Business

Business Innovations & Initiatives

What Management Practices Bring Inclusive Business To Scale?

Join us for a live webinar discussion at 2 pm UK time to explore how we can tailor management practices to help bring inclusive
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Might Slowing Down Be the Best Way to Accelerate Change in Business?

I’ve often considered being the odd one out as something of a badge of honour, particularly in a business context. Any aspiring intrapreneur needs to be comfortable with breaking free from the herd, even if others think you’re a little bit crazy.
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What Difference Can a Multinational Make? With the Right Management Practices in Place, a Lot.

The potential for multinational companies to tackle global issues such as poverty, climate change and gender inequality is immense. With their reach, they have the ability to transform low income markets through innovative business approaches and help lift millions – even billions – out of poverty. Inclusive business is one such model, but numerous internal barriers are preventing multinationals from adopting or scaling this approach.
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Businesses Share Employment Practices to Eradicate Poverty

On International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, global businesses collaborate to launch a new toolkit, Reducing Poverty through Employment. Members of the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition (GISC) share best practices for how to employ, empower, and improve the advancement prospects of those living in poverty, as a part of their direct and indirect workforces.​
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How Can Business Accelerate Career Opportunity for Entry-Level Workers to Ensure the Future of Work is Strong and Inclusive?​

Business Fights Poverty is partnering with Walmart on a recently-launched Challenge which asks how business can accelerate the upward mobility of entry-level workers in the future of work. ​
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In Memoriam: Tribute to Paul Polak – Market-Based Development Pioneer 1933 – 2019

On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we remember the life and impact of Paul Polak, Market-Based Development Pioneer, who sadly passed away on 12 October.
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How Can We Better Support Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Large Company Value Chains Through an Ecosystems Approach?

During Business Fights Poverty NYC, expert insights were shared contributing towards a Challenge to find out how business can take an ecosystems approach to support Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in their extended value chains.
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A Conversation on The Future of Work at the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit

To mark the launch of a new Challenge supported by Walmart on the Future of Work, Enrique Ostalé, Regional CEO of UK, Latin America and Africa at Walmart International, and Zahid Torres-Rahman, Founder and CEO of Business Fights Poverty joined Brad Staples, CEO of APCO at Concordia’s 2019 Annual Summit, to speak about International Future of Work Trends.
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There is No ‘I’ in team: How Collaboration and Innovation are Enabling Inclusive Businesses to Achieve Greater Social Impact

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,” said Sir Isaac Newton in 1675. Over three centuries later, his recognition that nothing great is achieved in isolation is more relevant than ever. Would Steve Jobs have been able to transform his ideas into reality without a team around him? What relevance would Google have had without those who invented the internet?​
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How Can Corporations Develop and Tailor Management Practices to Inclusive Business?

Join us for a live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore how we can tailor management practices to help foster inclusive business. This discussion will take place on 25 SEP 15:00 – 16:00 BST / 10:00 – 11:00 EDT
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Strengthening the MSME Ecosystem to Enable Business Growth and Social impact in Frontier Markets

MSMEs are vital drivers of growth for large companies and the lifeblood of communities, but many continue to struggle with multiple challenges. All those organisations with a stake in their success – large companies, governments, donors and funders, and NGOs – need to move towards a more holistic and joined-up approach to enterprise support with the goal of strengthening the underlying ecosystem in which MSMEs operate.
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How Can Corporations Develop and Tailor Management Practices to Inclusive Business?

Join us for a live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore how we can tailor management practices to help foster inclusive
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Banking The Unbanked

Be inspired by Business Fights Poverty NYC keynote speaker, Naureen Hyat, as she tells us about Tez Financial Services, a Visa Everywhere Initiative award-winning technological innovation, which is positioned to bridge the gap towards the financial inclusion of women in Pakistan.
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The Role Banks Can Play in Advancing Gender Equality

What happens when a bank makes a move towards achieving greater gender parity internally, combined with a razor sharp focus on the ambitions set out in SDG 5? Learn more in a conversation with Laura Hemrika, Global Head, Corporate Citizenship & Foundations and Patsy Doerr, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Credit Suisse.
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Future-Gazing Business Models: How One Company Uses Impact Measurement to Tackle Youth Unemployment​

Impact champions such as India’s Empower Pragati are turning the impact measurement field around. Rather than defining impact based on past activities, they are using ongoing business activities to guide how they chart the course for the future​
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Bringing the Lessons of Clean Sanitation Home

Having access to clean toilets is not just a basic human right – it’s also a health necessity. But in India, nearly 50 million people[1] lack access to adequate sanitation, increasing the risk of water contamination and diseases for these individuals.​
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Inclusive Business – Make or Buy?

Corporates venturing into low-income markets should ask themselves: could we buy one or several inclusive businesses to achieve our objectives? Our latest study reviews when investing instead of building makes sense, how to set up such investments and who can help.
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From Suicidal Depression to Social Entrepreneur: Creating a New $bn Industry for Rural Africa 

15 years ago I was working in the London advertising industry, promoting products I didn’t believe in for clients who didn’t appreciate it. I ended up asking myself ‘What am I doing with my life?’
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Raising the Purpose Banner (Again) is Only the Start

It is progress when communications and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) teams unite under the purpose banner*. But to deliver sustainable success for all it is critical that Executive Teams and their Board’s grasp the initiative and hot-wire purpose into the core of their business strategy.
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The Fix Up: Campaigning for the Right Reasons – Marketing Campaigns vs “Advocacy” Campaigns

We’re facing unprecedented times – a climate and environment emergency has been declared, displacement is a threat for more and more communities, civil space is increasingly restrictive, regressive girls’ and women’s rights, etc. – the need for everyone, brands included, to take action, has never been so urgent
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