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Latest — May 13, 2025

The Art of Gift Giving

By day my friend Gregg Mizuta is a commercial banker. And beyond, well beyond, he is a documenter (photographer with a fantastic eye) and supporter of the arts. He has a quietly big heart, too. Turns out he also has a real knack for gift giving. I know, because I

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Bernie and the Renegade

You’re forgiven if you thought this would be about U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, as a renegade, or about his cross-country tour traveling partner, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, aka AOC, and frequently known by the same descriptor. It’s not even about politics, though it tiptoes into those waters,

Oliver Russell 2024 Impact Report

Friends, Welcome to this year’s impact report, where we capsulize the public benefit Oliver Russell created throughout 2024. My company, Oliver Russell, was founded in 1991 became and became a Certified B Corporation in 2011 and Idaho’s first benefit corporation in 2015. Today, the company really is just

The Dirty Little Secret of Benefit Corporations

It seems as if public benefit corporation (PBC) designation has become the soup de jour for some high-flying companies lately, noticeably in the tech space. OpenAI is making noise about converting into a benefit corporation. One of its rivals in the AI space, Anthropic, is already a benefit corporation, as

13 Ways of Looking at AI

A poetic musing today – it’s National Poetry Month after all, which I’ve foreshadowed aplenty in recent issues – though to hold the line a bit today’s writing does have overlap with business and technology. I first encountered the poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird in college,

The Prank That Took on a Life of Its Own

The congratulations are still rolling in, and I’m feeling a wee bit sheepish. A bit of an imp, a rascal. Last week for April Fools I pulled a prank. I wrote here that I would be accepting the role of social mission director for Ben & Jerry’s. Note

A Strip Tease and More

I’m all over the place these days, as in my internal wavelength is super erratic. (You, too? Hmm…) So, I’m just going to go with it and take advantage of my attention deficit and paroxysms by throwing a little springtime smorgasbord at you all today. Now, where should

Can Ben & Jerry's Founders Rescue Their Activist Brand from Unilever's Freezer?

I had my first taste of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream (Fudge Brownie!) about half a lifetime ago on a ski trip to Lake Placid, NY. And while I do love their ice cream and supreme creativity in product naming (Cherry Garcia, Chubby Hubby, etc.), Ben & Jerry’s

Welcome to Generation B

March is the month of Ides, Madness, Mania – and B Corps. That’s right, the third month of the year is B Corp Month, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to educate and update you all on the B Corp movement. Now I recognize we’ve got