by Christie Lee | Jun 9, 2017 | 2017, Company of Good
THE BODY SHOP – The Body Shop is on a quest to help a monkey – an endangered red-shanked douc named Reggie – find love. No, the 41-year-old L’Oreal-owned firm has not become an animal-dating service agency. The search for Reggie’s...
by Christie Lee | May 31, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
Coffee production and consumption have risen considerably over the past few decades, with 2.25 billion cups of coffee being consumed daily worldwide. But the future availability and price of coffee are going to be impacted by climate change and farmers who grow it may...
by Christie Lee | May 30, 2017 | 2017
Businesses and NGOs can come together with the best of intentions, but must manage competing desires and expectations. Why do some partnerships achieve a win-win while others are unsatisfying? In recent research, Garima Sharma and Pratima Bansal (Western University)...
by Christie Lee | May 15, 2017 | 2017, Company of Good
JARDINE MATHESON – Jana had been suffering from depression for about six years when she found a temporary job as an administrative assistant at Jardine Engineering (Singapore) – created as part of the group’s efforts to support mental health. Not...
by Christie Lee | May 12, 2017 | 2017
Wealthy people are selfish jerks. So are their children. That is the implication, at least, of a batch of recent psychological studies. In a 2015 study, for example, preschoolers were told that they had earned enough tokens for “a really great prize.” They could keep...
