Navigating the Trends in Business and Equity

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How has the business agenda on equity evolved over the past 20 years?

Hosted with the Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

Explore the evolution of the business and equity agenda with Harvard Kennedy School’s Corporate Responsibility Initiative. Look back at the big trends over the past two decades, and what light they can shed on how we navigate today’s complex challenges and transformative opportunities. Access deep insights and a dose of inspiration to guide you on your own journey.

Interviewees:

Jane Nelson, Founding Director, Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

Interviewer:

Zahid Torres-Rahman, Co-Founder and CEO, Business Fights Poverty

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Jane Nelson, Harvard Kennedy School:

“The core advance we’ve seen at the individual, sort of business agenda side is this integration into core business operations, products, services, technologies, business models, financing mechanisms, and value chains.”

Jane Nelson, Harvard Kennedy School:

“We also now increasingly have to look at ‘what’s the link between that equity agenda and the energy, transition, climate, nature agenda?’ … How do we both manage the sort of multiplier risks of those two agendas that are converging, and also where are the opportunities?”

Jane Nelson, Harvard Kennedy School:

“If we want the transformation, we need to have, these large scale collective action platforms. But I think we’ve got to think at an industry level what are the pre-competitive coalitions? And what can those coalitions do together?”