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Business Fights Poverty ... January 29 2020
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How Can We Measure, Manage and Get the Most From Our Social Impact?
Join us for a live written discussion with a panel of experts to discuss how businesses can measure, manage and get the most from their social impact. Live Panel taking place on Thursday, 27 February, 10-11am EST (3pm-4pm GMT)
Live Written Discussion, Thursday, 27 February, 10-11am EST (3pm-4pm GMT)
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Gender Equality is Everyone’s Business: How Can Companies Engage Men as Allies Across the value chain?
Due to launch in early February, a new report will reveal how companies have a unique opportunity to positively influence gender norms at scale by engaging #MenAsAllies to advance gender equality.
By Alice Allan, Challenge Director, Business Fights Poverty
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Demystifying Impact Measurement and Management for Inclusive Business
In the build up towards Business Fights Poverty's first Online Discussion of 2020, which focuses on Impact Measurement, learn more about the topic in this interview brought to you by Business Fights Poverty Content Partners iBAN and Business Call to Action.
Interview with Rabayl Mirza, Impact Specialist, Business Call to Action, by Dana S. Gulley, Editor-in-Chief, Inclusive Business Action Network
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The Real Meaning of ‘Business with Purpose’
Genuine 'stakeholder capitalism' must be fundamentally more than a shiny new logo upon swish marketing strategy with some philanthropy thrown in
By Amitabh Behar, Chief Executive, Oxfam India.
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT alt_text Why ESG is Core to Long-Term Success in Venture Capital
Venture capital (VC) is a relatively new asset class but is already having a transformative impact on large sections of the global economy.
By Liz Lloyd CBE, Chief Impact Officer, CDC Group
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Refugee Food Entrepreneurship: How the Business Community Can Support Sustainable Livelihoods
Food entrepreneurship is a growing area of livelihood creation that has gained traction as countries search for ways to address the refugee crisis. We provide recommendations for how the business community can provide support to refugee food entrepreneurs.
By Kristin Babbie Kelterborn, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan and Johanna Mendelson Forman, The Stimson Center
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SDGS alt_text The Triangle That Will Fix Capitalism
It is remarkable how the agenda in this 50th edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting has shifted towards calling for a move to stakeholder capitalism, as issued by Klaus Schwab in the new Davos Manifesto. The theme of the 2020 forum itself is: “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World”.
By Peter Bakker, President & CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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Is Davos Signalling the End of Business as Usual?
As world leaders in politics and business gather in Davos, IIED director Andrew Norton considers progress on the event’s ‘business with purpose’ agenda and asks how a progressive sustainability manifesto can omit climate change.
By Andrew Norton, Director, IIED
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The Company of the Future Must Do Well by Doing Good
By Feike Sijbesma Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM
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Colin Mayer CBE
Podcast Interview with Professor Colin Mayer CBE, Saïd Business School
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