2006 Results

Globalization, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

For the 2006 SustainAbility Forum, we posed five questions.

After an exchange half-way through the forum, we added three additional questions, 6a, 6b and 6c.

View the questions and responses here.

Question 1

In the period to 2017, do you see globalization (1) accelerating, (2) slowing down, (3) stalling, (4) going into reverse, or (5) taking a very different direction, and why?
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Question 2

Will the trends you envisage (1) encourage greater responsibility, (2) be broadly neutral, or (3) undermine the agenda, and why?
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Question 3

Thinking of some of the below-the-radar, somewhat surprising or even counter-intuitive trends now emerging in relation to globalization, what 2-3 trends do you think will become much more significant over the next decade?
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Question 4

What will be the implications, in terms of risks and opportunities for business?
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Question 5

And if—as in that memorable scene in the film of The Graduate, you were giving career advice to a bright student just leaving university or business school on how to make a contribution in the corporate responsibility or sustainable development fields, what would you advise, and why?
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Question 6a

What 1-2 things need to happen in the next 2-3 years to:
a. Switch globalization onto more sustainable lines?
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Question 6b

What 1-2 things need to happen in the next 2-3 years to:
b. Revive, reanimate and make real corporate responsibility?
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Question 6c

What 1-2 things need to happen in the next 2-3 years to:
c. Enhance our own personal contributions to shaping and driving the change agenda?
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