty years, so-called double-bottom-line companies have become increasingly fashionable. The idea of “doing well by doing good”—pursuing both profit and social impact—has especially caught on in the consumer market, where there’s strong and growing demand for ethically sourced, environmentally
The Soil Will Save Us
by Kristin Ohlson · 14 Oct 2014
of wealthy people who think agriculture that builds healthy soil is not only a social good but also one that can be profitable—the old doing-well-by-doing-good approach. But there are probably not enough of that sort of wealthy person to save the 99 percent of US agriculture where land managers routinely
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by Judith Stein · 30 Apr 2010 · 497pp · 143,175 words
world, heading Bendix, a successful multinational corporation. A Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, Blumenthal was the kind of Democratic businessman who believed that you could do well by doing good. Balancing Blumenthal was Secretary of Labor F. Ray Marshall, another PhD in economics. AFL-CIO chief George Meany had urged Carter to appoint John Dunlop
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by Jeremy Rifkin · 9 Sep 2019 · 327pp · 84,627 words
practices (ESG) in shareholder battles and in the administration of workers’ pension fund investments. A new phrase entered into the public dialogue around economic investments: “doing well by doing good,” a line borrowed from Benjamin Franklin. The idea was that there need not be, nor should there be, a sharp division between morally and socially
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good business practices and the bottom line. Rather, it was argued that this was a false dichotomy—that in reality, doing well by doing good enhances the bottom line. With this counternarrative, unions and NGOs continued to put forth shareholder resolutions at companies’ annual meetings to factor SRI into their
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the very nature of investment decisions is at an inflection point in the industry due to a shift in the kind of investments clients demand. “Doing well by doing good” has become the new mantra. Is the enthusiasm justified? A spate of in-depth studies over the past two years, including studies prepared by Harvard
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, efficient low-carbon infrastructure without liability for either the capital investment or any financial losses incurred during the project. Socially responsible pension funds committed to doing well by doing good are the appropriate financing mechanism for ESCOs engaged in green energy production and energy savings build-outs. ESCOs operate in the private realm as well
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responsibility to ensure the success of the erection and management of the infrastructure. The “buyer beware” in seller/buyer markets gives way to the provider “doing well by doing good” in provider/user networks. This is the essence of “social capitalism” and represents a pragmatic business model that can speed the transition into a near
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) because of a set of integrity violations. But has it changed? And will it change? In the past, corporate social responsibility advocates argued that companies “do well by doing good.” We haven’t seen the evidence. Many companies did well by doing bad—by having bad labor practices in the developing world, by externalizing their
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