The single most powerful tool available to the CEO
Performance appraisals are one of the most under appreciated tools available to the company, particularly for smaller or start-up companies. Yet they can be the most powerful.
Category: Social Responsibility
An Illuminating Social Enterprise
The Luminance! Youth Art Light Festival was on at Singapore *SCAPE from 23 June – 1 July 2012.
How Social Business create Change
Getting involved in Grameen Danone also affected how Danone employees and shareholders see the world. Read how helping malnourished children in Bangladesh changed their perspective.
Social Change and the Impact of Technology
Social change can be effected by many kinds of technologies, high-tech or otherwise, and be used in many forms. How the technology is applied makes the difference.
Meet Jack Sim, Social Entrepreneur Extraordinaire
The founder of the World Toilet Organization, Jack Sim, presents at GCL@NUS his perspective about what it means to be a social entrepreneur.
Lessons in Marketing to the Silver Generation
As people live longer, demand for products and services for ‘seniors’ dramatically increases. Lessons can be learned from Japan in how they market to the ‘silver generation’.
Rolex – the quiet philantropist
It is not widely known that Rolex is a privately held company. Even less well known is how much the company does philanthropically. Hans Wilsdorf has even been compared to Bill Gates.
Idea to help malnourished children in Indonesia
At a recent Grameen Creative Lab workshop, a team went through the steps of proposing a Social Business. This is a summary of their approach, and conclusion.
How to start a Social Business
Starting a Social Business is almost the same as starting any typical business. You want to make it sustainable and making money to sustain itself.
Instead of focusing on a user need, you focus on a social problem.
Grameen Creative Lab @NUS
Many have dreamed about starting their own business to accomplish a sense of fulfilment. Others prefer to address a social or environmental problem. What if you can do both? Read on about the initiative coming to Singapore.
What is a Social Business?
Prof Mohammed Yunus, Nobel Prize Laureate, has created the concept of a Social Business which is meant to be self sustaining and helps the needy.
