Business School

It’s time to set the boundaries of impact investing and say 'arrivederci' to those who are failing to support genuinely new solutions to pressing social issues, argues Italy’s leading venture philanthropy pioneer.

How can social enterprise support organisations help entrepreneurs learn – and what skills do they need most? Five lessons from the School for Social Entrepreneurs.

In this early evening discussion at The Gathering, social investors explored the challenges raised by Winners Take All, Anand Giridharadas’s book on the wealthy elites and social change

How healthy is the tech for good sector? Who’s helping to fund it? And what should we be focusing on when it comes to data? This session, hosted by Vinay Nair from Lightful explored some of the issues around social ventures in the tech space.

In this session, delegates discussed their biggest hopes and fears for social investment – in the form of potential headlines in Pioneers Post. Working in groups, they used collage to create a series of imaginary headlines, and then voted on their favourites.