Alice Tepper Marlin talks about how she moved from financial analysis to developing a single global measurement system for workplace standards.She does not describe how her company's approach works, but she talks clearly about a multistakeholder approach (so to some this might seem like a bit of a sales pitch) but she talks passionately about the importance of every sector of society working together: how activists can help and inspire business to do the job really well, working with Trades Unions to solve problems in a realistic and achievable manner.She describes how a multistakeholder approach means a better deal for all those stakeholders: employees and businesses, investors and civil society.

Issue(s): Creating Frameworks , How to be a Force for Good company

Tag(s): WorkplaceStandards

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

Bill Gates makes a insightful speech on the social inequalities that we are surrounded by today, and hoe technology can make a difference to the one billion people in the world who live on less than one dollar a day. According to an article in Time Magazine, governments and non profits play an integral role in helping them, but it is mainly corporations that have the resources and the technology to help in fulfilling social, ethical or environmental goal. This is where his idea of ‘Creative Capitalism’ comes in. The question is then, is it different from what the social business ideal is? Something to think about… 

Issue(s): How to be a Force for Good company , Social Business

Region(s): North America

Tag(s): CreativeCapitalism , SocialBusiness

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.

Playing Time: 03:14 (format: mm:ss)

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

Muhammad Yunus meets UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and describes the activities and success of microfincance provided by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He suggests that Africa would benefit from this model and he also goes on to explain ‘Social Business’ - business with social rather than purely financial objectives

Issue(s): Social Business

Region(s): West Europe , Africa , South Asia

Tag(s): Africa , Bangladesh , Microfinance , SocialBusiness