Leadership Development that Lasts: Using Immersive In-Market Learning Programmes to Drive Business Results
Business and the United Nations
Responsible Business Forum
Scaling Social Business in East Africa
The Role of Business in the Fight Against Slavery
Today, there are an estimated 21 million people in slavery, in every country and region of the globe. 5.5 million of whom are children. Every person who wears cotton, carries a mobile phone, eats prawns or chocolate, or watches the FIFA World Cup, is implicated in this, because many of that 21 million are enslaved […]
Business and the Sustainable Development Goals: Building Blocks for Success at Scale, 27 October, London
Why the “Blood Diamond” Label Keeps Returning
By the time the movie Blood Diamond appeared in 2006, the diamond wars in Sierra Leone, Congo and Angola were over, and after herculean efforts on the part of governments, industry and civil society, the Kimberley Process was up and running. To dredge up old history and to use that term–“blood”–seemed like an unfair and […]
Harnessing Domestic Inclusive Business for Social Impact, 24 September, New York
Business Call to Action Annual Forum 2015, 24 September, New York
Business and the Sustainable Development Goals: Building Blocks for Success at Scale, 25 September, New York
Intrapreneur Lab 2015
A Blueprint for Ethical Supply Chain Management
Marshalls’ supply chain programme in India has made a positive impact on its suppliers and improved the lives of quarry workers and their families. It has also launched Fairstone, an ethically sourced range of natural stone, and partnered with Unicef to support the drive to effect systemic change in the industry. Social impacts Through a […]
A Dialogue on Business Leadership for an Inclusive Economy
Closing Africa's Energy Gap
Closing Africa’s Energy Gap
How Can NGOs Successfully Scale Business Ideas?
The Sharing Economy: Exploring New Business Models for Sustainability
This latest Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility Hot Topic started life as an MBA student assignment for a sustainability assignment. The day I was reading the assignments, by coincidental symmetry, the front page headline in the London Evening Standard read “Spare rooms to let revolution.” The accompanying story was about deregulation specifically to encourage the […]
30% of Businesses Back Human Rights Legal Requirement
It is a fiction that big business rejects all regulation as a burden. Recent Economist research indicates that nearly a third of business leaders see mandatory reporting on human rights for their companies as a good thing. The fact that companies such as Tesco and Marshalls have been lobbying for UK businesses to disclose the […]
Linking savings groups to banks – What works, what doesn’t, what’s next?
Shared Value Leadership Summit
