Business

Business Innovations & Initiatives

Why Going All in for Sustainability Makes It More Likely a Business Will Encourage Its Intrapreneurs

In their new book “All In – The Future of Business Leadership,” David Grayson, Chris Coulter and Mark Lee argue that businesses can no longer afford to be hesitant or half-hearted about sustainability. They have to be “All In!”
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Partnerships Cultivate Change in the Niger Delta

Mamadou Beye, Government and Public Affairs General Manager at Chevron discusses Chevron’s Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) partnership approach in the Niger Delta, with insights on how the GMoU community impact model has empowered conflict resolution and encouraged locally-developed economic initiatives
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Animal Medicine on the Move: Delivering Agro-Vet Services to Pastoralists

TechnoServe share insights from their Innovation in Outcome Measurement (IOM) project— a two-year program to develop and test cheaper, better, and faster ways of collecting key agricultural data— partnered with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Kenya Markets Trust (KMT) to evaluate creative new ways of providing commercial agro-vet services to pastoralists.
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8 SSIR Articles on Businesses Pursuing a Social Mission

Stanford Social Innovation Review curate eight articles from their archives- specifically for Business Fights Poverty—that offer insight into how companies can successfully orient themselves around purpose, both internally and externally, to reap its many rewards.
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Galvanizing Businesses to Generate Positive Social Impact Through Impact Sourcing

The Impact Sourcing Challenge is the first of its kind to specifically focus on escalating impact sourcing as a way to increase employment and career development opportunities for disadvantaged workers.
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Walking Beyond Tokenism

The link between Fair trade and climate change is complex but interconnected. By subscribing to the former, you help alleviate the effects of the latter. Pushpanath Krishnamurthy has taken 30 million steps in support of climate justice and the fairtrade movement. Read about his remarkable journey so far.
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From Produce to Profits: How Mobile Technology Is Strengthening the Livelihoods of Spinach Growers

Technoserve share their case study on innovative models for creating a profitable agribusiness that builds wealth in small farming communities of East Africa. Learn more about Kenyan agribusiness Akili Group, a firm using information and communication technology to improve upon the traditional out-grower models.
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Want More Intrapreneurs in Your Organisation?  Create the Right Culture

An update on the findings so far, of the Intrapreneur Systems Challenge, launched earlier this year with the objective deepening our understanding of the features that need to be in place at a systemic level within an organisation to catalyse and support more innovative and impact-driven initiatives getting off the ground and reaching scale.
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Sizakele Marutlulle

This week Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Sizakele Marutlulle, Founder and CEO of communications strategy company: Marutlulle +CO. Sizakele talks to us in anticipation of her keynote speaker role during the Business Fights Poverty flagship 2018 Oxford conference.
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Henriette Kolb

An Interview with Henriette Kolb, Head of the Gender Secretariat at the International Finance Corporation. Henriette takes listeners on a journey through the challenges of addressing gender inequality, before explaining why the IFC is focusing on balancing the roles of carers, creating access to finance for female entrepreneurs and understanding how women can get ahead in the sharing economy.
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Two Weeks to Go and Acumen Explore Investing in Impact

Business Fights Poverty’s flagship Oxford conference takes place on 18th July, with just two weeks to go we are pleased to introduce Acumen as our partners leading the Impact Investing zone.
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The Intrapreneurship Ecosystem

A toolkit that sets out the key components of the intrapreneurship ecosystem and suggests practical steps that companies can take to strengthen the supporting environment for social innovation inside their organisations. With The League of Intrapreneurs, DFID, CEMEX and the BMW Foundation.
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Corporate Social Innovation: Prototyping, Piloting and Iterating

Know-how videos and tip sheets to inspire and jump start any new products, services, or business models to create social or environmental value, as well as revenue. Produced with Barclays, Pearson and Cemex, and in partnership with The Intrapreneur Lab and Be Inspired Films.
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Low-Income Families and Private Education

A guide for investors to direct their resources and influence towards proven solutions that strengthen quality in education and address the particular challenges of inclusivity that arise from a fee-based model. With Endeva, BRAC, CDC Group and DFID.
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CARE Examine the Importance of Gender Equity in Business

Gender equality is high on the corporate agenda, but behind the hashtags, the empowering t-shirts and glossy photographs, are we really creating change and tackling the barriers to gender equity and inclusive business? CARE, who will host the Women’s Equity and Inclusivity Zone at Business Fights Poverty Oxford, examine the importance of gender equity in business.
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The Road of Change: Circular Economy in the Automotive Industry

Kaiho Sangyo, a Japanese automobile recycling company, joined Business Call to Action in December 2017 with a pledge to establish an eco-friendly auto recycling value chain in Brazil. As part of this commitment, it will develop the skills of 15,000 recycling engineers and expand 20 existing recycling businesses, including local garages and repair shops.
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What is a Refugee-Inclusive Business?

As part of the Business and Refugees Challenge, we have been exploring some of the barriers to mobilizing more business action to support refugees’ resilience in low to middle income countries. In the process, we have uncovered numerous examples of innovative business ideas, ambitious commitments, and genuine efforts to support the needs of refugees.
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Exploring Last-Mile Distribution and BoP Marketing

In the second article, introducing you to the experts and topics we’ll be exploring during our Business Fights Poverty, flagship conference in Oxford on 18th July, we introduce you to inclusive distribution, brought to you by BoPInc (& Every1Mobile), Hystra, and Practical Action.
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Why Cash Is a Problem For Businesses Around The Globe

The Better Than Cash Alliance share their new report “The Future of Supply Chains: Why Companies are Digitizing Payments”. Drawing on data and interviews with around 40 companies and organizations, the report shows how digitizing supply chain payments is having a profound impact on global businesses, economies and individuals.
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Professionalising African Motorcycle Taxis: From Vitamins to Painkillers

Rwanda-based motorcycle taxi company SafeMotos is taking the app-based transport service idea, made famous by Uber, a step further by ensuring its product is based on the local needs of both passengers and drivers. SafeMotos joined Business Call to Action with a pledge to ensure more female drivers; to reduce road accidents and to increase incomes.
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