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Social Capital: Changing The World By Changing How The World Does Business
Almost a year ago, we set out to find select CEOs who respected people. We discovered a treasure trove of compassionate and caring capitalists.
Featuring IBT’s TOP 20 Social Capital CEOs for August 2021
Sarah Paiji Yoo
Co-founder and CEO of Blueland
Bill Nash
President and CEO of CarMax
Joth Ricci
President and CEO of Dutch Bros Coffee
Eric Artz
President and CEO of REI
John Schlifske
Chairman and CEO of Northwestern Mutual
Ken Fisher
Founder and Executive Chairman at Fisher Investments
Danny Meyer
Founder and Chairman of Shake Shack
Lorna Borenstein
CEO and Founder of Grokker
Ernie Herrman
President and CEO at TJX
Tristan Walker
Founder and CEO of Walker & Company Brands
Philip Behn
CEO of Imperfect Foods
Tim Harsch
CEO & Co-Founder of Owler
Carlos Rodriguez
President and CEO of ADP
Stu Sjouwerman
Founder and CEO of KnowBe4
Linda Rendle
CEO of The Clorox Company
Jonathan Keyser
Founder of Keyser
Jorge Perez
Chairman and CEO of The Related Group
Shawn Conway
CEO of Peet’s Coffee
Carissa Jordan
Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Benjamin Talks
Nikki Boulukos
Co-founder and Co-CEO of Benjamin Talks
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.
My Favorite Day Of The Pandemic
If there’s one thing the pandemic has brought, it’s clarity on what our real impact really is.
How America’s Top Social Capital CEOs Can Teach Us the Power of Kindness
These leaders run their businesses and their lives as if they are the citizens of a small town, or a student at a small college, or as if they are hanging out with their small group of friends, or...
What Led Roger Hochschild To 'Discover' His Simple And Sincere Approach To Diversity?
In November we honored Roger C Hochschild as one of our Top 10 Social Capital CEOs for continuing and bolstering Discover’s commitment to its mission “To help people spend smarter, manage debt...
Selling Socks And Saving 'Soles'
David Heath created a capitalist solution to solving one of the most heartbreaking realities in America - hundreds of thousands of homeless cannot afford or find socks. He leveraged his...
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