Every crisis is of course unique and demands specialized communications. But regardless of scale, or location, or type, common features emerge...
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A Vision From Farm to Fork: What A Strong Regional Supply Chain Looks Like
Friday, October 25, 2019
Following sessions with the Global Alliance for the Future of Food (NYC) and The Emerson Collective (CA), Jonathan J. Halperin addressed the audience at The Chesapeake Food Summit (DC), urging participants to let go of the myth of a “neat, clear, linear supply chain. It’s a web, a network, a system. We all need to think in systems. Systems connect silos.”
What They Talked About in Helsinki.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Helsinki was not an aberration. It is time we stopped being shocked. Trump and Putin share common goals and values: absolute need for loyalty, disdain for free and fair elections, willingness to use and discard people, and antipathy toward media.
Markers of Corporate Purpose, Part II
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Purpose seems to be catching fire. Empowered by yet another horrendous school massacre, students from Parkland have changed the American conversation in a momentous way.
Phones and Nuclear Power: The Network Effect Collides with the Tragedy of the Commons
Monday, June 11, 2018
The technologies we embrace reflect social and business values. But whether they embody our personal values is another question entirely.
A Fair Chance at Work: Employment Pathways for Excluded Individuals
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Jonathan Halperin (Head of External Affairs) and Mike Brady (CEO) discuss Greyston's Open Hiring model and their plans to support other companies in its adoption. (Transform Finance Investor Network Webinar, January 24, 2018)
Authenticity is the business principle for 2018
Monday, January 8, 2018
Jonathan J. Halperin in the Huffington Post (CSR Matters: Leading CSR Practitioners Make Predictions for 2018)
The Leading Good Podcast: Rod Arnold hosts Jonathan Halperin
Saturday, December 23, 2017
A pioneering social enterprise, Greyston practices Open Hiring™ – providing jobs to individuals who face barriers to employment – and supports its employees and community members with a range of community programs.
On Purpose and Profit
Friday, December 8, 2017
Many corporate leaders still wonder both what purpose looks like operationally and whether it really generates value.
Our Work with Greyston...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
When we first started working with Greyston--New York's first registered benefit corporation, a hybrid social enterprise, and a world-class bakery--its history was rich and its story powerful.
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When I began to unhook from SustainAbility in 2008, after 20+ years, to co-found Volans, Jonathan was working with the US end of SustainAbility — and sent the London end of the Volans team a large cardboard box of multi-colored felt rocks, which initially I couldn't make head nor tail of. I thought he was mad, or overly American.
But I have to say that, over time, those felt rocks have become a central feature of the Volans culture, thrown by team members at other team members (or guests) on the slightest provocation. That aside, he's a consummate professional, creative collaborator, skilled communicator, and keen intellect—and I am delighted both to have had Jonathan as a colleague and to now count him as a friend.
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