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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

While this measure fell to 19% in 2009, it has since recovered.) After a terrible fire killed many workers in Bangladesh apparel factories, European retailers Primark and C&A worked to establish long-term compensation funds for victims and their families. And directly, the trends are literally unsustainable. Take an Interest.

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5 Bad Reasons to Start a For-Profit Social Enterprise

Harvard Business Review

It’s easy to scan headlines and see undisciplined for-profit companies (take GM, American Apparel). David del Ser (a 2009 Echoing Green fellow) created Frogtek to provide big-company-quality business intelligence to raise the income of shopkeepers in the poorest parts of Latin America.