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Monthly Archives: May 2010

BP’s Agonies Herald Transparent Economy

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, for those watching from the sidelines. But, for me, the Deepwater Horizon tragedy signals the new market dynamics we discuss in our new report, The… More…

IDE Wins First Nestlé Creating Shared Value Prize

This week, Volans was a key player in the first Creating Shared Value Forum to be held in London. During the Forum, the first Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value… More…

HBR Case Commentary

In this month’s issue of Harvard Business Review, Charmian Love, Volans’ Chief Executive, provides her perspective in a case commentary ‘When  the CEO’s Personal Crusade Drives Decisions’.   You can review… More…

$137 million microinsurance fund

Last week Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced that after 18 months of fundraising,  they were pleased to announce the world’s first microinsurance fund.  LeapFrog Investments surpassed their target of $100… More…

Green secrets to be shared with industry

An initiative to promote environmental thinking in global manufacturing was announced yesterday through a move by two entrepreneurs to give away their commercial secrets to a new non-profit organisation in… More…

Here comes The Biosphere Economy

John Elkington talks TEEB in an blog for CSRWire Talkback: read the post here

On Sustainability Reporting Trends

John was filmed discussing the shift in corporate sustainability from push reporting to pull reporting at the SAPPHIRE NOW Conference in Frankfurt this week: watch the video here.

Employee Engagement doesn’t need to break the bank

McKinsey recently came out with a study which shows that employee engagement doesn’t necessarily need to be a big ticket item at budget time – social capital can be just… More…

Nick Hurd and the future of Office of the Third Sector

There has been a buzz in the UK social enterprise world about the inevitable announcement of Nick Hurd as Minister of what-was-formally-known-as The Office of the Third Sector.   It looks… More…

Launching Ecological Footprint Survey

How can we accelerate the use of new metrics for a Biosphere Economy? The Global Footprint Network and Volans are asking people in government and international agencies how decision makers address… More…

Volkswagen: Scale the Biosphere Economy

“The Biosphere Economy will be timely discussed by 20 global companies from different countries and industries” said today Frank Werner, Director Global Capacity Building and European Operations for the World Environment… More…

HP launches National Lab Day

HP is supporting National Lab Day, a series of programs that promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) education. In the press release, you can also learn about the range of… More…

Carbon Footprint 101

I have an embarrassing secret.  Until today, I probably could not have told you what my carbon footprint was within any reasonable range. But after hearing Mike Berners-Lee talk about… More…

Brilliant Ideas: Spigit inspires innovation

Spigit is a sign of the times.  As more and more companies recognize the importance of unleashing the innovative potential of their employees, software systems such as Spigit are going… More…

HP CMO Profiled on Mad Money

HP CMO Michael Mendenhall was invited to the set of Jim Cramer’s popular US television show ‘MAD MONEY’ to talk about how HP ended up on the Newsweek Cover as… More…

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