Sustainable business practices can make a company more profitable, so why resist them? Ignorance? Madness? Alien mind-control? A deft explanation from the former president of the Rainforest Alliance and current director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Music from Sid Whelan and Trevor Bridgewater. Photo by Kahn, courtesy of the NYU photo bureau. Continue reading »

The co-founder and CEO of Ecovative Designs, he  trained as a mechanical engineer but now devises products made from mushrooms. Mushrooms! “If the last century was about electronics,” he says, “ the next century is going to be about biology.” How inventors invent. Plus music from Bendt. How musicians musish. Continue reading »

If you are defamed online, Google’s CEO will swiftly clean up the mess and come to your house with a comforting puppy. In Randyland. Here on earth, Ervine’s experience was different and led him to devise ways to fight cyberbullying. Plus music from James Shipp and Nadje Noordhuis. Continue reading »

  Some silicon valley companies make grandiose claims, but Chieh Huang, founder of the online retailer Boxed, is more modest: ”We’re not changing the world by selling toilet paper.” But perhaps he is – not with the products he sells but through the benefits he offers his workers. He calls Boxed, “a new-school tech company … Continue reading »

  The cofounder and CEO of Kickstarter, he sees his enterprise as a kind of narrative: “It’s not a marketing plan, it’s not a branding layout…it’s a story of them, a story of the individual coming to this thing and why they’re trying to make this thing happen.” We spoke at the Brooklyn Historical Society, … Continue reading »