Our Winning Business segment highlights how businesses deliver a triple bottom line in real and practical terms. Each week, a member of our team of business consultants, journalists and investors report on macro-trends and specific company initiatives that boost profits because they benefit people and our planet. Inspirational. Informative. Innovative. Now that's Winning Business... because nobody has to lose!
Jonathan
Bonnano is the Founder of the InterBill Corporation,
Owner of Mobiliance, and Founder of ViaMoviles.
He is currently a member of the Board of Directors at Cool Earth Solar, Founder of EarthBright, and Chairman of the Cleantech Investment Committee at Keiretsu Forum. He is a member of ACORE (American Counsel on Renewable Energy), a member of the New Energy Congress and sponsor of EasyConnect, a Berkeley based mobility and transportation study group.
Check out Jonathan's list of Top 10 Things that people can do VERY EASILY to reduce their resource usage and help our world. Always remember, if you do not use it, there is no need to produce it.
Hazel
Henderson, Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer - Dr. Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books. Her editorials appear in 27 languages and more than 400 newspapers. Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals, including (in USA) Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Challenge, Mainichi (Japan), El Diario (Venezuela), World Economic Herald (China), and Australian Financial Review. She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and co-edited, with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul, the Report the Global Commission to Fund the United Nations. She also serves on several boards, including Worldwatch Institute (1975-2001), Calvert Social Investment Fund, Cousteau Society, The New Economics Foundation (London, UK), and WETV (Ottawa, Canada). The first version of her Country Futures Indicators (CFI©), an alternative to the Gross National Product (GNP), is a co-venture with Calvert Group, Inc.: the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicators – www.ethicalmarkets.com
4/23/06 Show - Hazel Henderson "How
to make money through our values" 
Mark
Donohue, General Partner - Mark has 20 years of experience
as an entrepreneur, with a broad background in private equity
transactions. He has served in multiple venture backed companies
in key leadership roles, including CEO, COO, Director of Business
Development, and Board Chair. Prior to founding Expansion
Capital, Mark had 15 years of financial management firms:
Social Capital Partners (an NASD Member Firm), which raised
venture capital and provided strategic advisory services to
many industries including Clean Technology, and Symphony Capital
Management, a financial management firm that had 400 corporate
family clients. Mark chairs the Financial Management Committee
of the Threshold Foundation and was a Board Member and Chair
of the Membership Committee for the Social Venue Network,
which is the leading organization for the socially progressive
CEO's. Mark has a B.S. in investments, with honors, from Babson
College and has served for four years on Babson College's
Board of Overseers. He holds a certificate from the Sanno
Institue of business Administration in Tokyo, Japan. In the
past, he was also a Certified Financial Planner, among other
post-graduate studios – www.expansioncapital.com
It is a rare set of skills that enable
David Batstone to be active as a business entrepreneur, professor
and journalist. Batstone is Senior Editor of Worthwhile magazine
and the Executive Editor of Sojourners magazine. Batstone
was also a founding editor of Business 2.0 magazine and a
contributor to Worthwhile Magazine, The New York Times, Wired,
The Chicago Tribune, Spin and The San Francisco Chronicle.
He is the recipient of two national journalist awards and
named the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at the
University of San Francisco for his work in technology and
ethics. Gifted as an entrepreneur, Batstone has played an
executive role in a niche investment bank operating internationally
in the entertainment and technology industries. During the
1980s, he founded and directed a non-governmental agency dedicated
to economic development and human rights in Latin America
– www.rightreality.com
"As I've pursued a career these
last 30 years, the essential question for me has been: "How
can I be a Marxist and still own a Jacuzzi?"
My dream has been that I and the next generation of business leaders – the generation our planet has been waiting for – would find a path to lifetime happiness ("Making a Life, Making a Living®," Warner Books, 2000), find our right livelihood ("Finding Work That Matters," Sounds True, 2002), and find a way to have a significant impact on making the world a better place for all ("True to Yourself: Leading a Values-Based Business," Berrett-Koehler, 2006).
You see, I never really lost the ideals of the '60s. I just
wanted material comforts, too. While I detested Western capitalism
– witnessed by my 15-month backpack around the world
after college – I returned to doctoral work at the West
Point of Capitalism, and even became a marketing professor
there.
I received my 15-minutes of fame in the mid-80s, started my
own businesses, and even got a hug from then President Ronald
Reagan, who taught me that when you make people feel good
about themselves, they will do almost anything for you. Even
so, as a fast-track "conflicted achiever" unhappy
in his work, I found out, as the great philosopher Lily Tomlin
once said, "The problem with the rat race is that even
if you win, you are still a rat."– www.makingalife.com
Mark
A. Finser - President and CEO of RSF, a leader and
innovator in the social finance sector. Through its many programs,
RSF offers a variety of financial, philanthropic, educational
and advisory tools to help organizations that provide social
benefit. Mark was part of the founding group that reorganized
and revitalized RSF in 1984. As a result of his leadership,
RSF has grown exponentially, having made over $80 million
in loans to social enterprises as well facilitating over $30
million of grants to organizations all over the world.
