Social business models have found a new platform … the Venice Biennale! The major theme of the Biennale changes from year to year and the focus in 2008 is architecture…
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A phenomenally busy week, including a session with Singapore’s Economic Development Board on Monday, a highly successful joint SustainAbility-Volans evening event at The Hub (one of our Trailblazer organisations) on…
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A column I co-authored with Pierre-François Thaler and Sylvain Guyoton of EcoVadis, one of our Trailblazers, appeared in yesterday’s issue of Le Monde. It explores similarities between the U.S. suprime…
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Many interesting social entrepreneurs drop by the Volans office in London and in these disruptive times of financial crisis it is especially heartening to hear their stories and appreciate the…
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On the surface, India is quite frightening. It has a population of 1 billion and growing- most of them living in squalor. Raw sewage flows through many streets and traffic…
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Ian Shapira from the Washington Post writes about the current generation of people in their 20s and early-30s looking to effect social change by leveraging social entrepreneurship models. Pamela Hartigan,…
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I’ve just completed a two-day planning trip for a Volans Connects engagement in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This engagement will involve a major multi-national professional services firm (name withheld for confidentiality…
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As I pushed my cycle through the front door last night after arriving back late from Volans, Elaine asked me whether I wanted to watch Simon Schama on BBC –…
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Some thoughts on the links between the credit crunch and the looming ecological credit crunch – including the climate crunch – are presented in an editorial by John Elkington and…
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Took part today in a so-called Roundtable for the Fortune Global 500 in the BT Tower, though the event was mainly held in a small auditorium. Theme was global innovation,…
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This interview popped up today in the ‘Movers & Shakers’ section of Times Online , drawing on an interview I did a long time back. A still earlier interview in…
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This evening, Alejandro, Charmian, Sam, Smita and I made our way across to King’s Cross from Volans for the launch of the new Hub in York Way, where I’m an…
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From Mumbai – I was last in Mumbai 37 years ago – and while I have been to India many times since, I had not been back to this city…
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“Influence is about power — the power to shape our lives, our thinking, and our environment,” The Evening Standard began its introduction to its 2008 listing of the ’1000 Most…
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Flew to Fort Myers, Florida, via Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday, to speak at a Novo Nordisk session here in Naples yesterday. Nice to catch up with, among others, Flemming…
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