Business Entrepreneurs & Philanthropy: Potential and Pitfalls?

September 28, 2007 In 1991, futurist and noted author Peter Schwartz framed a remarkable period of transformation, which he described as the "long boom" ranging from 1990 to 2020. Schwartz sees a period of economic and societal transformation driven by a continuing stream of new technology and the relentless process of globalization. Now, well past the half-way point of the "long boom," the entrepreneurs of this period have generated a wealth creation of near unimaginable levels, with great impact and implications. Comparisons are often made to the philanthropy of more than a hundred years ago that came from the . . .