For Christmas my Mother gave me an interesting book of women’s literary criticism. I flipped through somewhat at random and found fascinating reading about the lives and writings of both Margaret Mitchell (author of Gone with the Wind, published in 1936) and Zora Neale Hurston (who wrote Their Eyes were Watching God, published in 1937.) [...]
Archive for February, 2008
A visit to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Posted in Along the Way on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Accountable Compassion
Posted in Capital Thoughts on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking of calling my collection of activities “full spectrum capital” (but the domain name is already camped on). Good Capital and Tim Freundlich were really key inspirations for me in their emphasis that it’s a continuum between philanthropy and investing, not buckets. The Heron Foundation also looks at their activities this way. I [...]
Case Studies in Sustainable Business
Posted in Homework RePost on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We read a series of mini-case-studies (UVA-ENT-0100) put together by Andrea Larson of The Darden School at UVA, guest professor at BGI this quarter. As I read through the cases a few themes emerged for me: First, in product reformulation, supply chain collaboration is key. Several cases are about premium products standing out in commodity [...]
