{"id":6637,"date":"2019-02-13T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2019-09-29T20:06:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:06:53","slug":"how-companies-can-balance-social-impact-and-financial-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/how-companies-can-balance-social-impact-and-financial-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2018\/12\/Jan19_4_826097122.jpg\">This is a terrific HBR article discussing how companies can build strategies to balance two equally important missions.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2019\/01\/how-companies-can-balance-social-impact-and-financial-goals\">How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Executive Summary It&#8217;s notoriously difficult for a business to manage two separate-but-equal goals &#8211; making money and creating social value at the same time, for example, or managing an existing business at the same time that you invent a new one. Most attempts at managing these &#8220;strategic paradoxes&#8221; fail because they&#8217;re not managed carefully and consistently.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a terrific HBR article discussing how companies can build strategies to balance two equally important missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2018\/12\/Jan19_4_826097122.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45],"class_list":{"0":"post-6637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-leadership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7966,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions\/7966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}