The Marketing Bureau

And Make Your (Huge Piles Of) Money By Doing Good
By Gregory Ferenstein
First Published on www.fastcompany.com

"There's certainly not an incapability between doing well and doing good," eccentric billionaire Sir Richard Branson tells Fast Company. Branson's new book, Screw Business As Usual , asks that as long as entrepreneurs can make extraordinary sums of cash while helping others, why do business any other way?  Read more >>

by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
First Published on hbr.org

Traditional theories of the firm are dominated by the notion of opposition between capital and labor, disconnecting business from society and posing conflicts between them. According to this view, companies are nothing more than money-generating machines. By contrast, great companies use a different operating logic.  Read more >>

....For Creating Societal Value
by Roger Martin
First Published on hbr.org

CEOs can use both signals and systems as powerful levers in tilting the focus of their company toward long-term societal value creation — which will take care of their shareholders perfectly well. Read more >>

....About Growth
by Nilofer Merchant 
First Published on hbr.org

Finding that first market — a few customers willing to pay for your early product — is hard enough. But there's one thing that may be even harder. And that's finding the second market. Especially because companies are often so focused on protecting what they already have.  Read more >>