Christine Haskell

92 posts
Christine is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft with several years experience in the .com industry. She recently started social venture labs, an idea incubator for those leading small mission-driven businesses or organizations looking to create relationships, share ideas and get feedback on common business practices. She is new to StartupNation, and looking to profile mission driven companies and discusses related themes.
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Giving is the new taking….

There are precious few examples of corporations ditching the greed and embracing generosity. President Obama's speah highlighted a CEO who distributed his bonus across his workers (past and present) - who does that??? (a true leader) And what...
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Creative Business Model: Knitting Grannies

Modeled after Swiss and Danish efforts which sell knit goods handmade by real-life grandmothers, French based Golden Hook is a company that lets customers design their own hat and then choose the grandmother they'd like to...
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And…We’re Back

I know, it's been a while since I've blogged. I fell of the wagon and was busy consulting.   At the beginning of each year, I’ve taken to reading Drucker’s Managing One’s Self; I did a...
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Con-Post: Prisons focus on greening too

Being sustainable is something that everybody is doing, no matter where they are in life. Interesting article from MSNBC Inmates of the minimum-security facility, 25 miles from Olympia, the state capital, raise bees, grow organic...
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Being Green, one element at a time…

I met John Barboni following a rather powerful presentation on the societal impacts of consumption given by his colleague David O'Higgins and Jason Levine. Barboni and O'Higgins have formed an interesting partnership with architects Tom...
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Hay Hotels…Anyone?

Interesting article in the NYTimes: Leave it to the Germans to combine livestock with lodging. In the last decade, hundreds of farms throughout Germany have transformed old barns and potato warehouses into heuhotels, or hay...
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Do you measure “the goods?”

Nations measure GDP. Big Businesses measure Profit and Revenue. Small Businesses measure People measure...their weight. Is the focus on these measures getting us to where we need to be? Probably not. Think about it: if...
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Ant or Grasshopper?

Do you plan for a crisis? Of course not. But you can plan yourself out of one! Let me weigh in here with another question: Who do you want to be? The person who goes...
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Hey, Green Business, is regulation a good idea?

·         How does environmental regulation affect your small businesses? o    Additional taxes? o    Ability to get loans? Credit? o    Required compliance to unnecissary rules? ·         Are self governing goal setting more effective? How have you...
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Getting On The List

I just attended an event where Edie Hilliard gave a short talk on her experience in the radio industry. We all want to be “on the list.” It almost doesn’t matter which one—it could be...
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Buzz Term: Sustainability

from The Environmental Leader... The term “sustainability” peaked on blogs, boards and discussion groups after the February 25 telecast of The Oscars as Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” took home the Oscar for Documentary Feature. Nonetheless,...
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What story are you telling?

In a recent blog post Drew McLellan tells the story of a 1989 campaign from Crowley Webb for Garcia's Irish Pub in Buffalo, New York. "[This] most brilliant outdoor campaign broke every one of these rules,"...