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The World's Most Innovative Companies 2010

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Fast Company - Feb. 22 (Special Report) - From politics to technology, energy, and transportation; from marketing to retail, health care, and design, each company on the Fast Company Most Innovative Companies list for 2010 illustrates the power and potential of innovative ideas and creative execution.

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China In Africa

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Richard Behar - May. 28 (Special Report) - While America is preoccupied with the war in Iraq (cost: half a trillion dollars and counting), and while think-tank economists continue to spit out papers debating whether vital resources are running out at all, China's leadership isn't taking any chances. In just a few years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has become the most aggressive investor-nation in Africa. This commercial invasion is without question the most important development in the sub-Sahara since the end of the Cold War -- an epic, almost primal propulsion that is redrawing the global economic map. One former U.S. assistant secretary of state has called it a "tsunami." Some are even calling the region "ChinAfrica."

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Why Facebook Is Even Bigger than You Think

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Kermit Pattison - May. 21 (Interview) - Facebook is the precursor of something I'm calling mass interpersonal persuasion...Facebook takes very strong interpersonal influence dynamics -- the way people persuade each other face-to-face in small groups with peer pressure, reciprocity, flattery -- and allows those to be used on a mass scale because your social networks are built in. Friends influence friends, who influence friends, and that keeps rippling out. They can reach people very quickly for very little cost and ordinary people can set these in motion. I

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Measured Progress

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:44:53 -0700

Fast Company - By Yuval Rosenberg - Apr. 08 (Special Report) - Fast Company has launched its own effort in this realm, teaming with researchers R. Paul Herman of HIP Investor and Sara Olsen of the Social Venture Technology Group to develop an exclusive approach to measuring the human and social impact of businesses. Herman and Olsen surveyed 21 leading public companies on sustainability processes, metrics, and outcomes, combining the results with existing public data. The result, what we call the HIP (that's Human Impact + Profit) Scorecard (see chart), provides a tangible guide for investors trying to build nonfinancial metrics into their stock-picking approach. We assessed companies' progress in developing management practices focused on generating and measuring impact on customers, employees, and the environment. And we estimated the percentage of each company's revenue associated with sustainable practices. It's a potentially powerful approach--but one that also makes plain how difficult this sort of analysis remains. It's pretty straightforward, for example, to collect information on the breadth of health benefits a company offers its employees. It's another thing, though, to calculate the actual impact of those on employees' health--and how that reflects back on the company's future financial performance.

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