Take 135 containers - like shipping containers, but bigger - an imaginative architect, a creative insurance company, and a theatre director - and voila! An uber-hip array of low-cost workspaces. Could that be an option for Lausanne?
That's the wrong focus, says Nancy Lublin, founder of Dress for Success (a non-profit that gave poor women advice and great clothes for job interviews) who now runs DoSomething.org, and has just written Zilch: the power of zero in business. The right focus needs to be effectiveness. The best non-profits have a great deal to teach companies about how to do more with less, and do it in a way that keeps employees and customers delighted.