INTERVIEW: How do you ensure that the money shareholders make from investing in your business is used for positive impact? A pioneering ‘equity for good’ deal backed by Heineken and Paul Polman aims to avoid unintended negative consequences.
Social enterprise raises funds from National Geographic Society, Heineken and former Unilever boss in deal that requires any future gains to be reinvested for impact.
Influential ex-boss of Unilever calls on next generation of business leaders to get out of their “comfort zone of mediocrity” – and says being a small business with limited resources is no excuse.
Business leaders and academics back Company Purpose (Amendment) Bill to 'displace shareholder primacy' in British board rooms, put forward by UK law firm Bates Wells.
Writing in Pioneers Post Quarterly's Autumn edition, Peter Holbrook, chief executive of Social Enterprise UK, sees government reform, greater transparency and boardroom leadership as the way to a more equal society.
