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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose. She wanted to know more about Darrin’s story and this relatively small, regional, Arkansas bank. It was a model for the future.

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The real deal on how to join a Board

Roundtable Talk

Guest panellists David Anderson (The Anderson Governance Group), Sharon Ranson (The Ranson Group) and Holly Henderson (Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation) shared their best tips and here’s a roundup for those who weren’t able to snag one of our limited seats. . And fees for directorships in smaller corporations in quite nominal.

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Being the World's Largest Ad Agency Might Not Be Something to Brag About

Harvard Business Review

In a rebuke to the traditional practice of cutting a check to support a charity, Toyota offered the Food Bank for New York City some strategy consulting instead. And after Hurricane Sandy, a Food Bank warehouse lowered the time it took to pack boxes of supplies for victims from 3 minutes to 11 seconds. Live and Let Die.