We Can Still Decide to End This Plague BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share This Covid dominated period our global human society is going through gives me a partial sense of […]
Perspectives: A Shocking Decision
Are We in a New Era of Judicial Activism? BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share A truly astounding event occurred this past week. […]
Perspectives: Gratitude and Hope
Seeing a Better Future Can be a State of Mind BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share The Economist cover from […]
Perspectives: A Spacecraft Named Resilience
More Than a Rocket, a Metaphor for Our Times BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share The crew capsule aboard the Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket that NASA successfully blasted […]
Perspectives: Business Leadership and the Paris Accords
Economically Motivated Environmentalism BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share November fourth was an incredibly important day. Not just […]
Perspectives: Packing The Court?
Reform is Better than Revolution BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share What does it mean to […]
Perspectives: Stakeholder Capitalism and COVID-19
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Perspectives: Welcome to the New Business Paradigm
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A Mission that has Withstood the Test of Time
Thirty-four years ago, the World Business Academy was founded on the same mission that drives it today. In 1994, over a quarter of a century ago, the nonprofit had its mission beautifully scripted in what now hangs upon entry to our office in Santa Barbara in 2020. World Business Academy Founding President and CEO, Rinaldo […]
2020 World Economic Forum Meeting: Welcome to the New Business Paradigm
In January, the World Economic Forum (WEF) hosted its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. This year, however, there was a new agenda: build a sustainability strategy for the future of business that implements the long-standing “stakeholder capitalism” missions of the World Business Academy and JUST Capital. Following Business Roundtable’s 2019 announcement outlining a new statement of purpose for corporations to serve all […]
Making Isla Vista the First Carbon Neutral Community by 2025
David Gershon will discuss the necessary steps to creating a carbon neutral community by 2025 with University of California, Santa Barbara students and Isla Vista community members on February 19th, 2020. SANTA BARBARA, CA — David Gershon, a senior Fellow of the World Business Academy and the founder of the Empowerment Institute, an organization […]
Summers McKay Named CEO of The Optimist Daily
SANTA BARBARA, California – The Optimist Daily welcomes Summers McKay as its new CEO. A positive-news media production and publishing organization, The Optimist Daily is a perfect fit for McKay, a genuinely upbeat person who remarkably has taken on her new role as CEO at the same time she’s taken on another role of a lifetime: […]