Mackey, Rao Gupta, Prahalad, Lazarus and Gates gather, from left to right, for TIME's panel on creative capitalism.
Last January Bill Gates gave a groundbreaking speech on "creative capitalism" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here's what we heard: one of the greatest capitalists in the history of the world suggesting that capitalism wasn't working all that well for almost half the people on the planet. He was in effect proposing a third way--the notion that profit and social responsibility were not mutually exclusive.
I was very taken with the idea and asked if he might elaborate on it for TIME. Thus began a rewarding collaboration that yielded his powerful piece in this week's issue--part of our...
