Leading voices from UK social enterprise, co-operatives and social investment have raised concerns over a “landmark” definition of the ‘impact economy’ that risks alienating a number of impactful organisations.
Impact Europe today revealed the name of its new chief: Angela Wiebeck, praised for “building bridges” between mainstream finance and impact over her two decades at UBS and Aquila Capital. She speaks to Pioneers Post from Brussels.
OPINION: There’s a message blowing across the Atlantic that the business of investment is to maximise return, and considering people and planet is woke nonsense. This argument is outdated, says GSG Impact chair Nick Hurd.
INTERVIEW: Putting a price tag on a company’s social and environmental impact is the only way to demonstrate its true profit and loss, believes Sir Ronald Cohen, who is now focusing on driving forward the next accounting revolution.
Mission-led businesses are direct descendants of pirates, contends social entrepreneur Sam Conniff Allende. His new book urges us all to ‘be more pirate’.
In the first instalment of his new column for Pioneers Post Quarterly, Bob Thust highlights how governance "can be exciting, liberating, and progressive" - and why it needs to be.
Sophi Tranchell tells Pioneers Post why she believes equality is the biggest issue facing the modern world, and why it is important to pick perfect partners.
Our WISE100 are never short of wisdom. This time Bonnie Chiu tells us what advice she would give to her 21-year-old self, and why she wants businesses to diversify.
