Just imagine for a moment that you don’t have a toilet. Scary, isn’t it? This is the reality for over 2.6 billion people on the planet, who lack access to even the simplest latrine. Not only would this make your life inconvenient, it is dangerous. Peepoople’s solution to this problem is the invention of a single use, biodegradable and self-sanitising Peepoo […]

Apopo trains the widely present African Giant Pouched Rat to detect landmines and tuberculosis, which at the same time as it saves lives, provides local jobs for the economically disadvantaged. The Apopo case is illustrative of how social entrepreneurs create value: they develop social innovations that meet needs that are either overserved because the existing solutions are more complex than required – or not served at all because […]

Are social business and CSR two sides of the same coin? And do you have to be driven by ethics and morality in the pursuit of bridging solutions to social problems with business? Both social entrepreneurs and commercial companies have the opportunity to create social value, regardless of what their motives and primary goal may be.

Er social business og CSR to sider af samme sag? Og skal man være drevet af etik og moral for at ville forene løsningen af samfundsproblemer med forretning? I sidste måned var ophavsmanden til mikrolån og den sociale virksomhed Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, æresgæst ved en konference i København, hvor jeg var inviteret til en […]

Tania Ellis, der driver foredrags- og konsulentvirksomheden The Social Business Company, giver her sit bud på de væsentligste CSR-trends i 2013. Den første er “Sæt formål først og tjen penge alligevel”. Læs om alle fire trends her.

Community, participation, transparency, quality and sustainability. In our quest for sustainable business models great inspiration can be gained from cooperative business values.

Fællesskab, medindflydelse, åbenhed, kvalitet og bæredygtighed. I vores søgen efter bæredygtige forretningsmodeller er der god inspiration at hente i de kooperative virksomheders værdigrundlag. En kooperativ version 2.0 kan bidrage til, at vi kommer ud på den anden side af krisen med et sundere og mere ansvarligt erhvervsliv og en stærkere samfundsøkonomi.

Nye tider skaber nye behov – og nye behov kræver nye løsninger. Den sociale megatrend, der bygger på etik, ansvarlighed, bæredygtighed og mening, er i fuld gang med at ændre spillereglerne for måden at drive forretning på – og det skaber innovative muligheder for både at tjene godt og gøre godt. Tania Ellis fortæller om trenden […]

In many Asian countries, passionate entrepreneurs are working to find new sustainable solutions to concrete social and environmental challenges. Focusing on corporate responsibility and social entrepreneurship is far from just a Western practice.  

While many Western countries – including Denmark – are struggling with the setbacks of the financial crisis and looking for new answers to questions about how to ensure global competitiveness and continuous economic prosperity, the growth-train is rolling through Asia. So when my book about sustainable business and social innovation, The New Pioneers, came out in Thai, […]