Wednesday, September 25, 2024
I have mixed feelings about #ClimateWeek, unfolding in NYC this week to coincide with proceedings at the United Nations General Assembly. It’s a little like the “patient safety” department in a hospital. A department? Isn’t patient safety the first responsibility of everyone?! A week? Isn’t preserving a stable climate everyone’s responsibility every day?
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
In Minneapolis for a convening to help build “an Intersectional Philanthropic Approach: Climate Change, Agriculture, and Healthy Rural Communities”, I am reflecting on a film we made in 2009. Hope in a Changing Climate premiered at Agriculture and Rural Development Day at COP 15, the goals of which are described below in the report from the International Institute for Sustainable Development.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
My experience this week at Heathrow is a small but telling example of the global risk many businesses face: multiple systems failing simultaneously.
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
I have never been to the Russian Air Base on the Eastern edge of Ukraine in Millerovo, where attack helicopters, tanks, armored personnel carriers, and ground forces have begun the Russian invasion. The last time I was in eastern Ukraine, in Luhansk (about 60 miles from Millerovo), I visited a military plant that was then converting to syringe manufacturing. I was with Yuri Shchekochikhin who represented the region as a member of Parliament.
Monday, January 11, 2021
Fear, collusion, and incompetence are a deadly combination. That we couldn't defend the Capitol from an insurrectionist mob was a failure not of intelligence but a failure to be intelligent.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
We all now have personal experience with the collapse of supply chains: toilet paper, produce, meat, flour. They are more fragile than we knew, for many reasons.
Friday, October 25, 2019
Following sessions with the Global Alliance for the Future of Food (NYC) and The Emerson Collective (CA), Jonathan J. Halperin addressed the audience at The Chesapeake Food Summit (DC), urging participants to let go of the myth of a “neat, clear, linear supply chain. It’s a web, a network, a system. We all need to think in systems. Systems connect silos.”
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Helsinki was not an aberration. It is time we stopped being shocked. Trump and Putin share common goals and values: absolute need for loyalty, disdain for free and fair elections, willingness to use and discard people, and antipathy toward media.
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Purpose seems to be catching fire. Empowered by yet another horrendous school massacre, students from Parkland have changed the American conversation in a momentous way.
Monday, June 11, 2018
The technologies we embrace reflect social and business values. But whether they embody our personal values is another question entirely.
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Jonathan Halperin (Head of External Affairs) and Mike Brady (CEO) discuss Greyston's Open Hiring model and their plans to support other companies in its adoption. (Transform Finance Investor Network Webinar, January 24, 2018)
Friday, December 8, 2017
Many corporate leaders still wonder both what purpose looks like operationally and whether it really generates value.
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
When we first started working with Greyston--New York's first registered benefit corporation, a hybrid social enterprise, and a world-class bakery--its history was rich and its story powerful.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Jonathan J. Halperin at the Smart on Crime Innovations Conference at John Jay College (October 10, 2017, New York, NY)
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Jonathan J. Halperin gives Plenary Presentation at
PRME Regional Meeting Agenda, College of Business and Economics, University of Guelph
(October 19, 2017, Guelph, Ontario)
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Jonathan Halperin "Open Hiring at Greyston Bakery and Beyond" (October 19, 2017)
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Jonathan J. Halperin discusses Greyston's Open Hiring (August 1, 2017)
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Jonathan J. Halperin quoted in Entrepreneur (August 18, 2017)
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
“We don’t hire people to make brownies. We make brownies to hire people. As businesspeople, that means that we are people doing business, but the people part does have to come first.”
Jonathan J. Halperin quoted in beyond (June 21, 2017)
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Leaders, change agents and entrepreneurs from the business, academic, nonprofit and government sectors gather June 14-16 at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Today is the day we each need to decide: Do we want a society that is more inclusive or more exclusive? That is the question asked and answered by this small bakery with a great, big mission. (By Mike Brady, Chief Executive Officer & Jonathan J. Halperin, Head of External Affairs)
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Jonathan J. Halperin joins a panel to offer insights on what being an inclusive company means, why it matters and what you can do to bring diversity to your organization. (May 15; Washington, DC; Free, Registration Required)
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
From an idea in a living room six years ago, Mundo Verde PCS has grown into a nurturing environment for 538 students in Washington, DC, with two buildings, cisterns, raised vegetable beds, and nearly 100 full-time staff. It is a school, yet so much more. Serving students from PreK – 4th grade, Mundo Verde is an Ashoka Changemaker School and recipient of the Secretary of Education’s Green Ribbon School award. I am honored to have been involved as a founding board member and now as designer and champion of the TeachFood! program.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Five years ago today, as the consequences of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown were still emerging, The New York Times published my letter observing that “trust comes not from repeated and paternalistic proclamations of success, but rather from the humble admission of mistakes followed by demonstrable changes in behavior and attitude.”
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Across the American presidential campaign landscape, change might look like a neo-fascist with a toupee, a scrappy septuagenarian democratic socialist, or the familiar face of a woman who might become our first female president. Quite a spectacle we present to the world.
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
"If Chipotle is going to continue to provide an alternative model to processed, industrial food, it needs to also be at the forefront of creating systems to support that new approach, such as offering its employees paid sick days. Chipotle and its customers are now paying the price for leadership not having made that connection for 20-years before offering paid sick-leave in 2015.” - Jonathan J. Halperin quoted in Forbes (January 6, 2016)
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Pondering the categories and labels that we come to accept as fixed and true.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Chipotle lost about one-third of its pork supply early in 2015 and signs popped-up in roughly 500 restaurants announcing that “carnitas” was unavailable. From the corporate HQ, PR Director Chris Arnold positioned his company’s handling of this supply shortfall as evidence that it stands behind its brand that promises “food with integrity.” Indeed, Chipotle did the right thing in deciding to curtail purchases from a supplier that violated its animal welfare pledges and in refusing to substitute substandard product to make up for that shortfall. But...
Friday, January 16, 2015
Jonathan J. Halperin in Forbes (January 16, 2015)
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Beginning with a presentation at the FMI/GMA Sustainability Summit in August, I’ve been engaged for months in an intense set of ongoing conversations about food: past, present, and future.
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