There is no one formula for sustainable value creation, partly because it is a journey more than an end-state, but also because it depends on the company’s culture, ambitions, market...
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Not long ago, I discovered the project Happy Xmas Trees, when the founder contacted me for a statement. I gladly provided it because the project is a great idea!
This ambitious Danish...
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Reading excerpts from The New Pioneers reminded me of my time at Aravind Eye Hospital in Tamil Nadu in South India, where I spent 2 months in 1995. Back then I had no idea about what...
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The field of social entrepreneurship has over the past five to ten years increasingly attracted public attention. Today dedicated organizations and foundations, online networks and...
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The international band, The Green Children, formed by Norwegian Milla Sunde and British Tom Marlow, use music as a means to convey their messages of social change.
The proceeds from...
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Improving global health is no longer only the job of governments, the EU, the UN or the large number of non-governmental organizations. Drug companies are also putting global health...
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Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. It reduces the consumption...
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Many social entrepreneurs offer new models of sustainable change by blending, generating or even renewing the use of four kinds of capital to create social value:
- Financial capital...
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The market for sustainable products and services appears to be growing stronger year by year. The American market for organic foods, for example, has grown 20% since 1990, and it is...
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Social innovation stems from people’s unfulfilled needs. It creates social value or change and thereby drives social development and renewal in society.
It is society’s hidden growth...
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