Nick Clegg weighs in on Scale

Sam Lakha

April 29, 2010

Last Sunday, John Elkington was part of the invited audience at a Lib-Dem ‘rally’ at the Work Foundation event, where Nick Clegg, leader of... More...

Artist’s view of Pathways to Scale

Alejandro Litovsky

April 28, 2010

The visual artist, Alfredo Carlo of the The Value Web, has created a version of the Pathways to Scale 5-stage model, to be presented at the... More...

Brazil workshop: Business in the Biosphere

Alejandro Litovsky

April 27, 2010

In Brazil, as elsewhere around the world, corporate strategies, operations and brands are confronted with growing pressure on natural ecosystems. Deforestation in the Amazon, the... More...

Fast Company Series on C-Suite Agenda

John Elkington

April 23, 2010

In a new 7-blog series for Fast Company magazine, Charmian Love and I look at how key C-Suite players are coping with the new... More...

McKinsey Essay on Paradigm Shifting

John Elkington

Ahead of this month’s Skoll World Forum, McKinsey commissioned a series of essays on social innovation and entrepreneurship from people like Bill Drayton... More...

Biosphere Economy at World Economic Forum

Alejandro Litovsky

April 22, 2010

On May 4th I will be speaking at the World Economic Forum in Africa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to the audience of over 200 More...

Marc Freedman: Generativity

John Elkington

Volans is working with Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield University and Accenture on a new work program, provisionally entitled ‘The Second Half’... More...

Goodbye, C.K.

John Elkington

April 17, 2010

I didn’t really know Professor C.K. Prahalad, who has sadly just died aged 68, though we had met through our shared membership of the... More...

Intelligent Sustainability at SAP

John Elkington

April 15, 2010

Spent the day with SAP and an audience of their customers, near Heathrow. The theme: Intelligent Sustainability. They have energetically embraced the sustainability agenda since... More...

David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’

John Elkington

Am planning this evening to watch the first-ever Presidential-style debate between the leaders of the three main UK political parties. Am intrigued by David Cameron’s... More...