Business

Business Innovations & Initiatives

Joan Bohan

This week, Katie Hyson, Business Fights Poverty’s Director of Thought Leadership talks with Joan Bohan. During this podcast you’ll hear Joan explain how she can be both Executive Finance Director and the founder of Dysnie Intrapreneur Venture at The Walt Disney Company.
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Make or Buy: When Should Corporates Invest in Inclusive Business Solutions?

Join us for a live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore when corporates should be investing in inclusive business solutions. This
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Make or Buy: When Should Corporates Invest in Inclusive Business Solutions?

Join us for a live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore when corporates should be investing in inclusive business solutions. This live discussion will take place on Thursday 5th September 2019, 15:00-16:00pm BST (10:00-11:00am EDT)
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How Can Businesses Unlock the Potential of Social Intrapreneurs?

How businesses can foster an enabling environment that unlocks the potential of social intrapreneurs to drive commercial and social innovation? We recently held two online discussions to explore this question as part of the Inclusive Business Boost series funded by DFID.​
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How Businesses Can Help Achieve the SDGs for Refugees

Following on from Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019, Daphne Jayasinghe of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), reflects on how businesses can best support refugees to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She discusses the role of job creation in driving forward SDG progress for refugees and the value of cross-sectoral collaboration. She also offers an opportunity for businesses to support refugee inclusion in the SDG Agenda ahead of the SDG Summit taking place in September this year.
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New Fund to Address Social Isolation Through Technology Closing Soon

Social isolation can affect people at any stage of their life and technology has a unique power to prevent this, bringing people together and redefining connection. Nesta Challenges’ Tech to Connect challenge seeks to offer civil society organisations support in helping to build more connected communities and reduce social isolation.
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Hamzah Sarwar

If you are innovating propositions from within business to create social and commercial value – this podcast is for you. If you are trying to scale the success intrapreneurs have across your organisation – this podcast is for you.
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How Can Business Advance Gender Equality Across the Value Chain by Engaging Men as Allies?

Men have a critical role to play in achieving gender equality. What is less clear is what this might mean in practice for organisations in their approach to advance gender equality. A new Business Fights Poverty Challenge will explore how businesses and organisations are advancing gender equality within their organizations and across the value chain (spanning agriculture, supply, operations, distribution, retail and marketing), by effectively engaging men as allies for gender equality. 
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Not Just a Women’s Issue

What are some of the causes and consequences of violence against women? What role do men play? How can men unite to ensure the world is safer for everyone: women and girls, men and boys? Dr. Jackson Katz emphasizes how violent behaviour is tied to prevailing definitions of manhood and how movements to end gender inequality and violence against women benefit everyone, men and women alike.
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Managing Human Rights Risks: Embracing a More Robust Approach to Human Rights Risks in Supply Chains

Oxfam will lead a panel at Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019 on its supermarket campaign, Behind the Barcodes, giving a platform to two influential supermarkets as well as perspectives from consumers, investors and a multi-stakeholder initiative on ethical trade. The top six UK supermarkets have already responded to the campaign. As more consumers and investors show their concern about these issues, more rapid progress will be made. ​
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How Harnessing Technology is Modernising Informal Retail in Emerging Markets to Deliver Social Impact

More than 61% of the world’s employed population – two billion people – earn their livelihoods in the informal sector, with 93% of the world’s informal employment occurring in emerging and developing countries. ​Yet informal retailers face complex challenges that prevent them from growing their business, stabilising the financial status of their business and their household income, and delivering a high level of service to their customers.
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PREVIEW #BFPOXFORD Connection Lunch: Oxford Researchers Look to Tackle Multidimensional Poverty with Social Enterprise sOPHIa Oxford

Researchers from the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) have launched sOPHIa Oxford, the University’s first social enterprise spinout, to bring a multidimensional poverty-fighting method created by OPHI to businesses to help efforts to tackle poverty.
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Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019 Connection Zone Lunch: Transcending Conflict to Fight Poverty

Conflict is a leading cause of poverty. Business can help bridge divides. Jerry Marshall is a co-founder of Transcend, Palestine, an “Impact Investment” technology company that transcends the Separation Wall by creating jobs unaffected by movement restrictions, building skills and hope, and developing relationships across the divide. The Transcend model could be adapted for replication elsewhere.
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PREVIEW #BFPOXFORD: Capitalism Needs You – As a Smart Influencer

I am sceptical of capitalism as it stands; anyone who had to blow the whistle on a boss for fraud will be, but I still believe that it’s the best system available to make the world work. Why? Because I believe it’s an effective system that’s being hijacked by a few really badly chosen incentives that are treated like first order principles – and that have diminished much needed governance.​
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The Improv Intrapreneur: How Learning to Let Go Could Offer Important Lessons for the Intrapreneurship Movement

“So, what do you do for a living?” For close to 15 years, I thought I had the best job in the world. “I lead Accenture Development Partnerships, the company’s ‘not-for-loss’ business”—to be empowered as an intrapreneur working within a large corporate, surrounded by a fabulous team, was a great privilege. Corporate Purpose, when genuine, can act as a lightning rod for talent.
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PREVIEW #BFPOXFORD Keynote Profile: Monique Ntumngia, Winner of the Visa Everywhere Initiative

Be inspired by #BFPOxford Keynote speaker Monique Ntumngia, as she tells us more about the Green Girls Organisation, an award-winning clean energy technological innovation, which is creating a route towards economic independence for women and girls in Africa.
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Purpose Goes Hungry Without Culture

Business Fights Poverty is currently asking: “How can we embed Purpose authentically into business.” But what can this look like in practice, and where do we go from here?
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Doing Business with Integrity is Good for Business and Society

This series of case studies forms part of the Business Integrity Initiative, an online hub that signposts companies to anti-corruption and human rights guidance and provides support to SMEs on anti-bribery and corruption compliance and prevention. The goal is to encourage companies to put integrity at the heart of their business strategies and practices. This in turn will help developing countries to attract long-term, sustainable investment while reducing the supply of bribes and human rights abuses by UK companies. The case studies include a number of companies that are benefiting from doing business with integrity; Forensic Pathways, Dints, MLM, and Coltraco Ultrasonics, all of whom are enjoying significant commercial success in frontier markets by putting integrity at the heart of their business model and relationships with commercial partners.
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The Journey of Total to Inclusive Energy Solutions

Over the last decade, many multinational corporations (MNCs) have attempted to set up inclusive businesses of one kind or another, with varying success. Despite good intentions and the investment of significant resources, few of these pilots have been successful and an even smaller proportion has reached significant scale.​
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Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019 Women’s Equality Zone Workshop: Preparing for possible new ILO regulation

CARE International UK are delighted to support the Business Fights Poverty Challenge on business and GBV and to host the Women’s Equality Zone at the Business Fights Poverty Oxford conference on 11 July 2019. ​
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