You’d assume that the import, influence, and legacy of Meals on Wheels would need no introduction. After all, since the London Blitz of the 1940s, its earliest organizational ancestor’s been on the street bringing nutrition, dignity, and fellowship to underserved and at-risk communities such as seniors and the disabled. So…
Like everyone, I’m looking back on the last year and looking forward to the one coming up. A great place to start is here in this column and all the examples of companies and entrepreneurs driving inspiring positive change. It seems to have been an oasis of hope amid a…
Sid Gupta is co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Quince, “a curated marketplace of factories” that democratizes mass access to high-quality apparel, home goods, and jewelry at deeply discounted prices, especially relative to the luxury brands its stock emulates. Because, according to the company, “quality shouldn’t be a luxury.”
Nor…
More than a billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world, someone opens a PepsiCo product — in many cases adapted to local tastes and ingredients. Catapulted by a strong growth mindset and an existing food and beverage portfolio of household brands like Frito-Lay…
Nobell Foods of South San Francisco will soon go public with its delicious cheese fabricated from proprietary plant-derived dairy proteins, supporting its larger mission of creating a radically more humane and regenerative global food system.
The company has developed patented tech that genetically engineers casein — the protein that gives…
Senofer Mendoza is an investor and GP at Mendoza Ventures of Boston, a hands-on, seed-, early-, and growth-stage FinTech, AI, and cybersecurity venture capital firm she founded with her husband, Adrian Mendoza, in 2016. …
“Clean,” “conscious,” and “cruelty-free” beauty products are rapidly eclipsing the toxic, harmful competitors of yesteryear in the gigantic ($500+ billion) woman’s beauty market.
But it was Leslie Blodgett, a pioneer woman — meaning way back in the mid-1990s — who first revolutionized skin care, for a faltering concern called Bare…
High-tech science fostering natural processes, plus a bushel of inspiration, are all behind Eastern Kentucky’s AppHarvest’s success. The AgTech company is growing fresh, nutritious produce on a string of vast sustainable indoor farms in a region that’s traditionally relied on coal for its economy.
The company’s Appalachian home is within…
For this post, the tables were turned as I sat down with Ian Blake Newhem, host of “The Operative Word” on KABC radio in Los Angeles. He dug into the thesis of my new book, Lead With We, and how any brand can unlock business value and societal impact by…
Online and at more than 370 Eddie Bauer stores, customers of the iconic US clothing store chain headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, come to outfit themselves for outdoor adventures — or to look stylish in the brand’s made-to-last casual clothes.
But few, even among the company’s 10,000 part- and full-time employees…
