By Cayman Macdonald Other than being awesome companies, what do Kleen Kanteen, Patagonia, and Boloco have in common? Not only are they all certified B Corps, but they are also legal benefit corporations – which are not one and the same. The central idea around both is that they are Read more…
Interview by Aekta Shah I had the privilege of interviewing two of SEI’s finest alumni, Katherine Dumais and Emily Chiappinelli a couple weeks ago. Katherine, Class of 2016, and Emily, Class of 2014, were kind enough to answer some questions about their coveted jobs as fellows at B Lab in Read more…
By Maria Bermudez The idea of leveraging customer spending is an idea that has been attracting a lot of attention not only because it sounds very powerful, but because it is easy for us to do. The recognition of the impact that we as consumers can have on a macrolevel Read more…
By Emily O’Connor Founded in 2010, several years before the global refugees crisis began to dominate international headlines, Prosperity Candle had a mission to provide opportunity to women in conflict zones. The founders, Ted Barber and Amber Chand, were looking for a way invest in women entrepreneurs to address poverty Read more…
By Kayla O’Neill Being a thoughtful consumer doesn’t stop with where you choose to spend your dollars. It also matters where you choose to save them. In the face of rising income inequality and fossil fuel investments, campaigns increasingly encourage consumers to “break up with their mega-banks.” Community development banks Read more…
By Professor Dennis R. Shaughnessy If you’ve watched the HBO comedy series “Silicon Valley,” you’ll hear the tech entrepreneurs lead their investor presentations with “We’re making the world a better place by….” It might be “We’re making the world a better place through Paxos algorithms for consensus protocols…,” or “We’re Read more…