ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marjorie Kelly is a fellow with the Tellus Institute, a 35-year-old nonprofit research and consulting organization in Boston. She is also director of ownership strategy with Cutting Edge Capital consulting group. She is author of The Divine Right of Capital (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001), named one of Library Journal’s 10 Best Business Books of 2001. For 20 years, Marjorie was president of Business Ethics magazine, which she cofounded. She also cofounded Corporation 20/20, an initiative to envision and advocate enterprise designs that integrate social, environmental, and financial aims. Marjorie advises private firms and is a consultant on projects such as the Wealth Creation in Rural Communities initiative of the Ford Foundation, for which she authored the report Keeping Wealth Local, exploring alternative ownership designs used in rural areas. Marjorie has done unique research on what she calls the “mission-controlled corporation,” such as the foundation-owned Novo Nordisk of Denmark and the family-controlled New York Times, which are publicly traded but have a strong social mission that is protected through dual-class share structures.

She has served on advisory boards for the Center for Corporate Governance and Accountability at George Washington University Law School and the Newsweek listing of the Greenest Big Companies in America, among many others. She speaks often on corporate responsibility and building a new economy, and her writings have appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review, New England Law Review, Strategy and Business, Chief Executive, the Boston Globe, Yes! Magazine, Utne Reader, and the San Francisco Chronicle. See www.MarjorieKelly.com.