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High-Tech Tackling The Climate Crisis
Intel, the global computing giant, just released its 2030 Strategy and Goals, outlining its next decade of shared corporate responsibility, and building on Intel’s ongoing commitments. Intel is undertaking three specific global challenges to: Revolutionize health and safety with technology Make technology fully inclusive and expand...
Read MoreKindness, Compassion and Empathy: Vital During the Coronavirus
The Coronavirus pandemic has taken a large toll on most people’s physical and mental well-being. In times of hardship, when we are challenged the most, it is the way we respond that defines us. Now more than ever, it’s vital...
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Leading In Uncertainty
As most of the world is experiencing uncertainty and stress, this is the time for business leaders to step up and light the torch that will help us all navigate the ambiguity ahead. Those who lead with clarity, optimism, and vulnerability will...
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Defining Courage In Leaders
In the first of a series of Handshake interviews, Courageous Leaders: Profiles of Impact Executives, JR Kerr and Cardinal Turkson discussed a defining characteristic of all leaders: courage. The Impact Executive possesses five strong virtues: transparency, empathy, wisdom, humility, and...
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August Map of the Month: Women’s Empowerment
In this month’s Map of the Month, Handshake explores the topic of women’s empowerment by looking at the individuals and organizations making a commitment to gender equality as part of their work. Through our research, we found that the broad...
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A Tale of Two Networks
For the July Map of the Month series, Handshake analyzed the networks of two of the most prominent UN Sustainable Development Goals: SDG 3: Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-Being for All at All Ages SDG 6: Ensure Availability and...
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The Strength Test: Making An Impact In A Networked Age
A digital world is a networked world, where the structure and flow of information can shape an issue, sometimes more than the ideas themselves. Across our daily and increasingly digital conversations, the ways that different perspectives and ideas are brought into...
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The Network of Sustainable Markets
As we live through a transformational shift to an increasingly digital and automated economy, we must overcome the reality that economic growth remains unevenly distributed throughout the world. While millions have enjoyed new levels of prosperity, many still live in...
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Map of the Month: Global Plastics
Maps have always reflected the way we have understood the world around us and the uncharted frontiers we have yet to cross. With this post, Handshake inaugurates its “Map of the Month” series, where we look at the networks of...
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Social Impact, Scooters & SXSW
This year at SXSW in Austin, Handshake kicked off the week by presenting the official SXSW Social & Global Impact Opening Party on Friday, March 8 in collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation. The event gathered hundreds of influencers, storytellers, and...
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Analyzing the News to Build Influence
To help our clients use their business model to build their influence and reputation, Handshake has developed Navigator, a business intelligence platform based on network science. As we have previously written, “Networks are made up of people and organizations sharing...
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Five Steps to Scaling Impact and Communicating Value
We recently wrote about the important value proposition for businesses in meeting the public’s desire to see data, outcomes, and impact when reporting information on a company’s CSR/sustainability information. We noted that Handshake’s research shows that the public wants companies...
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