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 the Liberal Democrats, talked about their…
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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 World Economic Forum in Africa, in…
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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 loss of biodiversity and freshwater…
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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 wild cards dealt by environment, social…
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Ahead of this month’s Skoll World Forum, McKinsey commissioned a series of essays on social innovation and entrepreneurship from people like Bill Drayton (Chairman and CEO, Ashoka), Sally Osberg (President,…
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On May 4th I will be speaking at the World Economic Forum in Africa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to the audience of over 200 Young Global Leaders of Tomorrow (YGL),…
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Volans is working with Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield University and Accenture on a new work program, provisionally entitled ‘The Second Half’ – and focusing on the over-50s.…
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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 Nestlé Creating Shared Value Advisory Board. And…
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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 2008. Had felt rather grim…
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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 focus on ‘Big Society’, particularly…
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Companies must be willing to give up some control over messaging if they are to be truly transparent in the age of social media, says John in his latest piece…
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330 ha. of deforestation a day are created by the production of charcoal in Tanzania, which is used as cooking fuel by the majority of the population. Solutions like the…
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The University of Plymouth is strongly committed to enterprise and to supporting faculty and staff in entrepreneurial and socially engaged approaches to teaching and research relevant to the private, public…
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Guayaki is a company pioneering an agricultural production model in balance with the forest in South America. It produces mate, the South American tea leaves, by harvesting below the forest…
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Volans has received a grant from the Tellus Mater Foundation to seed fund the Pathways to Scale Program; and support a year-long project to explore how entrepreneurs are mainstreaming the…
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