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posted by Admin  on December 9, 2009

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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posted by Admin  on April 16, 2009

Dr. Thomas Tang, Executive Director of independent social venture think tank The Global Institute for Tomorrow, talks about their innovative Global Young Leaders’ Program. More can be found on   http://www.globalinstitutefortomorrow.com/global_young_leaders_programme.
     
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Region(s): Southeast Asia


posted by Ivor  on April 7, 2009

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.
     
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posted by Admin  on January 30, 2009

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. Salim visited Brazil as a Global Fellow. While living, studying and working there he realised how one must be a global citizen of the world. Having worked with Cadbury’s in Brazil, he reemphasised the importance of competing with a global world, and how one must possess the social skills to live in this globalised world.
     

posted by Admin  on January 30, 2009

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.
     

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