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Family Matters: 10 CEOs Who Support Our Most Important Institution
This month we honor those CEOs and companies that realize that capitalism done right and respect for the family are inseparable. A free economic system that is not completely dependent upon government support only works when the family support system is alive and well. So, companies that support that family are crucial to the survival of capitalism.
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Don’t Lie To Your Employees Even When The Truth Hurts
In times of crisis, leaders inspire the grit to persevere by being brutally honest and totally transparent, along with demonstrating faith in their employees’ own work ethic.
From Wall Street To Fueling Children’s Futures – One CEO’s Personal ‘Revolution’
CEO Kristin Groos Richmond is committed to empowering students to succeed in school – and thus in life – by giving them good nutrition; she reveals why Revolution Foods’ for-profit model was the...
Benevolent Burritos: Brian Niccol’s Chipotle Is Transforming Lives And Saving The World
In this exclusive Social Capital interview, one of America’s most caring CEOs discusses how he turned the pandemic into an opportunity to help customers, the farmers who grow their food, and its...
Family Matters: 10 CEOs Who Support Our Most Important Institution
This month we honor those CEOs and companies that realize that capitalism done right and respect for the family are inseparable. A free economic system that is not completely dependent upon...
Hubert Joly's 'Human Magic' and Spiritual Enlightenment Resurrected Best Buy
Hubert Joly, who led the turnaround of Best Buy when most in business thought it a lost cause, argues eloquently that the best business leadership is about improving the lives of people.
Super Socks To Amazing Underwear: Bombas Raises The Bar For Higher Purpose
Since we first honored David Heath as one of our “Top 10 Social Capital CEOs” last November, our continuing conversations with this philanthropically motivated for-profit entrepreneur further...
Fixing Schools Starts With Nutrition: Revolution Foods Made It A Thriving Business
This week, we shine our Social Capital spotlight on one of our February honorees. She is a visionary business leader who recognizes that many people are often shut out of opportunity by a slim...
Leading In A Pandemic: CEOs Discuss How They Helped; What They Learned
As our nation begins to slowly but surely emerge from the pandemic, with the numbers of those infected as well as those dying or those hospitalized dropping to levels about a tenth of what they...
Austen Allred Will Pay You To Hire His Graduates!
The visionary founder and CEO of Lambda School wants to blow up conventional, restrictive hiring practices that he says just plain don’t work, and he’s willing to put his money where his mouth is...
Marina Hadjipateras’s Journey From Launching Ships To Caring Companies
When she was younger, TMV’s co-founder helped make sure the family business always respected its crews, and now she’s funding businesses that make people the point of profit.
Adventures In Transformative Venture Capitalism
In this exclusive Social Capital Q and A, TMV CEO Soraya Darabi candidly shares her passion for investing in purposeful startups that transform the way we live and work. Her own varied workforce...
The Power Of Knowledge — And The Leaders Who Spread It
From leaders who promote intellectual discourse to psychological awareness to medical and health knowledge our honorees this month make it their mission to help us learn for our good and the good...
The Invisible Hand Up: Windfall Profits Await Companies Who Employ The ‘Unemployable’
By embracing non-judgment, we do not give up the practices that have allowed us to succeed, but rather we question our attachment to certain longstanding practices that may actually be preventing...
Davis Smith Wanted A Company That Would 'Do Good' by Respecting People – It Worked
Local sourcing, local input drives Davis Smith to design a brand that is all about providing employment opportunity out of poverty and celebrating individual initiative.
Ed Bastian: How Flying The High Road Helped Delta Navigate Pandemic
In an amazing and exclusive Q and A with IBT’s Social Capital team, Delta Air Lines’ Ed Bastian gives an inside view of how doing business in the Social Capital way kept the company on course...
The New Revolution: Access
From Reddit’s retail stock raiders to companies making better water and healthy food a priority to leaders who believe their company’s greatest asset is to improve the lives of their employees, and...
Mike Brady: Why Social Justice Isn’t Just Right – It’s Profitable!
Mike Brady exemplifies kindness in leadership -- leaders making decisions that follow the golden rule, treating people how we want to be treated, with humanity and respect.
Education Opens Doors To Success — This CEO Opens Doors To Education
We honored Rachel Romer Carlson in November as one of that month’s Top 10 Social Capital CEOs for her commitment to breaking the cycle of poverty in many families by bringing the opportunity of...
Helping Your Leaders Discover Their Personal Core Values
Core values are the guideposts that key you on track in life; consciously or unconsciously, they drive your most important decision-making.
Want To Prevent The Next Generation Of Student Debt? Look Toward Employers
Because employers benefit directly from a student's education and the skills they’ve learned, they should share the risk and reduce the financial burden of future employees’ education.