The Business Roundtable issued a statement ending the concept of shareholder primacy, shifting to a stakeholder view.
From shareholder primacy to a better American dream
Social enterprise startup: Empowering energy equity through solar!
Solstice deploys “community solar,” enabling households to subscribe to shared solar farms. Co-founder and CEO, Steph Speirs, highlights their business model to achieve greater energy equity.
Social entrepreneurship: Startup challenges with added value
Applying entrepreneurial principles to serve the poor and protect the planet is the definition of social entrepreneurship at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Santa Clara University.
Employee ownership: Gaining engagement through transparency and responsibility
Learn perspectives on employee-owned companies as the basis of a new economy focused on broad-based prosperity, limited wealth inequality, shared sense of ownership, and responsibility for communities and workplaces.
Collectives: Delivering transparency and decision-making
Worker collectives make decisions by practicing direct democracy. In NOBL’s case, decisions are made by a broad consensus and operates with little hierarchy.
Sociocracy: Achieving results in circles – Learn, Do, Measure
The objective: Decision-making by consent which led them to Sociocracy. Decision-making members are organized in circles with a Learn, Do, Measure mindset.
Cooperatives: Blending Business and Community
Cooperatives, with their community focus, are increasingly viewed as alternatives to the economic models of capitalism and socialism. Explore cooperatives!
Holacracy: Achieving Clarity and Productivity
What happens when a company transitions from a traditional business model to one with distributed authority – Holacracy? At Covert.com this brought work to the forefront and allowed it to guide the organization’s structure and management process.