Paris Faint – Business News Australia – 18 July 2018 Daniel Stoten believes that giving back to the community is a true hallmark of Aussie spirit. Stoten is the entrepreneur behind Localsearch, an online and offline marketing agency which spans more than 200 cities and regional towns to help Australian businesses raise brand awareness and reach … Read more
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KATHMANDU’S CSR MANAGER ON COMBATTING MODERN SLAVERY IN RETAIL
Kathmandu has recently become the first brand in the southern hemisphere to receive accreditation from the Fair Labor Association (FLA). The Kiwi-founded travel and adventure brand, will join the ranks of Patagonia, Columbia and Nike in a commitment to enhance freedom and human rights in garment production across the globe. Kathmandu looks towards global best practice to … Read more
In the Business of Change : How Social Entrepreneurs are Disrupting Business as Usual (ebook)
Author: Elisa Birnbaum Our communities are facing the fallout from the demise of vital industry, bankrupt economies, bad policy or policing, and political mismanagement. People are looking for answers, and the “same old” simply won’t do. In the Business of Change is a practical and inspirational guide that showcases how social entrepreneurs from places such … Read more
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Members of the Business Studio now have access to the full version of the ProQuest Entrepreneurship Database! This database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly – including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings – to a full toolkit … Read more
Can Business Save the Earth? : Innovating Our Way to Sustainability (ebook)
Authors: Michael Lenox and Aaron Chatterji Increasingly, business leaders are tasked with developing new products, services, and business models that minimize environmental impact while driving economic growth. It’s a tall order–and a call that is only getting louder. In Can Business Save the Earth?, Michael Lenox and Aaron Chatterji explain just how the private sector … Read more
Conscious Capitalism Field Guide : Tools for Transforming Your Organization (ebook)
Authors: Raj Sisodia, Timothy Henry and Thomas Eckschmidt You subscribe to the basic idea that business can do more than make money, but you’re not sure how to act on that conviction or how to share it with the rest of your organization. This book gives you the tools for sharing and implementing the principles … Read more
Why small businesses have to smile more
Consumers expect more warmth from small companies, and will punish you if you don’t deliver, new research has found. How company size changes expectations Do consumers have different expectations of how they’ll be treated by a business according to its size? Yes. In a forthcoming paper, researchers Yang and Aggarwal (2018) investigated how “perceptions of a company’s … Read more
Singapore startup Carousell has raised $112 million in Series C funding to invest in AI
Singaporean e-commerce startup Carousell has raised $US85 million ($112.4 million) in its series C funding round, and will use the cash to bring artificial intelligence into the world of classified ads. Founded in 2012, Carousell is a community marketplace app intended to make buying and selling items as easy as possible. It launched in Australia in … Read more
HOW ORANGE SKY IS SCALING ITS TECHNOLOGY TO RECONNECT COMMUNITIES ACROSS AUSTRALIA
James Harkness – Dynamic Business – 27 April 2018 The challenges SMBs inevitably encounter as they outgrow their original technological infrastructure can become compounded if they’re experiencing rapid expansion and find themselves overseeing a national workforce. Social entrepreneurs Nic Marchesi and Lucas Patchett, named the 2016 young Australians of the year, know this all too … Read more
A lending site where you can rent anything from tampons to expensive drones and cameras just scored millions in venture capital
Fat Lama, a lending site that lets users rent and lease goods, just raised $US10 million for its Series A. The site, which kicked off in the UK two years ago, recently launched its first stateside offering in New York. While Fat Lama typically offers equipment like drones, printers, and cameras, some more curious items … Read more