http://www.hipinvestor.com/blog Human Impact + Profit Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:35:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Vice vs. Nice" Joyce Hanson of Advisor One writes "Doing good versus making money—that was the topic at the Javits Center in New York. In a sometimes feisty Oxford-style debate, portfolio managers and professors sparred over whether socially responsible investment has any business contributing to—or subtracting from—a company’s bottom line..." READ the ... http://www.hipinvestor.com/blog/2011/10/02/vice-vs-nice-feature-story-by-advisor-ones-joyce-hanson-sept-29/ Corporate Responsibility magazine & NYSE Euronext hosted an Executive Summit on Sept. 27 as part of the COMMIT!Forum: the gathering of leaders improving business and society, featuring successful practices from the world's 100 Best Corporate Citizens. (LIST at www.TheCRO.com) At this concurrent gathering of senior executives -- including HIP Investor's ... http://www.hipinvestor.com/blog/2011/10/02/hip-ceo-at-nyse-podium-ringing-the-closing-bell-sept-27/ If Stephen Colbert Interviewed the HIP Investor -- on "Colbert Platinum" Fans of cable-channel star Stephen Colbert, of The Colbert Report, enjoy watching Stephen profiling the "good life" of living large.  One day (hopefully soon), Colbert will discover how investing can be more HIP.  What would that interview be like?  Here's ... http://www.hipinvestor.com/blog/2010/09/24/if-stephen-colbert-interviewed-the-hip-investor-on-colbert-platinum/ THE NEWS: The SEC voted on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010, to issue “interpretive guidance” to corporations -- essentially requesting that firms include risks pertaining to climate change in their public filings. The Securities and Exchange Commission - and federal law -  has long required the corporate disclosure of “material risk” ... http://www.hipinvestor.com/blog/2010/02/07/hip-pov-sec-urges-corporate-disclosure-of-climate-change-risk/ Measuring impact – whether human, social or environmental – can feel like an impossible task, but really just requires a step-by-step path.  There are many frameworks that you can draw upon; the key is to start simple, pilot an approach, and then evolve. At the Opportunity Collaboration in mid-October 2009 in Mexico, ... http://www.hipinvestor.com/blog/2009/10/22/how-to-get-started-measuring-impact/ Big Change Fast: Walmart’s Sustainability Index Seeks to Drive 60,000 Suppliers to be More HIP Walmart, the world’s largest retailer at $400 billion in revenue and 7000-plus stores, the US’s second-largest employer with 1.8 million staff, and a leader in sustainability– has just launched a new, sustainability scorecard for the 60,000-plus suppliers ... http://www.hipinvestor.com/blog/2009/07/31/walmarts-sustainability-index-driving-60000-suppliers-to-be-more-hip/ How HIP Is Your Mobile Phone Provider? BY MARA LUDMER and PAUL HERMAN With a calendar, music player, internet access, and camera, nowadays your phone does a lot more than just make calls. That’s why your mobile phone should be just as HIP as you are. When choosing a cell phone service ... http://www.hipinvestor.com/blog/2009/07/31/how-hip-is-your-mobile-phone-provider/ How HIP Is Your Revenue Mix? Will You Be a HIP Conglomerate? Wall Street analysts and institutional investors examine sales growth, international sales, product mix and business unit ups and downs. All of these are financial in nature, and critically important to an enterprise’s economic prosperity. But those metrics ... http://www.hipinvestor.com/blog/2009/04/30/how-hip-is-your-revenue-mix-who-is-a-hip-conglomerate/ HOW HIP IS OBAMA’S STIMULUS? A HIP SCORECARD CAN MEASURE THE HUMAN IMPACT OF OUR TAXES When investing in a business, you are a shareholder expecting a return on your investment (ROI). But as a citizen, you are typically called a taxpayer. In reality, we are tax-investors. ... http://www.hipinvestor.com/blog/2009/02/27/stimulus-scorecards-measure-human-impact-and-roi-of-our-taxes/ January/February 2009: "MICROFINANCE INSIGHTS" MAGAZINE HIP HIGHLIGHTS 3 WAYS TO GROW REVENUE FOR CORPORATES PARTNERING WITH MICROFINANCE GROUPS (MFI'S) By R. Paul Herman and Tom Willis of HIP Investor Inc. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have a large customer base of 100 million reliable entrepreneurs seeking to build the health and wealth of ... http://www.hipinvestor.com/blog/2009/02/26/3-ways-to-grow-revenue-for-corporates-working-with-mfis/