What does 2012 have in store for giving, especially the impact-driven approach to it we call "philanthrocapitalism"? Having peered into our philanthrocrystal ball, we see giving becoming more dangerous, more controversial, and more political, among other things, as philanthrocapitalists find themselves at the centre of some of the year's biggest...

If you want a model for how the world can solve its most pressing problems in the 21st century, it is the posse. As governance systems go, the Wild West approach of rounding up a few available hands and driving the bad guy out of town is certainly messy, but,...

Is corporate social responsibility to blame for the oil spill in the Gulf or for the meltdown of the global financial system in late 2008? This accusation has been made by our friend Chrystia Freeland, the editor at large of Thomson Reuters, in the Washington Post.

While it...

"Main Street America has to take the lead in getting our economy in shape for the next fifty years": that was the rallying cry of our first post in this series.

Given the dire state of the US economy and the political paralysis on financial reform in Washington, it...

"Idiotic" is how one Amazon reviewer of "The Road From Ruin" describes our idea that values can be put back into capitalism. Happily that reviewer otherwise loves the book. Yet we were struck that so many Huffington Post readers who commented on our opening article were also skeptical that business...

Arianna loves most of the ideas in our book, "The Road From Ruin," with one notable exception: she thinks we are not in favor of the "muscular regulation" of finance that she thinks is essential. We think a better way to characterize our position is that massive regulatory reform is...

President Obama hit the nail on the head when he called the economic crisis "a great opportunity," yet so far it is one that America is wasting. Eighteen months ago, Lehman Brothers went bust and trillions of dollars of taxpayers' money was used to save the banking system. It seemed...

What cause, what movement brings together Tony Blair and Jet Li, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, Muhammad Yunus and Sir Richard Branson? In a word (albeit a hard-to-pronounce word), it is philanthrocapitalism.

Philanthrocapitalism is about combining the head and the heart, by bringing a businesslike approach to solving society's...