Benefits of Cash Payments Outweigh Limitations in Alleviating Poverty

In the fight against poverty, few issues are more contentious than the allocation of the billions of dollars set aside to help those in need. Whether the money comes from private donations or state tax revenues, arguments over

Oxford Opens An MBA Class On Employee Ownership

For what we believe is the second time in the world, an ongoing class will be taught as part of a major MBA program. The Said Business School at the University of Oxford will have classes taught

Royal Mail to be Privatized with Employee Ownership

Plans are being made to privatize Royal Mail, the distribution entity of the UK government which delivers letters and packages. As part of this transaction, upon completion, employees will receive 10% of the company stock. The value

‘Bah! Humbug!’ or Christmas for All?

Every December, for the past 170 years, Ebenezer Scrooge has been haunted and redeemed. In print, on stage or on film, his story, through years of adaptations, has become part of our folklore. The dreadful, heart-of-stone miser

Gift puts Utah’s Legacy of Impact Investing, Salt Lake City on the Map

James Lee Sorenson donates $13 million to the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah for the creation of the James Lee Sorenson Center for Global Impact Investing Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (Scott G

A Survivor’s Story

Survivors from the world of drug addiction and the dark world of sex trafficking and violence often have heart-wrenching stories; girls and women with so much potential, lost to the pain and suffering of sexual exploitation. The

The Democratization of Fund and Equity Raising

From the year 2009 through 2012, “crowdfunding,” a new type of fundraising, grew 91 percent in its worldwide funding volume. Over those four years,its funding volume increased from $530 million to $2.8 billion. What is this fast-growing fundraising phenomenon? It

Smart Development for Africa: Building Entrepreneurship at MEST

As Africa awakes to its enormous promises and confronts the challenges that it must surmount, the recent World Economic Forum Africa Summit in 2013 reflected on how Africa’s entrepreneurs can be transformed into global champions.

The key points that emerged were that, though entrepreneurship

A Road Less Traveled: Rotarians, community in Kenya work together to drive change

The road to Mosiro is long, uncertain and difficult to navigate in many ways. Sometimes you will cross rifts in the road that could have been called valleys; some places the track is washed out and you must detour through

Fellowship in Honor of President Kim Clark at Oxford

“With power comes responsibility – it is as simple as that” said Professor Peter Tufano as he welcomed visitors to a discussion about business leadership and responsibility to celebrate the creation of the Kim B. Clark Fellowship in

Kenya, Violence and Mobile Technology

While there has been much written about the terrible events that took place at the Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, there has been less said about the progress made in Kenya to overcome home-grown political violence. On

A Tale of Two Cities in Northern Mexico: One With A Murderous History, One Fairly Calm

This is a tale of two development models used by northern Mexican cities. Both of them are located in the state of Chihuahua; one of them can be considered a success and the other, although it had