How happy you are may depend on where you live? Or at least be determined by your country’s access to health care, ease of jobs and wealth, and ability to attend school. Continue Reading →
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Diamonds, and Fair Labor, Are Forever
San Francisco-based Brilliant Earth’s motto is “Luxury With a Conscience” to sell its conflict-free diamond and gold jewelry.
Brilliant Earth grew out of a marriage proposal. After Beth’s fiance could not find a reliable source that could guarantee conflict free diamonds, Beth Gerstein and Eric Grossberg created Brilliant Earth to provide certified conflict free diamonds as an alternative to current diamond industry practices. Continue Reading →
Silicon Valley IP: Location, Location, Innovation!
THE HEADLINE:
Silicon Valley, the global nexus of talent, capital and innovation based in the the 8-million strong Bay Area of Northern California, is top of the heap for US Patents issued to individual inventors or companies large and small in 2005, reports the WSJ.com July 22-23 edition in combination with primary research and analysis performed by iPiQ of patents issued. Continue Reading →
HI + IP = HIP too!
An innovative Chicago company named ipIQ (“intellectual property Intelligence Quotient”), chaired by IBM veteran Bob Howe, is quantifying and indexing Intellectual Property (IP) performance — and rank-ordering companies, industries and geographies.
So, with oil prices near $80 per barrel, how innovative are Energy and Environmental firms? Not very, according to ipIQ: Continue Reading →
Petition to SEC: Climate Change Affects Profits?
Hurricane Katrina proved that weather impacts the economy – energy supply constraints pushed up prices; agriculture and manufacturing exports were restricted by the flooding of the Mississippi; and massive displacement of workers into Houston and out of New Orleans caused mutliple ripple effects. Continue Reading →
Welcome to The HIP Investor
Great investing is HIP, as in:
“Human Impact” + “Profit” = HIP investing
The HIP Investor blog outlines the spectrum of ways that you as an investor can make a net positive human impact on the world while also earning financial returns from profitable ventures. Continue Reading →
“The HIP Scorecard” Featured in April Issue of Fast Company magazine
The April issue of Fast Company magazine features an analysis of 21 public companies, quantifying their HIP Practices and HIP Revenues.
A new way of looking at the human side of investing with the HIP (that’s Human Impact + Profit) Scorecard. For this analysis, Fast Company teamed up with two San Francisco-based firms, HIP Investor and SVT Group, to evaluate and rate publicly listed companies. Our goal: to look beyond good intentions and focus on concrete results–how human impact drives the bottom line–as a guide for investors seeking to generate compelling returns and benefit society.
See The HIP Scorecard now.
