Last week The New York Times published an article called “But Will it Make You Happy?” and it quickly made the rounds among my friends and family. 
The article centers on the idea that “Conspicuous Consumption” – or the idea of buying “without regard” – is out.
Instead, Americans today are not only consuming (and spending) less, [...]

Hello everyone!
I am back from my cross country road trip and happy to report I am officially based in the San Francisco Bay Area again.
I have many stories to share from the road, but before I recap my trip, I wanted to give a quick plug for my friend and fellow Twitterer Aman Singh Das, Corporate [...]

I’m thrilled to announce that in two weeks I’ll be graduating from business school!
As unbelievable as it sounds (even when I say it), the end of my MBA program is amazingly just around the corner. While it hasn’t always been fun – derivative equations in economics class come to mind – it has been an [...]

Dan Bross is senior director, Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft and one of the most visible faces of corporate social responsibility at the company.
I first met Dan at the 2009 Net Impact Conference and recently we had the chance to reconnect at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference.
In between networking and learning at BCCCC, [...]

One of the benefits of a conference like this one put on by Boston College’s Center for Corporate Citizenship is the opportunity for CSR professionals to network, share ideas, and learn from one another. In no other session has this experience been more true than in today’s panel: “Corporate Citizenship Journey – What have we [...]

“How many of you would call yourself a social intrapreneur?”
This was the question that Mark Feldman, managing director of Cause Consulting posed to the fifty attendees at this morning’s Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference breakout session, “The Business of Corporate Citizenship: Creating New Social Ventures within Your Company.”
A quick glance around the room showed only [...]

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be live blogging (and tweeting!) from this year’s Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference April 11 – 13.
In case you’re not familiar with it, the BCCCC hosts an incredible conference each year that includes a “Who’s Who” list of CSR, sustainability, and philanthropy professionals from around the [...]

In the grand scheme of things, Corporate Social Responsibility is still an emerging field, which means that everything – from general strategy to best practices – is still being solidified.
One of the questions that is still debated quite often in the CSR community concerns the “business case” for this kind of work.
In a world where [...]

With just over two months left until I graduate from business school, I’ve started to reflect on what I’ve accomplished over the last two years.
Without a doubt, the most fulfilling experiences of my MBA program have been the chances I’ve had to engage in real-world consulting projects for corporate and nonprofit clients.
In the last four [...]

These days I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about consumers and the brands they love.
I’m taking a Branding class this semester, and each week we do a case study of a different company and the branding challenges it faces.
Perhaps the biggest insight I’ve gleaned from the first couple of months is this:
Consumers own brands, [...]