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Combatting diabetes: Some things money can’t buy
TweetNovember 27, 2012TweetStrong oil prices have bankrolled an affluent lifestyle in the Middle East’s Gulf region, with deadly consequences.
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Dream your way to success
TweetAugust 1, 2012TweetBusiness schools give you the tools: financial literacy, management and economic theory, marketing… it’s how you put it all together in the working world that determines success...
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From Port Sunlight to Sao Paulo
TweetAugust 1, 2012TweetUnilever is esteemed by many as an example of a company which integrated sustainability into its business model nearly a hundred years before CSR and sustainability became the...
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Health Care and Social Networks: Creating an Online Patient Community
TweetNovember 27, 2012TweetWhen Jamie Heywood co-founded PatientsLikeMe in 2004, he was focused on the ultimate bottom line: trying to save his brother’s life.
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Going Green – Or Else: The Dilemma Facing Abu Dhabi
TweetDecember 3, 2012TweetClimate change is prompting many governments to rethink their energy policies and reduce carbon emissions. In the Middle East, major oil exporter Abu Dhabi is spending tens of...
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When Investing Has an Impact
TweetNovember 1, 2012TweetIt began as an exchange of pleasantries, a chance meeting in an office corridor between the regional heads of two leading Swiss banks. The conversation between the men, both...
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Can Value Innovations Save Healthcare?
TweetDecember 6, 2012TweetIn the wake of the financial crash of 2008 the healthcare sector is struggling more than most to adapt to new business challenges and move from short-term budget balancing to...
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Today’s Investor Also Wants a Different Kind of Return on His Money
TweetSeptember 5, 2012TweetIt’s called “Social Impact Investing”, and it can mean investing in anything from preventing prisoner recidivism in the context of a “social impact bond” in the UK to giving...
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Battle for the Boardroom
TweetSeptember 24, 2012TweetThe backlash began in the years immediately following the financial crisis: an angry public driving precarious Western governments to enact legislation and regulation...
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The Carbon Conundrum
TweetApril 2, 2013TweetU.S. President Barack Obama wants the U.S. Congress to revive a failed “cap-and-trade” bill that would put the U.S. on the road to an environmental policy – a policy departure...
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Corporate Governance in a Developing World
TweetDecember 18, 2012TweetTen years ago there was no Arabic term for “corporate governance” in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – a region dominated by family and state-owned...
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Is Social Enterprise Sustainable?
TweetAugust 7, 2012TweetWhen Filipe Santos began teaching Social Enterprise at INSEAD in 2004 very few of his students had any interest in developing businesses which had a social impact. Now more than...
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Investment Banking for Social Enterprise
TweetMay 7, 2013TweetIn 2007, Toby Eccles, who was then working with Sir Ronald Cohen in the UK Treasury’s Commission on Unclaimed Assets, saw that the gap between the social enterprise and the ‘money’...
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Staking the firm’s place in multiple societies
TweetMay 3, 2013TweetMore than half of all companies in the S&P 500 index and Fortune 500 are now publishing sustainability reports. In Asia, the phenomenon is growing too. While only 14 percent of...
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CSR in Saudi Arabia: Far Behind or another Path?
TweetMay 7, 2013TweetThe region’s CSR focus on charity is explained by the general perception that CSR is a corporate form of Zakat, one of Islam’s five pillars, which stipulates that Muslims give a...
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Sir Ronald Cohen: Venture Capitalist to Social Capitalist
TweetSeptember 5, 2012TweetOn the face of it modern day venture capitalism would seem to be the polar opposite of social enterprise. Venture capitalists are in business to make a quick – often...
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Winning the Hearts of Communities
TweetJune 4, 2013TweetMany of the world’s leading industrial centres – from Silicon Valley (high tech) to Switzerland (watches), Tokyo (consumer electronics) and Stuttgart (autos) – reached critical...
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Is There Life After an MBA?
TweetAugust 1, 2012TweetMBA graduates in the popular imagination probably look something like this: a man or woman in a custom-tailored Italian suit losing sleep on spreadsheets and racing through...
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Social Impact & the Bottom Line: New Expectations for Luxury Companies
TweetAugust 1, 2012TweetThe following is adapted from a talk delivered to the Sustainable Luxury Forum, held in Geneva in June 2013.In 2011, Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA), a UK...
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Size Matters
TweetAugust 14, 2013TweetThis article was first published in the South China Morning Post.
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