Impact Investing: The Sweet Spot of Recycling, Investing, Jobs and Sustainability
As global business leaders, we have a powerful opportunity, and responsibility, to accelerate the pace of social, environmental and economic value creation.
Social Enterprise Incubators are Making a World of Difference
Startup incubators are showing how seed capital, shared office space, purpose-driven mentors and venture philanthropist connections can save the world.
Responsible Business Models Unlock Market Worth US$12 Trillion
There's a US$12 trillion economic prize for businesses that develop responsible models as part of their core strategy.
How to Identify a Social Purpose Business.
A recent UK report found that companies with a social mission have a significant competitive advantage when attracting and retaining employees.
Proactive Water Stewardship is Good for Planet and Profit
Business must take a close look at the shared challenges related to water, such as: quality or quantity issues; failure to protect the water source, or political uncertainty.
Marketers: Reassure Consumers that Sustainable Products are Part of a Larger Solution
Consumers need to be reassured that their purchases are part of a larger solution. They don’t want to feel like they’re fighting a losing battle or that they are the only ones making sacrifices.
Shared Value Starts with Embedding a Social Mission into the Corporate Culture
Creating shared value entails embedding a social mission in the corporate culture and channeling resources to the development of innovations that can help solve social problems.
Can the “Shared Value” promise resonate with the ‘square people’?
I believe that even if it might take a while longer companies will eventually understand that shared value pays and embrace it one way or another. This is great because the challenge now as Porter explains is for shared value to evolve from an idea into a movement, and to do so you need many more companies on board.