Peter N Lewis, Founder and Lead Consultant at Principled Consulting and Tania Ellis, author and business innovator, shared their views on moral challenges for the economy and their visions for future business principles at the Caux conference for Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy on Wednesday.

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.  

A new kind of charity is shaking up the business world and revamping the concept of ‘giving back’ – because this kind of charity is in fact not charity at all. The new ‘philanthrocapitalists’ – also known as venture philanthropists, new donors, high-engagement philanthropists or social venture capitalists – don’t talk about ‘funding applications’ or about ‘giving back to […]

Long before terms like “values” and “sustainability” became business buzzwords in the West they were already being implemented by an Indian corporation: The Tata group, founded by Jamsetji N. Tata in the late 1890s, is today going on over 130 years of emphasizing themes of governance, sustainability, values and ethics.

Ethical and green investment has never been more popular. Ethical Investment Research Services (EIRIS) report on their website that there is now seven billion pounds invested in UK green and ethical retail funds – compared to 1.5 billion 10 years ago. EIRIS contributes the growing success of socially responsible investment to increased consumer interest in […]

Der var engang, hvor humanister og forretningsfolk var to vidt forskellige grupper med meget lidt tilfælles. Sådan er det ikke længere. Humanisterne bliver kaldt sociale entreprenører og skaber virksomheder, der tjener sociale formål lige fra bevarelse af miløjet til bekæmpelse af fattigdom.

Socialkapitalismen er i gang med at gøre sit indtog. Sociale entreprenører og kommercielle virksomheder med et samfundsengagement (CSR) navigerer imellem at tjene godt og gøre godt. Men de har forskellige mål og bevæggrunde, og dermed forskellige tilgange til at skabe økonomisk og social værdi. Begge har dog brug for hinanden, uanset om de er sat […]

The business model of the future rests on an alliance between economics and humanism. Social entrepreneurs and visionary business leaders are showing us how to do good. THIS IS NOT CHARITY. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.”    

Dygtig business. Det sker ganske enkelt, fordi forbrugerne i dag kan føre politik med indkøbskurven. I et vidensamfund har vi både viden og bevidsthed til også at stille en række krav til produkterne. Er det aflad eller ærligt ment, når svenskere kan gøre benzinen CO2-neutral ved at betale lidt ekstra for benzinen på Statoil-stationerne og […]

Fremtidens forretningsmodel hviler på en alliance mellem økonomi og humanisme. Socialkapitalismen er i gang med at gøre sit indtog. Bæredygtig udvikling er det fælles pejlemærke, som sociale entreprenører eller blot forretningsdrevne businessmænd og -kvinder tager udgangspunkt i. På den måde skabes konkurrenceog sammenhængskraft. Til gavn for både bundlinje og menneskehed.