About 10 years ago, when Brett Hagler was only 24 and relatively unfamiliar with the facts on the ground in the developing world, he took his first trip to Haiti. There he saw firsthand the terrible challenges and choices occasioned by a lack of adequate housing. “Obviously, Haiti, it’s a very dramatic, arresting example,” says Hagler. But […]
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One of her favorite things about entrepreneurship, says Katlin Smith, Founder and CEO of better-for-you baked goods company Simple Mills “is that there’s always a new problem to be had, always a new thing to learn.” Smith left a successful consulting career in 2014 to start Simple Mills as a way to “harness the power of food to […]
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The company’s “forever” bottles, shakers, and tins are 100 percent plastic-free, compostable paper-based products. Its “clean” ingredients are safe around children and pets and powerfully effective (with 90K+ 5-star reviews). And all of it saves consumers money — because there’s no cost for plastics or water fillers. In 2010, Sarah Paiji Yoo and John Mascari sat next to each […]
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In July 2010, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly recognized clean drinking water as a basic human right. The UN requires that each government provide citizens with safe, sufficient, accessible, and affordable water. In 2021, the former Nestlé Waters NA company was sold and changed its name to BlueTriton Brands, more than a mere nod to […]
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When David Gray joined the Board of FedUp Foods, PBC in 2019, the company’s purpose was already alive and well, but operating, as he puts it, on a “subconscious” level. When Gray became CEO in 2023, he set out to prioritize the importance of “putting together an employee value proposition within that [purpose], tying it to who we […]
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Ninety-nine percent of the partnership opportunities that nine-year-old women’s fashion workwear brand Argent considers never get a yes. “We’ve been really, really intentional with our collaborations,” says CEO and founder Sali Christeson. Argent sells a functional lineup of trousers, blazers, dress tops, outerwear, and other fashion for working women through an online shop and some brick-and-mortar stores. Argent […]
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