Tony Manwaring interviews Hunter Lovin. They discuss the issues around start think on new different business models, ones that are not based on production and consumption only generating large amounts of waste.

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Issue(s): Redefining Success - beyond accounting , Embedding Values , Creating Frameworks , Climate Change , Tomorrow's Global Leaders , Corporate Social Responsibility , Sustainability , Social Business , Global Financial Crisis , The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity , Tomorrow's Green Economy , Responsible Investment , Low Carbon Economy , Tomorrow's Owners

Region(s): North America

In this fascinating interview Anant Nadkarni, Vice President, Group Corporate Sustainability at Tata Group, discusses Tata's approach to corporate sustainability and business as a whole. In it he goes into his role in facilitating a council of managing directors of almost 45 major Tata Group compaines, which works to evolve ideas of best practice. He also compares modern ideas of CSR with Tata's approach where community is not just another stakeholder but the central purpose of the enterprise. To find out more about Tata Group please click here.

Playing Time: 10:33 (format: mm:ss)

Issue(s): Tomorrow's Global Leaders , What is a Force for Good company? , Tomorrow's Global Talent , Sustainability

Region(s): South Asia

Tag(s): BeyondTheBottomLine , CorporateSustainability , Entrepreneurship , Governance , TataGroup

The Global Fellowship Program was launched for young people to gain an understanding of what it will take to compete in, and contribute to the new global economy. We interviewed four young students who visited Brazil, India and China as a part of this programme, wherein they went to a local school, lived with local host parents and worked with a multinational organisation. As a Global Fellow, Louise visited Brazil for six weeks, where she worked with KPMG. She talks about the high ambition and commitment levels of the Brazilian students she studied with, and on the business side of the experience she reveals how the young generation now understands businesses of today are becoming more and more sustainability/csr focussed, and carry out pioneering work involving the local communities.

Issue(s): Tomorrow's Global Talent , Sustainability

Entrepreneurs in Action is a dynamic organization working with the public and private sector to develop the entrepreneurial and financial skills of the next generation.  EiA offer programmes and activities which unlock the untapped talents of young people, and work in partnership with successful companies to give students a real taste of enterprise through hands-on business challenges and learning programmes. Andreas is from Trinity school, Croydon, and worked through EiA with Wizz kids, a charity that helps disabled children. He headed his team in a project to develop a marketing scheme that would put Wizz kids in the public eye, and in the process discovered that everyone is talented. He also feels that it is important for business and society to co-exist, being corporate and social citizens to mutually benefit each other and be sustainable.

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Issue(s): Tomorrow's Global Talent , Sustainability

Entrepreneurs in Action is a dynamic organization working with the public and private sector to develop the entrepreneurial and financial skills of the next generation.  EiA offer programmes and activities which unlock the untapped talents of young people, and work in partnership with successful companies to give students a real taste of enterprise through hands-on business challenges and learning programmes.  From Trinity School as well, Jack worked through EiA with Body and Soul, a charity that gave them the challenge to try and come up with new ways to remove the stigma surrounding HIV Aids. There, he discovered that everyone in the project found a place to fit into, which reinforces the fact that everyone is talented. Talent is not only about good grades but about developing the social skills required for the workplace in the global world.

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Issue(s): Tomorrow's Global Talent , Sustainability