Former Unilever CEO says new economic order will emerge from current crises and company boards have the responsibility to shape it for the benefit of all stakeholders – rather than for "share speculators".
How can impact investing claim to drive systemic change when its leadership mirrors the same patriarchal and exclusionary structures it seeks to dismantle – and how can we start changing this?
Ten young education advocates from around the world have begun a six-month programme in journalistic storytelling, delivered by Pioneers Post on behalf of global children’s charity Theirworld.
As social investment network AVPN turns 10, its first Asian boss explains how she's translating the foreign concept of venture philanthropy, why the “cloak of joint decision-making” is so powerful – and why she was an unlikely candidate for CEO.
The Brisbane hosts of the 2022 Social Enterprise World Forum aim to attract 2,500 in-person visitors plus another 100,000 online at global event next September.
In spite of the challenges of organising a global event during a pandemic, the 2021 Social Enterprise World Forum attracted more than 3,000 participants and is hailed as a success by organisers.
At the Social Enterprise World Forum 2021, Doughnut Economics Action Lab’s Erinch Sahan urges the social enterprise movement to stop seeing itself as existing on the margins.
DCMS confirms civil society brief remains there, but minister is still TBC. Meanwhile, prime minister Boris Johnson's 'levelling up' project gains political ground as economist Andy Haldane heads levelling-up taskforce and Kruger gets junior role.
President of UK business group urges firms to switch to positive purpose as influential Future of the Corporation project calls for overhaul of company director role. But, asked if profit or purpose comes first, business leaders are evenly split.
The education offered to future business leaders, accountants and financiers is “deeply acultural, secular and exclusive”. Faith-based approaches could guide a new model – one that nourishes trust, respects nature and builds a sustainable economy.
BSC says it wants to hit £15bn of social investment by 2025. Stephen Muers tells us why that means going beyond “small and fiddly” investments, why dormant assets cash may not be needed – and why recent criticism isn't a reason to change course.
