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  • Appetite for Change

    Reinventing the Global Food System

    23 Jun 2011 – Report

    Today's global food system is inherently unsustainable, and must be completely transformed. Appetite for Change was conceived to identify what change is needed, and the role the corporate sector must play in making it happen.

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  • Pharma Futures 3

    Emerging Opportunities

    23 Feb 2009 – Report

    Emerging markets are now significant players in global trade. Yet they are also very different than mature markets and more complex to manage. For the pharmaceutical industry in particular, they have often presented both challenges and opportunities.

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  • Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World (Idéia Socioambiental)

    14 Jun 2008 – Article

    John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan on how mainstream business, financial, and political leaders can best come to grips with emerging trends in value creation.

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  • The Race to Sustainable Mobility (Sustainability Tomorrow)

    An interview with Mr. Dave Berdish, Manager, Ford Motor

    12 Feb 2008 – Conversation

    When many think of Ford, they think trucks and SUVs. What does the company mean by 'sustainable mobility'? Is it car-centered, and is this just a more palatable way to sell more vehicles without improving their environmental performance?

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  • Coming of Age (Director)

    01 Feb 2008 – Article

    Business should be one of the driving forces behind tackling climate change and world poverty, but that requires learning from innovators already at work.

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  • Issue Brief: China

    New landscapes

    18 Dec 2007 – Article

    China is a populous country of diverse cultures and regions undergoing monumental change. The pace of change is so rapid that tensions and instability are inevitable. For each of modern China’s many achievements, there are complex trade-offs.

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  • Country Study: China

    New Landscapes

    27 Nov 2007 – Report

    As levels of trade and foreign direct investment soar, China is also confronted by polarising inequalities of wealth and opportunity, a schism between rural and urban development, and environmental degradation of national and global significance.

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  • India's Third Liberation (China Dialogue)

    06 Sep 2007 – Article

    India hopes to build an economy that benefits the poor while protecting the environment, reflecting an important shift in the business landscape, writes John Elkington. Can China join them in an “axis of business sustainability”?

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  • Time to Bop in Brazil and India (Época Negócios)

    26 Jun 2007 – Article

    A new report from the World Resources Institute (WRI) explores the nature and scale of markets at the base of the pyramid (BOP)—and looks at how successful businesses are moving to meet their needs.

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  • Pyramid Power (China Dialogue)

    10 May 2007 – Article

    There are important similarities in India and China's rapid growth, write John Elkington and Jodie Thorpe. As businesses now turn their attention to the base of India's economic pyramid, there may be important lessons for China.

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  • How Business Can Change the World

    14 Jun 2006 – Article

    Geoff Lye writes on the powerful economic and moral case for businesses to take an active part in working towards the UN Millennium Development Goals.

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  • It's the Economics, Stupid (Grist)

    Has the corporate-responsibility movement lost sight of the big picture?

    09 May 2006 – Article

    Perhaps it's time to ask ourselves whether the language of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has blinded us to looming planetary and civilizational risks.

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  • Radar: The Creativity Issue

    The Creativity Boom

    10 Apr 2006 – Radar Archive

    This edition of _Radar_ explores how some leading companies and thinkers are trying to engage the left, creative sides of our brains in solving challenging social and environmental issues.

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  • Pyramid Schemes (Grist)

    A little time in the lab could teach big business how to help the poor

    14 Mar 2006 – Article

    With billions of poor people in the world, there is surely a growing case for bringing poverty "into the laboratory," to study with rigor what alleviates or exacerbates it.

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  • Issue Brief: India

    Ancient civilisation, largest democracy

    24 Feb 2006 – Article

    Whether companies consider India a source of well trained but affordable labour or look upon it as a market, one thing is clear – no company can afford to ignore it.

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