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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! CEO of the Year From: The Shopify Story View	This chapter highlights Lütke’s leadership qualities and business strategies that helped increase Shopify’s growth.	Larry MacDonald	7	2024	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Challenging Corporate Rule From: Still Hopeful View	In Chapter Three Barlow discusses the importance of challenging authority– all authority. The chapter discusses topics including institutional power, networks and political structures, …	Maude Barlow	50	2022	$5.00 Add
NEW! Change for Good An Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World’s Most Urgent Social Problems	An action-oriented approach for businesses to solve the world’s most urgent social problems — and benefit from doing so. More than a year into a global pandemic, profit and …	Paul Klein	274	2022	View
From NEW! Change for Good Action Chapter 5 From: Change for Good View	Chapter 5 focuses on what the most innovative corporations are doing to increase the speed of social change by reflecting on how some large corporations have been able to pick up the pace of …	Paul Klein	19	2022	$1.90 Add
From NEW! Change for Good Employees Chapter 3 From: Change for Good View	Chapter 3 provides examples of how businesses are partnering with their employees in meaningful ways to bring about positive change, alongside some of Klein’s own experiences in building …	Paul Klein	19	2022	$1.90 Add
From NEW! Change for Good Experience Chapter 8 From: Change for Good View	Chapter 8 discuss why Change for Good depends on involving people with lived experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of all social change programs. The chapter explores topics …	Paul Klein	14	2022	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Change for Good. Good for Change. Chapter 10 From: Change for Good View	Chapter 10 features a discussion about why four globally significant turning points — the Great Recession, the Trump presidency, Black Lives Matter, and COVID-19 — have led to a …	Paul Klein	21	2022	$2.10 Add
From NEW! Change for Good History Chapter 2 From: Change for Good View	Chapter 2 explores the motivations businesses have in social policy and philanthropy. The chapter explores topics including Quaker capitalism, the Trump presidency, the origins of the …	Paul Klein	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From NEW! Change for Good Investing Chapter 7 From: Change for Good View	Chapter 7 examines how small businesses and large corporations can use their capital differently to solve social problems by shifting from philanthropic contributions to social investments that …	Paul Klein	17	2022	$1.70 Add
From NEW! Change for Good Jobs Chapter 9 From: Change for Good View	Chapter 9 Klein explores the need for more diversity in business and why hiring people in need is one of the most important things corporations can do to Change for Good. The chapter discusses …	Paul Klein	20	2022	$2.00 Add
From NEW! Change for Good Responsibility Chapter 6 From: Change for Good View	Chapter 6 explores why taking more responsibility for the social welfare of your employees and your communities is foundational to the Change for Good approach. The chapter discusses topics …	Paul Klein	23	2022	$2.30 Add
From NEW! Change for Good Risk Chapter 4 From: Change for Good View	Chapter 4 explores how businesses can move past the risks they associate with doing too little or too much to help solve social problems and suggests ways that can help corporations find their …	Paul Klein	25	2022	$2.50 Add
From NEW! Change for Good Today Chapter 1 From: Change for Good View	Chapter 1 focuses on why businesses today need to deliver value to consumers at the same time as helping to solve social problems. Based on Klein’s own experience helping businesses improve …	Paul Klein	21	2022	$2.10 Add
From Chapter 1 How Things Work and Why Stories Matter From: Legacy View	In this chapter, the author discusses the history of trauma experienced by indigenous communities as a result of colonialism. This chapter also includes a general overview of indigenous …	Suzanne Methot	30	2019	$3.00 Add
From NEW! Chapter 1 That's $600 a litre in space paint From: Canadarm and Collaboration View	This chapter explores the history of Canada’s role in space exploration. Topics include Alouette I and II – the first Canadian Satellites, the Canadarm, and the role played by former …	Elizabeth Howell	26	2020	$2.60 Add
From Silphium From: Lost Feast View	This chapter follows Newman’s time in Iceland tasting Icelandic butter and her reflections on culinary extinction and how the Iceland’s unique dairy products could soon become lost.	Lenore Newman	17	2019	$1.70 Add