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Support social enterprises in their value chains Beyond philanthropic funding, corporations bring unique value to social enterprises by incorporating health and nutrition products into their sales channels or linking enterprises to new markets. Corporations can support the small businesses and social enterprises already in their value chains by maintaining business relationships, extending credit, and seeking out new opportunities for collaboration that may have been created by the crisis. … [Read more...] about Corporate donations shouldn’t be Band-Aids. Big bets on social enterprises will make more change

Incendiary speech or activity also brushes up against other issues in a workplace. Let’s say a staffer parks a car in the employee lot that has an anti-LGBTQ or Proud Boys bumper sticker on it. Other workers pass by it and know that person’s opinions, which could make marginalized or underrepresented employees feel harassed. Employers have to decide what their tolerance levels are. … [Read more...] about Can you fire an employee who was a U.S. Capitol rioter? In a word, yes

Insisting on a rigorous reliance on the facts At pre-Mulally Ford, the truth came in many different flavors. Different numbers were used for different audiences. Ford was also big on excuses. There was always a reason why things did not work out according to plan, but it rarely had anything to do with the root causes of Ford’s dysfunction. … [Read more...] about Saving An Iconic Brand: Five Ways Alan Mulally Changed Ford’s Culture

Design-Centered The visually designed user-experience of many e-commerce sites can be uninspired and uninteresting. Fancy is a design-forward site and builds on the human inclination to be attracted to beautiful things by developing a magazine-style layout with a clean aesthetic. This design-forward layout lends itself to working seamlessly with the world’s most beautiful brands, such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Stella McCartney, and Alexander McQueen, which not only use the platform, but partner with it. … [Read more...] about What The Fancy Is Doing Right With Online Shopping

Timing Is Everything Instagram’s expanded mission has done more than give its users options they clearly wanted: All those new features have kneecapped Snapchat at a critical moment. As the buzz around Snap’s potential IPO was building throughout 2016–the company finally went public on March 2–the rapid embrace of Instagram Stories altered the narrative around Snap. In its S-1 filing for its IPO, released in February, Snap specifically called out Instagram’s feature as a copycat that could hamper Snapchat’s future market share. The document also included stats that showed its app’s user growth having slacked off right around the time of Instagram Stories’ introduction last August. For some investors, sentiment shifted from thinking of Snap as the next Facebook to hoping it can avoid being the next Twitter. … [Read more...] about How Instagram Changed—Before It Had To