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Gary Douglas, the creator of Access Consciousness®, recently announced his views on how companies can capitalize on conscious capitalism. He reveals three ways businesses can introduce this concept to enhance their operations. SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (PRWEB) June 13, 2013 Access Consciousness® Founder Gary Douglas recently shared his perspective on how businesses can leverage conscious capitalism. According to John Mackey, Harvard Business Review, 18 out of 28 companies adopting...
NEW YORK, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross National Happiness Quotient took a marked upswing today with the launch of Happy Fuel LLC. This launch represents not only the launch of a new company but of a new form of media, "happy media." Happy Fuel's debut product is the : ) fuel( )(TM)( )app, now available at the Apple App Store. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130521/NY18114 ) The : ) fuel( )(TM) app( )(pronounced happy fuel) is a social application that fuels...
Salon Series Introduces Concepts Behind Powerful New Business Model SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Designed to introduce the powerful ideas behind Conscious Capitalism, a series of six interactive salons in San Francisco, Berkeley and Stanford have fired up Bay Area executives, business professionals, entrepreneurs, university professors and students. The engaging events were a prelude to the Conscious Capitalism 2013 conference taking place April 5 & 6 in San...
Pioneering Business Leaders Demonstrate How to Put Conscious Capitalism to Work SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Some of today's most successful business leaders, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders will convene for Conscious Capitalism 2013 in San Francisco on Friday & Saturday, April 5 & 6, to share stories and best practices for putting Conscious Capitalism to work. Designed for business owners, executives, non-profits and students who want to understand the...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers from the University College London recently found that children who have a happy childhood have a greater likelihood of growing up into adults who are wealthy. The study is considered the first in-depth investigation to look at the impact of youthful happiness in future wealth. The finding that happy kids were more likely to earn higher levels of income as adults was discovered Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, a professor of...
TORONTO, Aug. 2, 2012 /CNW/ - To revitalize its flagging trade and productivity performance, Canada should adapt its international trade and investment policies to a world of global value chains, evolving trade and investment patterns, and deepening economic integration; according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In "Breaking Free: A Post-mercantilist Trade and Productivity Agenda for Canada," Research Fellow Michael Hart says to be more competitive, Canada needs to...
Money doesn’t buy happiness. Neither does materialism: Research shows that people who place a high value on wealth, status, and stuff are more depressed and anxious and less sociable than those who do not. Now new research shows that materialism is not just a personal problem. It’s also environmental. “We found that irrespective of personality, in situations that activate a consumer mindset, people show the same sorts of problematic patterns in wellbeing, including negative affect and...
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When asked about the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, expressed approval. But he said the protest doesn't go far enough. "The only solution to the world's problem is paradism," he said in a statement released today. Rael officially launched the societal concept of paradism in 2009, explaining it as a form of communism without a proletariat and without banks or money. Under paradism,...
EX- HOUSE AGING COMMITTEE DIRECTOR AND ECONOMIC ANALYST CITE 5.4% GDP GROWTH UNDER DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS SINCE 1930 VS. 1.4% UNDER REPUBLICANS STATE IS "MYTH" THAT WEALTHY TAX CUTS CREATE JOBS; MAKE CASE NOT TO CUT MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY WASHINGTON, July 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Trickle-down Economics Hasn't Worked since Herbert Hoover," say Bob Weiner, former House Aging Committee Chief of Staff under Chairman Claude Pepper (D-FL) and later a White House Spokesman, and...
People living in countries with governments that have a greater number of social services report being more satisfied with life, according to a study by a Baylor University researcher.Dr. Patrick Flavin, assistant professor of political science at Baylor, said the effect of state intervention into the economy equaled or exceeded marriage when it came to satisfaction. The study is published in the spring issue of the journal Politics & Policy.Free market capitalism has been championed by...
